Crystal Mangum reveals reason she lied about being raped by three Duke lacrosse players

The woman at the center of the Duke University lacrosse rape case has finally admitted she lied when she accused three young men of sexual assault in 2006.

Crystal Mangum, from Durham, North Carolina, came into the spotlight in 2006 when she accused the trio of raping her at a party where she was hired as a stripper.

The 46-year-old mother of three is currently in prison after being convicted of manslaughter for stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife in 2011.

It was from the prison she was talking to Let’s talk to Katan independent content creator who released an interview with her on Thursday.

There, Mangum admitted that she had made the whole thing up.

“I testified falsely against them by saying they raped me when they didn’t and that was wrong, and I betrayed the trust of many other people who believed in me,” she said.

Mangum even admitted that the three men “trusted me not to betray their trust.”

‘[I] made up a story that wasn’t true because I wanted confirmation from people and not from God.’

She claimed that it was her search for validation that led her to become a stripper, despite having a college education.

Mangum then asked the three men she accused – David Evans, Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann – to accept her apology.

“I want them to know that I love them and that they didn’t deserve that, and I hope they can forgive me.

“I hope that they can heal and trust God and know that God loves them and that God loves them through me and let them know that they are valuable and that they don’t deserve that.”

Mangum made it clear that she has tried to find religion in prison, saying she mainly reads the Bible to “get through the day.”

‘You can have all that [growth] in Jesus He loves us just as we are. He is enough and we are enough.”

She claims she would describe her time in prison as a time of “growth.”

However, she said she had “no regrets” and that everything happens because of God.

The case became one of the most racially charged in recent history and ended explosively when the prosecutor was disbarred and the young men were found innocent.

The chilling case began on March 13, 2006, when three of the four co-captains of the Duke men’s lacrosse team hosted a party for their teammates at their off-campus home.

The group paid a total of $800 for a performance by two exotic dancers, including single mother Crystal, who was studying at nearby North Carolina Central University.

All but one player on the lacrosse team were white and in the aftermath, Crystal, who is black, made a series of accusations against three of the team members.

She accused Evans, Seligmann and Finnerty of raping and sexually assaulting her in the bathroom.

And the ensuing fallout set off a firestorm across the country — highlighting racial and socioeconomic divisions at the elite university and beyond — in what became known as the Duke Lacrosse case.

The coach was forced to resign and the university canceled the remainder of the season.

After he was charged, David said: ‘You have all been fed some fantastic lies, and I look forward to seeing them unravel in the coming weeks, as they have in recent weeks… The truth will come to light. ‘

The students hired lawyers, but the situation became cloudy when Crystal claimed she could not remember the exact details of what happened that night.

The DNA evidence did not match any of the 46 white players on the team and she eventually recanted her statement.

She later said she was unsure she had been raped, but insisted some form of sexual assault had taken place LA times said.

The tide eventually turned against prosecutor Mike Nifong, who had “overzealously defended his case in the media.”

The boys’ lawyers advocated for the North Carolina State Bar to intervene and charges were filed against a sitting district attorney for the first time in history.

It was decided that Nifong had been too candid and had concealed the crucial DNA findings from the investigation; he was later suspended.

As a result, the case was then transferred to an alternate prosecutor, Roy Cooper, who dropped charges against the players just four months later. Cooper recently served two terms as Democratic governor.

He declared the students “innocent” and labeled Nifong a “rogue prosecutor.”

Ultimately, the case did not go to trial and the three players received $20 million each in a settlement with Duke.

The house has since been demolished and the university has spent more than $100 million in legal fees, settlement costs and other expenses to maintain its “brand,” the university said. Vanity fair.

Crystal, who later released a memoir titled The Last Dance For Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story, was never charged with making false accusations.But her legal problems would only worsen.

Just a short time later, in February 2010, she was convicted of misdemeanor charges for starting a fire that nearly razed her home with her three children.

In a videotaped police interview, Crystal told officers that she got into a confrontation with her then-boyfriend, Milton Walker, and burned his clothes, smashed the windshield of his car and threatened to stab him.

The one-story duplex had heavy smoke damage, but no one was injured, according to a news release from the Durham Fire Department.

But there was one last tragic twist in the story.

On April 3, 2011, she and her 46-year-old boyfriend, Reginald Daye, who had been dating for about a month, had become involved in a heated argument after she was allegedly caught flirting with another man.

She claimed Reginald punched her at the time before grabbing the kitchen knife and stabbing him in self-defense.

Crystal told the court: “He straddled me, hit me and then started choking me. I couldn’t breathe. My head hurt really bad.’

“I was just trying to survive and it felt like Reginald was trying to kill me,” she added in her testimony.

The mother eventually stabbed him in the side of the chest in his apartment.

In a call to emergency services immediately after the stabbing, Reginald’s cousin told the operator: ‘It’s Crystal Mangum. The Crystal Mangum. I told him from the damn beginning that she was trouble.”

Reginald died 10 days later at Duke Hospital due to complications from his injuries.

It took the jury just six hours to reach a unanimous verdict.

In 2013, Crystal, then 34, was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years in prison for manslaughter.