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WNBA player Justine Pissott has alleged she was the victim of a sexual assault as she voiced her support for the student who has accused seven Cornell University fraternity brothers of rape. Pissott, a 22-year-old who plays for the Las Vegas Aces, revealed she was once drugged and raped during a lengthy statement posted on Instagram on Tuesday. It comes after the Ivy League university was thrust into the spotlight after a lawsuit was filed earlier this month by an unnamed female student, alleging that multiple members of the Chi Phi fraternity drugged and raped her on the night of October 19, 2024. In the suit, filed in New York earlier this month, a woman identified as Jane Doe claimed she was plied with alcohol, pressured to take ketamine and repeatedly sexually assaulted for hours. The 101-page complaint alleged she was 'gang raped' after one of her alleged attackers sent a Snapchat message telling fellow fraternity members there was 'free p***y' upstairs. Pissott, who played college basketball at Tennessee and Vanderbilt, admitted the Cornell scandal had been 'hard for me to see' and had resurfaced her traumatic experience. 'As someone who has been drugged and rap**, the Cornell 7 situation has been really hard for me to see. It hits a place in me that I don't talk about often,' the WNBA rookie wrote. 'When something like this happens to you, it doesn't just end when that night ends. You carry it with you. The confusion, the pieces you can't remember, questioning yourself, blaming yourself, and trying to understand how someone could take advantage of you when you weren't even able to protect yourself.' 'And then you see people questioning survivors. Asking why they didn't speak sooner, why they stayed quiet, why they acted a certain way afterward. But unless you've been through it, you really don't understand what trauma can do to a person.' 'There is no "right" way to respond to something that never should've happened to you in the first place.' Pissott added that she was not looking for sympathy but wanted to speak out about her experience to make other victims 'feel less alone.' 'My heart truly hurts for the survivor in the Cornell 7 situation,' Pissott continued. 'I pray God covers her through all of this. I pray He protects her mind and her heart while something so painful and personal is being discussed by people who don't even know her. I pray He gives her strength on the days where it feels like too much and reminds her that what was done to her will never define who she is.' 'I don't speak about my experience for sympathy. I speak about it because I know how lonely this kind of pain can feel. And if sharing even a small part of my story makes another survivor feel less alone, then it's worth it.' 'To her and every survivor carrying something similar, I see you. I'm praying for you. And I pray we continue creating a world where survivors feel safe enough to use their voice without being torn apart for how they survived.' #justinepissot #WNBA #womensbasketball #cornell #cornell7