Woman says she had to press Herschel Walker to pay for abortion he wanted - The Washington Post

“When I talked to him, I said, 'You request to nonstop — I can’t spend to wage for this," the pistillate said successful 1 of respective interviews with The Washington Post successful caller days, adding that she besides told him: "We did this too. Both of america did this. We some cognize however babies are made.”

The woman, who lived successful the Atlanta country astatine the time, said she became large erstwhile she was unemployed and had little than $600 successful her slope account. Walker sent a $700 cheque astir a week aft the process via FedEx, the pistillate said. The Post reviewed an representation of the cheque that was printed connected an ATM slip, with Walker’s sanction and an code matching wherever helium lived astatine the time.

A transcript of the cheque and deposit gaffe reviewed by The Post includes Walker’s signature and name. It was deposited 9 days aft the pistillate said she had an abortion. The Post has reviewed a receipt for $575 astatine a women’s aesculapian halfway that day. She said she did not cognize precisely however overmuch an termination would outgo and estimated the magnitude she told Walker she would request based connected online searches.

The extended treatment implicit outgo for the process to extremity the archetypal gestation has not been antecedently reported. The pistillate and the idiosyncratic she confided successful some spoke connected the information of anonymity to support the privateness of themselves and their loved ones.

As antecedently reported, the aforesaid pistillate besides says Walker pressured her to person an termination again erstwhile she became large a 2nd time; she chose to springiness commencement to her son, who is present 10. The pistillate sued Walker successful New York successful 2013 for kid enactment aft helium allegedly refused to supply it, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the case, who spoke connected the information of anonymity to sermon delicate details. Walker, who present says helium is simply a multimillionaire, said successful that lawsuit that helium made lone astir $140,000 per year, the idiosyncratic said.

The caller revelations deepen questions astir Walker’s attraction of women and his children, arsenic good arsenic the struggle betwixt his nationalist absorption to termination and his alleged backstage behavior. Walker and his run person denied the woman’s claims that helium wanted her to person 2 abortions, and Walker initially claimed helium did not cognize the pistillate who was making them.

“I cognize thing astir immoderate pistillate having an abortion,” Walker said to blimpish vigor big Hugh Hewitt past week aft the Daily Beast archetypal reported the allegation astir paying for an abortion. “Had that happened, I would person said it, due to the fact that it’s thing to beryllium ashamed of there."

Walker is moving connected a level that opposes termination successful each cases, without exceptions for rape oregon incest oregon to support the beingness of the mother. He has said helium would ballot for a nationalist ban of the process aft 15 weeks of pregnancy. He besides has besides criticized Black men for being absent parents — a disapproval present leveled astatine him by the pistillate and by his grown lad by different mother, Christian Walker. Herschel Walker has acknowledged having 4 children with 4 antithetic women.

Three women, including his archetypal wife, person told constabulary that Walker threatened them successful assorted ways. Walker has not disputed his archetypal wife’s account, but helium oregon his run person denied the others.

The Daily Beast archetypal reported the woman’s relationship of Walker paying for the outgo of an termination and the New York Times aboriginal reported the woman’s relationship of Walker’s unsuccessful efforts to transportation her to person different abortion. The pistillate has told The Post that those reports accurately described her experiences.

The pistillate was initially supportive of Walker’s Senate campaign, but said that changed aft helium announced that helium would prohibition each abortions.

The pistillate described an on-and-off-again narration with Walker; the lawyer who represented her during the kid enactment lawsuit said successful a connection astatine the clip that it lasted from from November 2008 to September 2011. In the weeks earlier and aft the 2009 abortion, the idiosyncratic she confided successful astatine the clip recalled her explaining she had to property Walker to nonstop funds, which the idiosyncratic remembered interpreting arsenic an effort to marque the erstwhile shot subordinate instrumentality immoderate accountability for his actions.

“She was like, ‘I’ll bash it arsenic soon arsenic you nonstop the check,'” recalled the person. “And helium was similar ‘I sent the check.’ And she was like, ‘It’s been 7 days. I didn’t get it.’”

Walker reported successful August 2022 that helium had income and assets worthy betwixt astir $27 cardinal and $59 million, according to fiscal disclosure forms.

Walker is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael G. Warnock successful November. The contention is close, polls show. Both parties spot Georgia arsenic a cardinal battleground successful the larger combat for the power of the Senate. Walker and Warnock are acceptable to statement connected Friday successful Savannah.

Antiabortion groups person rallied to Walker’s broadside arsenic person immoderate nationalist Republican leaders. Some Republicans successful Georgia person said they interest that they erred successful elevating an unvetted nominee.

On Tuesday, Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.), who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ala.) appeared astatine a rally for Walker successful Georgia. Former president Donald Trump has had discussions astir coming to Georgia for a rally successful the last weeks earlier Election Day.

A cardinal portion of Walker’s transportation is that helium has struggled with intelligence unwellness and recovered from it, a communicative of redemption that his squad believes volition resonate with Georgia voters. He authored a publication published successful 2008 called “Breaking Free,” successful which helium details convulsive thoughts helium had portion struggling with Dissociative Identity Disorder. He besides says these episodes ended aft helium said helium received nonrecreational assistance for his condition.

In 2009, astatine slightest 2 women that Walker dated were pregnant, according to nationalist records successful 1 lawsuit and 3 radical acquainted with the different pregnancy. One gave commencement to a lad successful February 2009, nationalist records show. Later that year, the pistillate who spoke to The Post began making repeated calls to Walker to archer him she was pregnant.

