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Clare previously told the Times <\/em>in September that the “mere sending” of a list of questions for fact-checking purposes “has caused additional trauma and extreme physical and emotional harm to a survivor of sexual assault, which is inexcusable.\u201d<\/p>\n The Times<\/em>, he said, had been “duped by a fabulist,” that telling a story about abuse was “not proof or corroboration.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Griffin’s editor at Penguin Random House imprint The Dial Press told the Times<\/em>, \u201cBook publishers are not investigators. This is Amy\u2019s story. We trust her, and all of our authors, that they are recounting their memories truthfully.\u201d<\/p>\n Jane Doe’s lawsuit alleges, per the Times <\/em>and AP, that when she <\/em>was assaulted at an eighth-grade dance, she was wearing a dress she borrowed from Griffin, and it was stained from the attack when she returned it.<\/p>\n In The Tell<\/em>, Griffin wrote of loaning a classmate\u2014identified by the pseudonym Claudia\u2014a dress for a cotillion dance. After she started MDMA therapy, Griffin felt the urge to reconnect with “Claudia,” according to the book, and when they met up she asked if Claudia had also been abused by the teacher Griffin accused of assault, and Claudia said no.<\/p>\n