- Sun Dec 09, 2018 4:01 pm
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CHICAGO — Some consider him to be the most famous scientist in the world. But now, Neil deGrasse Tyson is facing more accusations of sexual misconduct.
One of the accusers is from Chicago and shared her story with WGN’s Gaynor Hall.
Tchiya Amet El Maat said it was 1984. She was 23 and wanted to become an astronaut. She and Tyson were grad students in astrophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. One day after class, she says she went to his apartment.
“He asked me if I wanted a glass of water and I was like sure. And then I woke up naked on his bed,” she said, “I didn't know what had happened, what was happening and I couldn't move.”
She said he raped her.
One of the accusers is from Chicago and shared her story with WGN’s Gaynor Hall.
Tchiya Amet El Maat said it was 1984. She was 23 and wanted to become an astronaut. She and Tyson were grad students in astrophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. One day after class, she says she went to his apartment.
“He asked me if I wanted a glass of water and I was like sure. And then I woke up naked on his bed,” she said, “I didn't know what had happened, what was happening and I couldn't move.”
She said he raped her.
- By johnforbes