Chanel Miller, Sexual Assault Survivor, On The 'Immense Relief' Of Going Public
She was long known only as the victim of Brock Turner, who got a lenient sentence for assaulting her. Now, Miller tells NPR she can "finally exist in the world without having to hide anything."
After four years in the shadow of Brock Turner, the man who sexually assaulted her, the woman once known in the media as "Emily Doe" has taken her name back. In her new memoir, Know My Name, Chanel Miller has introduced herself to a world that knew her only as a victim at the heart of a nationwide criminal justice controversy — or, in some cases, labeled her much worse.
And she says that moment, when at last she revealed her identity this month, came as "an immense relief."
"It almost felt like a bittersweet birthday," Miller told "in that I was able to finally exist in the world without having to hide anything."
