Anne looked up from the "Statement" and said, "But Rama explicitly told us at the meeting in Malibu that he *did* take out a hand gun that night with Annie."
"Maybe," I replied, "Rama is playing off the difference in meaning between *holding* and *brandishing* [waving] a hand gun."
"What Annie perhaps did not know," Anne added, "and what Rama fails to mention, is that he nearly *always* slept with a gun by his bed."
Rama writes:
Ms. Eastwood continued to attend my seminars
for another year after our night together.
This would not seem to be likely behavior on
the part of a person who was allegedly forced
to have sex at gunpoint.
"No," I thought. "But perhaps on the part of a person who has been psychologically and sexually manipulated and abused."
Rama continues:
Now, five years after the event and in concordance
with a group of persons affiliated with Cult
Awareness Network, she has decided that a gun
was present during our encounter and that she
was forced to have sex with me. Her story is
absurd and untrue.
... Lisa Hughes has asserted in a variety of
interviews that I forced her to take L.S.D.
while she was a guest at my home during the
summer of 1987. She also alleges that in
some way, which is not fully clear in her
accounts, I coerced her into having sex with
me. She further alleges that I bought her
presents and that while she was on L.S.D. I
tried to convince her that she was possessed
by 'demons.'
I never gave Lisa Hughes L.S.D. nor did I,
as Lisa Hughes asserts, take L.S.D. with her.
For a period of time during the summer of
1987 Lisa and I traveled together. I purchased
some clothing for her, and some luggage which
she desperately needed.
I recalled, from press accounts, that Rama had bought Lisa $17,000 worth of clothes. I also recalled how, in 1984, Rama had told me I was mentally ill when I tried to return the new car he had bought for me.
During that summer while Lisa was a guest
in my home, Lisa and I were frequently joined
for dinner, videos and an occasional soccer
game by our mutual friend Mr. Richard Loftin.
Shortly before I started spending time with
Lisa, a close female friend of hers was killed
in a brutal knife attack in a parking lot in
Santa Barbara. Lisa told me that she 'knew'
that the killer was also stalking her. She
told me that he was following her on campus
and knew where she lived.
Lisa shared a small house in the Santa Barbara
area with several men and one other woman. She
told me that she was certain that the killer had
come into her house when no one was home. She
told me that this was possible because her
housemates never locked the doors. She said
that it was only a question of time before she
would be killed.
Out of concern for her welfare I gave Lisa
some money to rent an apartment in a gated
high security condominium complex so that she
would be safe. Just before Lisa graduated the
killer was apprehended and I did not give the
matter any more thought until she brought it
up over the summer.
During the summer Lisa told me about the demons.
Her first revelations occurred in the early part
of the summer. As the summer progressed
'demons' became all that she talked about.
One evening, in the presence of Mr. Loftin, she
said that she was convinced that demons had
been directing the killer in Santa Barbara.
She also asserted that my home was filled with
demons.