nonstop speculation whether the incident happened as jackie recalled, or if it happened at all, but before rolling stone published the story, another one of jackie s friends tells cnn jackie was concerned. was she apprehensive about the article? terrified. i remember her absolutely terrified of the repercussions. reporter: repercussions started against the fraternity, the house vandalized. some of that backlash shifted to jackie. there do appear to be holes in her story, no survivor i ve ever spoken to tells a straight linear account of their story for years and years after therapy. reporter: in the article jackie says she was brought here by a fraternity brother for a brother at the phikapaa psi house. he took her upstairs to a dark room where she was attacked and raped by seven men while two others looked on. rolling stone says jackie escaped down a side staircase
the alleged victim in the uva sexual assault scandal hired a lawyer as rolling stone issues a second apology for its botched report on the alleged gang rape of a young woman known as jackie. the magazine says it doesn t blame jackie and takes full responsibility for reporting inconsistencies in hits story o her friends say the story has remained consistent the whole time. everything jackie told me is exactly what happens published and exactly what jackie told me. reporter: annie forest is one of the first team jackie spoke to about the alleged gang rape inside a university of virginia fraternity house. the graphic details became the focus of a rolling stone explosive story. she talked about how she s healing and overwhelmed she is, how she didn t see any of this coming. reporter: since rolling stone issued an apology to readers friday there s been
and out a side door. the attorney for the fraternity says there s no side staircase in the house but there are side doors and this has an ex-peeror side staircase. the fraternity attorney records show there was no party the night the gang rape allegedly occurred and the man who jackie says lured her to the room was never even a member of the fraternity. rolling stone revised its apology over the weekend to say it takes responsibility for any inaccuracies in the story, and the blame does not lie with jackie. on monday, the university announced it s establishing a committee to study cultural issues here at the university of virginia including sexual assaults and binge drinking. cnn, charlottesville, virginia. our thanks to sarah for that report. consider this number, as of august 13th, 76 u.s. universities were under investigation for title 9 sexual