The Columbia student who carries a mattress to protest her alleged rape has had her story’s narrative challenged.

Even after the alleged rape, she continued to initiate friendly conversation with the alleged rapist.

Columbia student’s alleged rapist contradicts narrative … with evidence

We’ve previously covered the rape allegations by Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz against her alleged rapist, which involve Sulkowicz carrying around her mattress as a protest against the school’s investigation of her former friend-with-benefit Paul Nungesser.

Now Nungesser himself is speaking – and providing evidence of their continued friendship after the alleged rape.

Journalist Cathy Young, whose work often focuses on the civil-liberties implications of assault allegations and sexist assumptions about women, actually interviewed Nungesser for The Daily Beast and got a trove of since-deleted Facebook messages between himself and his accuser.

Nungesser’s account differs only from Sulkowicz’s in whether their sex that night was consensual all the way through. Sulkowicz herself told Young that the three months of Facebook messages he provided were authentic and “not redacted.”

Among them, two days after the alleged rape, Nungesser invites Sulkowicz to a “small shindig” and she responds:

lol yusss

Also I feel like we need to have some real time where we can talk about life and thingz

because we still haven’t really had a paul-emma chill sesh since summmmerrrr

Eleven days later, she initiated contact. She asked if he wanted to hang out before or after the coed frat meeting they were both attending:

whatever I want to see yoyououoyou

respond—I’ll get the message on ma phone

And when he sent her a birthday greeting in October, she said “I love you Paul.” They didn’t see each other much after that, which Nungesser took as Sulkowicz simply hanging with a new crowd. Nothing out of the ordinary in college.