A well-researched update where the accuser walks back some of his allegations:
http://observer.com/2018/05/george-takei-accuser-scott-brunton-changed-his-story-of-drugs-assault/
http://observer.com/2018/05/george-takei-accuser-scott-brunton-changed-his-story-of-drugs-assault/
"There are drugs today that may do this, but they did not exist [in 1981]," Nelson said.
I shared the toxicologists' observations with Brunton, who admitted that this made him feel better. He was probably right all those years when he thought he was just drunk. He would still never know for sure, but, Brunton said, referring to Takei, "it makes him a little less sinister."
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I asked him to clarify the issue. "Did he touch your genitals?"
"You know…probably…" Brunton replied after some hesitation. "He was clearly on his way to…to…to going somewhere."
We shared a pause.
"So…you don't remember him touching your genitals?"
Brunton confessed that he did not remember any touching.
Oof.One activist I interviewed while writing this story told me, "If good people like George Takei get mistakenly swept up in the net of #MeToo, perhaps that's a sacrifice they should be willing to make for the cause."