♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, a second woman speaking out, accusing herschel walker of pressuring her to have an abortion. >> he was very clear that he did not want me to have the child. and he said that i would not be safe and that the child would not be safe. >> now calling out the staunchly anti-abortion georgia senate candidate. >> that is the height of hypocrisy. the height of hypocrisy. >> with a week to go before election day, walker is fighting back. >> i'm done with this foolishness. i've already told people this is a lie. plus remembering chadwick boseman. his widow speaks with whoopi goldberg in her first television interview about his superstardom

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vote yes on 30. ♪ thanks for joining us. tonight, you're about to meet a woman who says it took a lot of courage to show her face to our cameras. but she says she's coming forward in the name of the truth. as herschel walker, the anti-abortion senate candidate from georgia, calls her a liar. tonight, why she says she's ignoring the potential backlash to tell us her story. >> i've kept this to myself for 30 years. i protected him. and i wanted this to remain private. for obvious reasons. >> reporter: this woman says she never intended to go public. she remained silent about a six-year love affair she said she had with then football star herschel walker. >> he often told me in writing and every time we had a conversation how much he loved

me and how much i meant to him. and that i was who he wanted to be with. >> reporter: she's the second woman to accuse walker, a staunch anti-abortion candidate for senate, of paying for a secret abortion. >> it's very hard, considering the fact that he is someone who is professing so emphatically that he is against abortion in any instance. and that is the height of hypocrisy. >> reporter: the first allegations initially reported by "the daily beast" were made by an anonymous woman last month, claiming to be walker's ex-girlfriend. that provided what she says was a get well card from walker signed "h." abc news has not spoken with the first accuser or independently confirmed her story. walker responded on fox news to the first woman's allegations. >> it's a lie, and i'm going to continue to fight. you know, i tell you, that's what they want. they want this seat.

>> so what makes you want to speak about it now? >> when i saw the first woman come forward a few weeks ago, he immediately called her a liar. and said, i never signed anything with the letter "h." and i knew i had many cards from him where he signed the letter "h." and so i believed then that she was telling the truth. "h" stands for hypocrisy. >> reporter: the second accuser says that's when she decided to come forward. >> i am here today as a woman, and most importantly, a mother. >> reporter: giving a press conference by phone to protect her identity. now she wants to show her face for the first time with her attorney, gloria allred, by her side. at her request, we agreed to call her jane doe. >> the final decision was ultimately one that i shared with my daughter -- i'm sorry.

and my decision to show my face at this point is because of what she said to me. which was, "mom, you were never a woman to sit on the sidelines, and you didn't raise me to be one." and so that is why i'm sitting here today. >> reporter: jane doe showed us cards and letters she said she received from herschel walker. she says she took this photo of walker asleep. >> and that's you? >> reporter: they met, she says in the late '80s during the height of his football career. >> we saw each other several times a week. usually in the mornings. and we saw each other before games, home games, away games. i was invited. and i always insisted on paying half of my expenses when i went. >> why? >> i didn't want to feel like i was being kept. >> reporter: jane doe showed us hotel receipts from the years she says they were together and a voicemail she says from walker after he went to the olympic games in 1992.

>> fair to say you were in love with him? >> yes, we were in love. he not only ecpxpressed it to m often, in writing, on the phone in person, obviously. he met with my parents. he met with them on several occasions. >> how did that go about? >> he wanted to meet with them and explain to them that he loved their daughter. and he looked my parents in the eye and told them how much he loved me and that he was not doing me wrong, quote, unquote. and that he intended on being with me. and that he would protect me. >> reporter: jane doe says despite being on birth control, she got pregnant in 1993. >> i had a great life. but when i found out i was pregnant, i wanted to have the child. >> why? >> you know, it's -- i felt it

was the right decision for me. at the time. >> reporter: walker, she says, pressured her to get an abortion. >> he was very clear that he did not want me to have the child. and he said that -- he said that because of his wife's family and powerful people around him, that i would not be safe, and that the child would not be safe. >> that's very menacing. >> it is very menacing. it is very menacing. and i felt threatened. and i thought i had no choice. >> reporter: she says she went to an abortion clinic but couldn't go through with it. >> i guess it's part of the procedure, they did an ultrasound. and i saw the ultrasound.

and i couldn't go through with it. so i left the clinic. and went back home. >> reporter: but walker, she says, talked her into going back with him. >> he came to my house and picked me up. and drove me to the clinic. and i went in alone. and he waited in the car. while i went in and had the procedure. >> reporter: she says walker gave her cash to pay for the abortion. she has no records or receipts of the payment or the procedure. after the abortion, she says she and walker's relationship changed. >> everything shifted. he distanced himself from me almost immediately. >> did he ever break up with you or explicitly say anything? >> no. i left dallas immediately. >> why did you leave dallas? >> i didn't feel like i could stay there anymore, after this. >> reporter: jane doe says she

never lived in dallas again. >> i told my parents that i had a miscarriage. because i couldn't tell them the truth. yeah. and i told a few friends the same thing. because i couldn't tell the truth. >> why u. in your mind, did you feel like you couldn't tell them the truth? >> just -- was very shameful. and i felt like i had been manipulated. and i just -- i just -- couldn't. i couldn't at the time. i did later. >> reporter: last week after jane doe's press conference, the republican senate candidate denounced her claims. foolishness. i've already told people this is a lie and i'm not going to entertain the continued lie. >> reporter: he alluded to the allegations at a campaign event today. >> the democrats are going crazy right now, aren't they? they're going crazy. they're coming after me with everything right now.

