The following year, when they conceived a child, the couple agreed that she should terminate the pregnancy, she said. Mr. Walker has never expressed any moral or religious concerns about abortion, she said. He told her it was “not the right time” for a baby.
The two continued their relationship, and two years later the woman became pregnant again. This time, she says, she told Mr. Walker that she wanted to have the child. But Mr Walker did not and again argued that the time was not right. The relationship ended on September 16, 2011, according to his paternity suit. Her son was born the following May.
In an interview, a friend who lived in Atlanta at the time described comforting the woman through her morning sickness before her abortion and supporting her afterwards. Years later, when the woman was pregnant again, she revealed in phone conversations and in person that Mr Walker had asked her to terminate the pregnancy, but she was adamant she would not. not, according to the friend.
Mr Walker also appears to have been involved with two other women around this time. In an interview in the December 2011 issue of Playboy magazine, he identified Julie Blanchard, who is now his wife, as his fiancée. And in January 2012, Myka Dean, then a shareholder with her mother in Mr. Walker’s Renaissance Man company, according to financial records, filed a police report in Irving, Texas, in which she said that for 20 years, she had been in an on-off-on-off relationship with Mr. Walker. (Ms Dean, who died in 2019, told police Mr Walker threatened her after she told him she wanted to date other people. Mr Walker denied the allegation by the through a spokeswoman in April.)
The woman interviewed by The Times said Mr Walker had never physically assaulted her.
In April 2013, the woman filed for child support in Manhattan while a graduate student at Columbia University and “struggled to make ends meet,” according to a statement from her attorney at the time. . Mr. Walker was first ordered to make payments, first of $2,500 per month, then $3,500 per month. The final child support order was not made until July 2014, according to court records. Mr Walker made his payments on time, the woman said.
Mr Warnock has also been involved in a child custody dispute. His ex-wife filed a lawsuit in April to adjust the terms of their agreement and increase payments to account for the income he earns as a senator and senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. A spokeswoman for the Warnock campaign declined to comment for this article.
The woman said Mr Walker barely knew her 10-year-old son – she said he had ‘maybe only seen him three times’ – and hadn’t spoken to him in years. She said she and Mr Walker only communicated through Ms Blanchard, who the woman said sometimes called her to ask about her son’s height before sending gifts.