When Walker yet responded, helium told the pistillate that it was “not a bully time” for a baby, she said. “We should bash this the close way,” helium added, implying that the mates could person a planned gestation immoderate clip successful the future, according to the woman. The woman said she did not cognize helium had conscionable fathered a kid who was calved successful February 2009.

The pistillate agreed to person an abortion, and said she asked him repeatedly for wealth to screen the cost. The pistillate had little than $600 successful her checking account, according to her relationship and an ATM receipt. Amid the Great Recession, she had mislaid her job, she said.

Days after the procedure, Walker sent a $700 cheque on with a get-well paper that features a drafting of a steaming cupful of beverage and included a handwritten enactment from Walker. “Pray you are feeling better,” signed, “H.” It was the archetypal clip Walker had ever sent wealth to the woman, she said.

The paper was seen arsenic an acknowledgment of the abortion, according to the pistillate and 2 different radical with contemporaneous memories of it.

The pistillate besides supplied a transcript of receipt for $575 from the Atlanta Women’s Medical Center, showing she had paid for the process with a Visa card on Sept. 12, 2009. And she had a pamphlet from the halfway detailing “Post-operative Instructions.”

The 2nd clip she became pregnant, successful 2011, Walker besides did not respond instantly to her calls, she said. Walker again said she should not person the baby, according to the pistillate and her confidant. Again, Walker said it was “not a bully time” for a baby, she said.

But the pistillate said she did not privation to acquisition a 2nd termination and felt destiny had intervened, with the 2nd gestation arsenic a “sign” that she should rise the child.

Walker sent occasional checks to the pistillate during her 2nd pregnancy, she said, but the wealth didn’t travel connected immoderate regular docket truthful she could not beryllium connected it. “It was conscionable whenever helium felt similar getting astir to it,” the pistillate recalled. Eventually the pistillate took Walker to tribunal to get kid support, records show.

“The child’s parent is simply a postgraduate pupil … struggling to marque ends meet,” according to a May 2013 connection astir that lawsuit from her lawyer astatine the time, Andres Alonso. “Unfortunately, Mr. Walker has frankincense acold decided not to instrumentality afloat fiscal work for the attraction of his alleged son.”

Walker was ordered to wage $3,500 a period successful kid support, according to the idiosyncratic acquainted with the case. He besides paid a lump sum of $15,000 to assistance screen infirmary costs connected to his son’s commencement and aboriginal kid care, the idiosyncratic said. The kid enactment payments were based connected Walker having an yearly income of astir $140,000 a twelvemonth successful 2013, the idiosyncratic said.

The fiscal disclosures Walker filed this year for his Senate tally amusement yearly income of $3 cardinal from H. Walker Enterprises, LLC, an entity that helium reported being worthy betwixt $25 cardinal and $50 million.

Walker’s behaviour toward his household has travel up repeatedly during the campaign. Walker has been harshly captious of absentee Black fathers, erstwhile calling the behaviour a “major, large problem.”

“The begetter leaves successful the Black family. He leaves the boys unsocial truthful they’ll beryllium raised by their mom,” Walker said in a 2021 interview. “If you person a kid with a woman, adjacent if you person to permission that pistillate — adjacent if you person to permission that pistillate — you don’t permission that child.”

But helium had lone publically discussed 1 of his 4 children until the Daily Beast published a study earlier this twelvemonth that helium had fathered a 2nd child.

He subsequently acknowledged 3 sons and a daughter, and pointed to a signifier helium filled retired up of his May 2018 assignment to the President’s Council connected Sports, Nutrition and Fitness, wherever helium identified each of them arsenic grounds helium was not hiding anything. They see a lad calved successful 2012; a lad calved successful 2009, Christian Walker, 23; and a girl successful her 40s. Herschel Walker’s girl has her ain children, making him a grandfather.

Walker has had precise constricted in-person interaction with his 10-year-old lad contempt repeated invitations to beryllium portion of his life, including lone a fistful of in-person meetings, according to the pistillate and her confidant.

Walker’s big son, a blimpish media influencer, has also recently been publicly critical of his begetter for not being present. “You’re not a ‘family man’ erstwhile you near america to [have enactment with] a clump of women, threatened to termination us, and had america determination implicit 6 times successful 6 months moving from your violence,” Christian Walker wrote connected Twitter aft the Daily Beast nonfiction published. “[H]ow DARE YOU LIE and enactment arsenic though you’re immoderate ‘moral, Christian, upright man.’ You’ve lived a beingness of DESTROYING different peoples lives. How situation you.”

The Post has not independently verified Christian Walker’s claims. Herschel Walker was joined to his parent Cindy Grossman from 1983 to 2002, according to nationalist records.

The mothers of Walker’s different children declined to remark oregon did not respond to messages.

Grossman said successful 2 2008 tv interviews that Walker held a weapon to her caput and threatened to termination her. Walker does not quality the relationship but has said helium does not retrieve it.

Another woman, a erstwhile Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, contacted the constabulary successful May 2002 and accused him of stalking her. A 3rd woman, Myka Dean, told constabulary successful 2012 that Walker threatened to “blow her caput off” erstwhile she told him she wanted to day different people. Walker’s run has denied some of those accounts.

In May 2021, Walker joined his existent wife, Julie Blanchard, a pistillate with whom helium has had a semipermanent relationship.

Aaron Davis, Shayna Jacobs, Hannah Knowles, Cara McGoogan, Eva Ruth Moravec, Lori Rozsa and Michael Scherer contributed to this report.