>> reporter: also today, walker releasing a statement saying, this was a lie a week ago and it's a lie today. seven days before an election, the democrats trot out gloria allred and some woman i do not know. but we spoke to two women who refute that claim, identified to us as friends of jane doe by her lawyer, gloria allred. they each told us jane doe confided in them during the '90s that she got pregnant during a years-long affair with walker. one woman saying she took this photo of jane doe and walker meeting at a mental health conference in 2019, decades after their alleged affair. this is how she described their greeting. >> he embraced her. and the embrace -- it was very emotional. it lasted longer than a normal embrace. it was like they'd known each other for years and years and years, which i had known they had. >> reporter: jane doe says she and walker stayed in occasional contact, but her feelings

changed after she saw walker deny the first accuser's claims. >> herschel walker looked the american people in the eye after she spoke out last week and said it was a lie, both women were liars. and she's now looking the american people in the eye, and she's telling her truth. >> there is a sense that maybe you're some sort of puppet master, that this is a political hit job, that you're a political operative. >> i have attacked many democratic candidates for office, and elected officials. not just republicans. over the years. >> people are immediately going to assume that you're politically motivated. >> i voted for donald trump twice. i vote based on the person, not the party. and i have no -- this is not about politics for me. >> and so what do you hope happens, moving forward?

>> i hope he doesn't become a u.s. senator. and i hope that i can go back -- i want to go back to my life. >> what makes you think he's not fit to be a u.s. senator? >> i think honesty matters. i think it is not appropriate for a united states senator to say one thing and do another. and up next, ahead of the release of the "black panther" sea we'll, class wick boseman's widow refle woman tc: my a1c stayed here, it needed to be here. doctor tc: ruby's a1c is down with rybelsus®. man tc: my a1c wasn't at goal, now i'm down with rybelsus®. son tc: mom's a1c is down with rybelsus®. song: a1c down with rybelsus® anncr vo: in a clinical study, once-daily rybelsus® significantly lowered a1c better than the leading branded pill. anncr vo: rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. anncr vo: don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer,

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chadwick boseman has been gone over two years and his widow, simone ledward boseman, is working to honor his rich legacy. before they married in a private ceremony shortly weave his death. simone recently sat down in an exclusive interview with "the view's" whoopi goldberg. >> he was an artist, and he was a leader, and he was a king. and he chose me to be by his side for that -- you know, it's just -- it's the greatest blessing. even with, you know, the pain of his loss. >> he was a movie star and a cultural hero. chadwick boseman. who sealed his place in history by revealing wakanda to the world in "black panther." but off camera, he was privately battling a deadly disease, colon cancer, which took his life when he was only 43. by his side through it all, his

wife, simone boseman. >> it has been the most challenging two years i've ever had in my life. some days i'm doing worse than i'm really willing to acknowledge. other days i'm doing better than i feel comfortable admitting. the grief really moves in. he was just such a thoughtful person. he was so intentional. >> boseman's acting career was just starting to take off when he met simone. he had already landed his breakout role as baseball legend jackie robinson in the movie "42." but his career reached new heights when he was cast as kachalla, black panther in marvel's "captain america: civil war." >> where'd he go? >> two years later, 2018, the movie "black panther" shattered

box office records, grossing over, and i'm going to say it really clearly, a billion dollars. it also broke boundaries, showing a black king leading a nation of color. >> wakanda forever! >> what does it mean to you when you hear people say wakanda forever? >> wakanda is like paradise, the thing that is so powerful. yes, the representation, but really, it's the humanity. it's the complexity. it's the richness that has become this -- just this catalyst for community, for uniting the global diaspora. >> reporter: behind the scenes, he was battling stage 3 colon cancer. it later progressed to stage 4. what do you think were his toughest challenges? >> i think, you know -- i know that even in moments where, you know, there's hope, there's

always just that little -- in the back. i think that the hardest thing was wondering if he was going to have enough time to do all the work that he wanted to do. because he was very clear on what he needed to do. >> reporter: on august 28th, 2020, the uncomprehensible news broke that the first black movie hero died. the legacy lives on in "wakanda forever," the next installment of the "black panther" franchise. >> it's always going to be something that brings me joy that makes me proud, that this story gets to continue. that these little 8-year-olds and 6-year-olds and 75-year-olds -- >> yep. >> -- will continue to be inspired by this story. >> reporter: chadwick boseman was a graduate of howard university. his wife says he had a lifelong

love of knowledge. >> he was always bettering himself. he was always learning. it was exhausting. sometimes, you know, don't you just want to watch a movie for fun? could we just watch some reality tv or anything like that? you know, but i think that he always had a really divine understanding of time. he was so connected to god. knowing that he had a job to do, he had to do his job. >> reporter: his alma mater named their fine arts college after him. simone founded a scholarship in his name. >> there's an endowment scholarship at howard that sends one new student every year on a full ride to the chadwick a. boseman college of fine arts. and they are just brilliant. >> reporter: a lifelong singer, simone is using her talent to keep her husband's legacy alive. singing this tribute at the stand up to cancer event one

year after his passing. ♪ i'll be looking at the moon ♪ >> reporter: she's writing music she hopes to record soon. >> i know that chad would never want me to make the rest of my life about his life. he would want me to do me. he would want me to do my thing. >> reporter: she says her husband's memory is always with her. >> i can't believe that -- i can't believe that i was so lucky. i can't believe that i got to love this person. and i also got him to love me too. >> our thanks to whoopi. when we come back, taylor swift lights up the billboard top 10 and made her big top 10 and made her big

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