Ex-Girlfriend Weeps in Testimony Versus Derrick Rose

The ex-girlfriend of Derrick Rose, who accused the NBA star and two of his friends of raping her struggled to keep her emotions in check on Tuesday as she tried to make sense of a night she hazily remembers.

The Knicks player watched with not much reaction as his lawyer cross-examined the woman. Her vague recall of the incident coupled with her testimony that conflicted with what she disclosed during her disposition left her exposed to Rose’s lawyer’s aggressive cross-examination.

After she visited Rose in his Beverly Hills mansion in August 2013, the woman said in a soft voice that she was intoxicated and felt like she had been drugged.

She paused in her testimony and wept silently at the witness stand. She then started to connect a night of drinking at the basketball star’s place with the questioned incident early the next morning at her apartment.

Rose and his friends Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen argued the woman willingly had sex with all three. The three men denied the charges in the lawsuit.

The woman testified that after meeting Rose at a Hollywood nightclub during the 2011 NBA lockout, she started dating him on and off for over 20 months – a relationship the defense has called “friends with benefit.”

Attorney Mark Baute, one of the defense lawyers, refuted her belief that they had a future together.

He established that until that night in August, she never attended any of his games and Rose had never been to her place.

After they broke up in early summer of 2013, she hadn’t been in contact with Rose until the morning of August 26. That day, she texted him a photo of herself and said he was her inspiration.

Rose invited her over that night and made suggestions to bring a friend along for a threesome.

Liquid courage

The woman said she began drinking vodka while waiting for a driver who was late to pick her up. She said she had some wine in the car and had 3 1/2 shots of tequila at Rose’s mansion.

She said she used to drink tequila with Rose and felt like it provided her strength.

The woman felt the opposite, though, and said she felt she was drugged, an implication that the defense denied.

She left Rose’s mansion after her friend had an argument with one of his friends. There was a vague memory of a cab driver helping her up to her apartment. She threw up and passed out on the bed afterwards.

The woman said that she remembered waking up and seeing the three men in her room. In one of her flashes, she said that she was trying to roll off the bed. Rose was undressed at the edge of her bed, pulling her toward him.

She said she was confused about what had happened as she woke up the following morning. She had lubricant around her legs and her black dress around her neck. The woman also saw a used condom on the bedroom floor.

According to her, she didn’t report the incident to the police. This was due to embarrassment and fear that her family would find out.

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