Rolling Stone writer: 'Startled' when woman backed off story

Sunday, October 23, 2016

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The author of the discredited Rolling Stone magazine article about a woman's claim of being gang-raped at a University of Virginia fraternity said she was "startled" when the woman seemed to back off her story after its publication.

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