The assault happened at a skating camp in 2008 when Wagner was 17 and Coughlin was 22, she says.
saying that she was sexually assaulted by John Coughlin, a fellow Olympic figure skater who died by suicide in January.
Wagner describes being at a house party where she drank alcohol for the first time. She had to sleep over because no one could drive her to her hotel. While asleep, she says Coughlin came into her bed and started kissing her neck."I pretended to be deep asleep,," Wagner says."He didn’t." Coughlin then groped her body, and she continued to pretend to be sleeping, but she couldn’t hide her tears.
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