The Detroit News · Feb 7, 2018
Travis Walton’s accuser speaks up on pub altercation
Buy PhotoThe woman who alleges former Michigan State basketball player Travis Walton hit her at an East Lansing bar, leaving her briefly unconscious, said she wanted to go to the media when the incident occurred in 2010 but was strongly urged not to by an East Lansing city attorney.
“I didn’t think it was morally right to not speak up,” Ashley Thompson, a Grand Blanc native now in medical school in Virginia, told The Detroit News in a recent phone interview. “I was advised by the (lawyer) to not talk to the media, to not talk to Michigan State, to not talk to Travis.
“I absolutely wanted to go to the media, but he basically told me it was going to interfere with the trial.”