Andrew Tate choked me until I passed out during horror rape then told me ‘I own you’, says Brit woman
A BRITISH woman has alleged that Andrew Tate put his hand down her throat until she passed out while they were having sex.
The woman, who was 20 at the time, claims she “didn’t consent” to the violent intercourse, which Tate denies.
Now 30, the alleged victim has spoken out for the first time on the horror attack that caused her to lose consciousness, she claims.
She woke up to find Tate still having sex with her, telling the BBC: “I didn’t consent to it”.
The former kickboxer, 36, “vehemently denies” the allegations.
A spokesperson for Tate told BBC that he does not condone violence of any kind towards women and that all sexual acts he had taken part in were consensual.
Evie – not her real name – reportedly met the disgraced influencer at bar in Luton before he was famous.
She told Newsnight that she was a student and he was a club doorman when they engaged in consensual sex in August 2014.
The pair allegedly met up again in late November or early December, which is when she claimed the aggressive sexual encounter occurred.
Evie claimed that Tate “put his hand on my throat and strangled me”, and when she returned to consciousness he was “still having sex with me”.
The alleged abuse is said to have continued that evening as the self-styled misogynist subjected her to threatening behaviour, even saying he would kill her.
“He kept saying: ‘I own you, you belong to me’,” she said. “All throughout the night he was being fairly aggressive and saying horrible things.”
At the time, Evie claimed that she didn’t report it as she hadn’t realised she was the victim of a rape.
However, now she wants to tell her story to spread awareness about Tate and to encourage more women to come forward with their own experiences.
Evie warned the influencer: “You’re going to be held accountable for what you’ve done.”
She is the latest British woman to join a planned lawsuit with three others against Tate to pursue civil claims for damages.
Tate is currently under house arrest after he and his brother Tristan were released from prison in Romania over allegations of human trafficking and rape.
The controversial influencer is already facing fresh controversy regarding his comments in an explosive BBC interview last week.
Viewers were left outraged after he insisted one of his alleged victims was fictional and sternly shot down damning questions.
The combative conversation turned to a British woman who has spoken out against Tate under the pseudonym Sophie.
She alleged she was slapped, strangled and subjected to sexual violence after being lured to Romania while speaking with BBC Radio 4 in February.
The Brit claimed she was pulled in by the promise of romance only to be pressured into working as a cam girl and even said she had been coerced into branding her body with Tate’s name.
But the self-professed guru dismissed the discussion surrounding Sophie and accused the BBC of “inventing” her testimony.
“Sophie hasn’t gone to court, Sophie doesn’t exist,” he furiously claimed.
Romanian prosecutors were left fuming over the “outrageous” interview and scolded the broadcaster for even giving the misogynist an opportunity to speak.
A judicial source told The Sun Online it was disgraceful.
A woman’s rights activist also slammed the BBC’s decision to sit down with him.
Dr Charlotte Proudman, the director of women’s organisation Right to Equality, said victims she works with have told her they felt “re-traumatised” by watching him “minimising his abusive behaviour.”
“The BBC aired Andrew Tate’s comment that an abuse victim’s allegations against him are ‘imaginary’ which is tantamount to gaslighting if he is found guilty,” the campaigner told inews.
“Where is the duty of care for victims?”
The social media personality has hit back by releasing an “unredacted” version of his almost 40-minute long interview, claiming that the BBC attempted to do a “hit job” on him.
Taking to Twitter, Tate ranted that the BBC had been “begging” him for an interview “daily” since he left jail and “then they sat down, threw all of this away and attacked me instantly, an ambush.”
After he dominated the chat, the BBC chose to finish the interview abruptly.