--- title: Rachael Denhollander on Cost of Accusing Larry Nassar description: Rachael Denhollander said coming forward with allegations against Larry Nassar cost her friends, her church and "every shred of privacy." canonical: https://time.com/5121048/rachael-denhollander-nassar-op-ed/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-26T20:15:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T08:47:59.535Z article:section: Sports og:title: First Larry Nassar Accuser Says Going Public Cost Her Almost Everything og:description: Rachael Denhollander said she lost friends, her church and "every shred of privacy" og:url: https://time.com/5121048/rachael-denhollander-nassar-op-ed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt498acf3107e8ab29/6988f96bab6d77a9886b1793/rachael-denhollander.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3840 og:image:height: 2160 og:image:alt: GYMNASTICS-USA-ABUSE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: First Larry Nassar Accuser Says Going Public Cost Her Almost Everything twitter:description: Rachael Denhollander said she lost friends, her church and "every shred of privacy" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt498acf3107e8ab29/6988f96bab6d77a9886b1793/rachael-denhollander.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # First Larry Nassar Accuser Says Going Public Cost Her Friends, Her Church and 'Every Shred of Privacy' > Sponsored content. 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Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to go on the record accusing Dr. Larry Nassar of sexual misconduct, closed out an exhaustive, week-long trial against the former USA Gymnastics physician._  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Jan 26, 2018 8:15 PM UTC Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to go on the record accusing Dr. Larry Nassar of sexual misconduct, closed out an exhaustive, week-long trial against the former USA Gymnastics physician.  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Jan 26, 2018 8:15 PM UTC [Rachael Denhollander](http://time.com/5118145/rachael-denhollander-larry-nassar-victim-statement/), the first woman to publicly accuse disgraced USA Gymnastics team doctor [Larry Nassar](http://time.com/5119793/larry-nassar-gymnastics-parents-guilt/) of sexual abuse, said that coming forward with her allegations cost her friends, her church and “every shred of privacy.” In a New York _Times_ op-ed published on Jan. 26, Denhollander [wrote](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/opinion/sunday/larry-nassar-rachael-denhollander.html) that “absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the pain of being the first to go public with my accusations.” The Indianapolis _Star_ [first reported](https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2016/09/12/former-usa-gymnastics-doctor-accused-abuse/89995734/) allegations against Nassar made by Denhollander and an unnamed woman in September 2016\. Denhollander, a former club gymnast, said that she began seeing Nassar when she was 15 after sustaining a back injury. Since the story was published, over 150 women — including Olympians [Aly Raisman](http://time.com/5110121/aly-raisman-larry-nassar-court/), [Simone Biles](http://time.com/5103550/olympic-champion-simone-biles-was-sexually-abused-by-team-doctor/) and [McKayla Maroney](http://time.com/5109011/mckayla-maroney-larry-nassar-victim-impact-statement/) — have said they were also abused by Nassar. On Jan. 24, Nassar was sentenced to between [40 and 175 years](http://time.com/5116872/judge-larry-nassar-sentencing/) in prison. In her op-ed, Denhollander, now an attorney, detailed how difficult it was to come forward. She said she sometimes avoided grocery stores so her children wouldn’t have to see her allegations on newspapers and was asked questions “about things no one should know when I least wanted to talk.” “Yet all of it served as a reminder: These were the very cultural dynamics that had allowed Larry Nassar to remain in power,” she wrote. “I knew that the farthest I could run from my abuser, and the people that let him prey on children for decades, was to choose the opposite of what that man, and his enablers, had become. To choose to find and speak the truth, no matter what it cost.” In order to protect other women, Denhollander said we need to hold institutions that enable abusers accountable and support and encourage victims to speak out. “Fear of jeopardizing some overarching political, religious, financial or other ideology — or even just losing friends or status — leads to willful ignorance of what is right in front of our own eyes, in the shape and form of innocent and vulnerable children,” she wrote. “Ask yourself: How much is a child worth?” ## Transcript Larry is a hardened and determined sexual predator, I know this first hand. His ability to gain my trust and the trust of my parents, his grooming and carefully calculated brazen sexual assault was the result or deliberate, premeditated, intentional, and methodological patterns of abuse Patterns that were rehearsed long before I walked through Larry's exam room door, and which continue to be perpetrated, I believe, on a daily basis for 16 more years until I filed a police report. And while Larry is unlikely to live past his federal sentence, he is not the only predator out there, and this sentence will send a message about how seriously abuse will be taken. So I ask, how much is a little girl worth? How much priority should be placed on communicated that the fullest weight of the law will be used to protect another innocent child from the soul shattering devastation that sexual assault brings. Larry meticulously groomed me for the purpose of exploiting me for his sexual game. He penetrated me, he groped me, he fondled me, and then he whispered questions about how it felt. He engaged in degrading and humiliating sex acts without my consent or permission. And Larry enjoyed it. Larry sought out and took pleasure In little girls and women being sexually injured and violated. MSU, we have been telling our stories for more than 18 months. And you have yet to answer a single question I have asked. Every time I repeat these facts about the number of women who reported to employees at MSU and were silenced you respond the exact same way. You issued a press statement saying there was no cover up because no one who heard the reports of assault believed that Larry was committing abuse. You play word games, saying you didn't know because no one believed. I know that. And the reason everyone who heard about Larry's abuse did not believe it is because they did. Not listen. They did not listen in 1997, or 1998, or 1999 or 2000, or 2004, or 2014. No one knew, according to your definition of know, because no one handled the reports of abuse properly. Victims were silenced, intimidated, repeatedly told that it was medical treatment and even forced to go back for continued sexual assault. I was subjected to lies and attacks on my character, including very publicly by Attorney Shannon Smith when I testified under oath. I was being attacked for wanting fame and attention. For making up a story to try to get money. And Your Honor, since these attacks were made on my character, very publicly on public record, I would like to take an opportunity briefly now to correct them. You may preceed. Thank you. Out of the two women in question that day, Miss Smith and I, Who were attempting to communicate their either questions or answers. I would like to note that only one of us was taking pictures of the courtroom on her cellphone. Only one of us posed for the press and said, quote, I feel like I should say cheese. And out of the two of us Only one of us was making money off her court appearance that day. I don't feel the need to say anything else. I think I've communicated [ INAUDIBLE ]. 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