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After celeste reported her sexual assault, she quickly sensed that her fellow marines did not believe her, and she began to spiral. for the first time in her life, she checked into a mental hospital on base. the doctor diagnosed her with ptsd and described eight different medications. i started going to a darker hole with depression and started thinking suicidal thoughts. one night, i decided to overdose on pills. celeste only has vague wrecks recollection of what happened later that night, after an onduty officer entered her barracks to check on her. he looked like my sexual assaulter. he walked up to me. i freaked out and i guess i grabbed his neck. ....
This is a leadership issue, and we will lead. now, we wait, to see if actions follow words. the path to reform has maddeningly slow. but several months after we completed filming, celeste came one step closer to justice. there has been a big break in her sexual harassment claim against her superior officer. other survivors have come forward against him with their own allegations of abuse. for celeste, it s validation that she s not in this fight alone. and now, she can take steps toward healing. come on, celeste. hey, sub, how are you doing? as a combat veteran kenny knows first hand the restoring power of equine therapy. and for the first time, he s introducing it to his daughter. all of these horses here are similar to us. they have ptsd just like we do. i have been working with him for many months. so he s able to be pet like this. this is going to help you ....
But she didn t anticipate what would happen with a fellow marine who she considered a friend. one weekend in 2020, celeste and a friend took a sight seeing trip off base. he had this girl he wanted to see. they met on tinder. after we ate we were going to go to some club, but we decided to get a hotel. it was a two-bed room. the girl fell asleep and it was just me and my friend. and we were just talking. and we had a few drinks. i struggle with sleep a lot. and i took sleeping medicine. and it hit me really hard. all i remember is just falling asleep. that morning, celeste had a horrible feeling and asked her friend if anything had happened. he brushed her off. but his story soon changed. ....
I started yelling, i am being sexually assaulted. they told me to calm down but i didn t calm down. the next morning celeste woke up in the psychiatric hospital. she says no one talked about what happened the night before. a month later, she attempted suicide again. this time, the marine corps locked her up in a military jail own as the brig. celeste was charged with violating military code on the night she o.d. d and assaulted three officers. did you even know why you were being sent to the brig? i didn t really know why because in my mind i had a ptsd episode. upon arrival, celeste tells me she was kept in solitary confinement for three days. that s when i knew it was intentional. what was intentional? the retaliation. after she reported they were intentionally trying to silence her. if you try to speak up in ....
This military, you are going to be reprimanded one way or another. would you say that the military intentionally tries to discredit victims? i don t know if i would say intentionally, but i would say habitually. it is the social retaliation. it is professional retaliation. so while you are telling your story over and over to investigators, suddenly now you are a problem child because you are experiencing trauma and you are being sent to mental health to see if they can force you out that way. celeste kept copies of the letters she wrote to command and her medical records. i wanted to see for myself how the marine corps was handling her case. after multiple suicide attempts, after being diagnosed with ptsd, after being prescribed so many medications, after a psychotic episode, rather than getting her help, she was sent to jail. what i find in some of the pages makes it sem like either no one was paying attention or they ....