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Jun 21, 2021 · Kat O’Brien wrote in an essay published Sunday in The New York Times that she was attacked as she talked to the player in his hotel room some two decades ago when she was 22 years old, writing about sports for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
- 'It Was Traumatic and Scary'
- 'It Felt Like Nothing Had Gotten Better'
- 'I Felt Humiliated and Ashamed'
- 'Emotionally Exhausting'
- It's Not Their Fault
O'Brien was a 22-year-old sports reporter in 2002, a recent Notre Dame graduate who had been a sports writer for the university's newspaper. She was good at her job, really good. She landed a position with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas. Besides covering high school sports, she took on other assignments, the kind a young reporter takes on to...
Far from the world of sports journalism, now working for Mastercard, O'Brien opened up in a New York Times piecein June. No fear of being marked, losing her job or not being hired in sports because she is "that woman," she decided to tell her story. O'Brien is not naming the player she said raped her. "I choose not to name him because it would only...
O'Brien grew up in Davenport, Iowa, in a Catholic family and went to Catholic grade school. She was a star student all through high school. With her scores on the SAT and ACT, O'Brien had a ticket to the nation's top schools. She chose Notre Dame. She had played sports growing up. But at Notre Dame she focused on academics, going to the gym, runnin...
After leaving the Star-Telegram in 2007, O'Brien moved to New York and covered the Yankees for Newsday. In 2009, she earned her MBA. She stayed in sports for a couple of years, working for ESPN on the business side of things. Then she got a job with Samsung, then Mastercard. Having her story published in the Times, doing follow-up interviews, telli...
O'Brien knows she can't prevent individual acts of violence. If someone wants to rape another person, her story isn't going to stop that, she said. "What I hope I could have an impact on is changing the overall environment, the way people act," she said. The sexual assault on O'Brien in a hotel room, while the worst she faced, wasn't the only sexis...
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Jun 20, 2021 · Updated June 21, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET. A former New York sportswriter has revealed in an explosive emotional essay how she was raped by a Major League Baseball player in a hotel room 18 years ago.
Jun 22, 2021 · Crime News. ‘I Blamed Myself:’ Former Sports Reporter Says She Was Raped By MLB Player 18 Years Ago. "I didn’t say it out loud to myself, write it down, speak his name or allow myself to think about it beyond wishing hard that it would not have happened," Kat O’Brien wrote in a New York Times essay. By Dorian Geiger Jun 22, 2021, 2:35 PM ET.
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Jun 23, 2021 · Former sports reporter Kat O'Brien has opened up about being raped by a Major League Baseball player when she was 22 years old.O'Brien -- who graduated from UPenn's Wharton School of Business -- kept the incident a secret until now, when s…
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Sep 25, 1986 · Dr. O'Brien is upset. As she confides to her friend Rosa Villanueva (Priscilla Lopez), the head nurse in surgery, Kayo is 28 years old and not beyond feeling lonely. But, she adds, in another one ...
Jul 19, 2020 · O’Brien left sports for entertainment in 1997 when signed on to be the co-host of Access Hollywood. He remained with Access Hollywood until 2004. At that point, O’Brien moved on to host the newly formed Insider. He held that position until 2008. Pat O’Brien’s battle with substance abuse and its affect on his work
