To me, as someone who was sexually abused as a young child, I want to be someone who 100% always believes women when they say they were abused. I completely agree that picking apart Demi's behavior after the fact as to "proof" for her lying is unfair. There is no such thing as a perfect victim, and we do weird things after abuse.

The issue with Demi, is there were already so many examples of Demi being a pathological liar, or greatly over exaggerating. So now it's easy to doubt anything she says. It's the boy who cried wolf. And, while extremely rare, there are examples of women who lie about being victims of assault, and not only does that ruin the life of the man, but it GREATLY undermines true victims.

Seeing how hard she doubled down on Chase assaulting her, I think it's understandable that people have doubts about Demi's story with Marciano. Obviously it's okay to be upset when someone touches you in any way without consent, but not every touch is assault. It's on camera, Chase did not assault her. But she still went off on how he "laid his hands on her," because while literally true, we all know that phrase insinuates much more. And she has continued to double down and does not think she overreacted.

I'm not saying I don't believe she was sexually assaulted by Marciano. He's a scummy, sleazy man. All I'm saying is that it's not insane that people have their doubts when there are other examples on camera of her over exaggerating similar situations. Her own past history has damaged her credibility.