Woman Comes Forward With Evidence of Her Relationship With Roy Moore When She Was 17

“That’s the age I was when I dated Roy Moore, because my braces were off.”

One of the women The Washington Post included in its original reporting on women who were accusing Roy Moore of sexual assault, child sexual assault, and inappropriate behavior has come forward with what the Post says is evidence she had a relationship with the Alabama Republican when she was 17 and he was 34. 

Debbie Wesson Gibson tells the Post last week she found her old scrapbook and a graduation card in it. Moore personally signed the card and gave it to her when the two were dating, she says.

“Happy graduation Debbie,” it read in slanted cursive handwriting. “I wanted to give you this card myself. I know that you’ll be a success in anything you do. Roy.”

In Gibson’s scrapbook, the Post reports, on “a page titled ‘the best times,’ she had written: ‘Wednesday night, 3-4-81. Roy S. Moore and I went out for the first time. We went out to eat at Catfish Cabin in Albertville. I had a great time.’ She had underlined ‘great’ twice.”

Gibson “said that she and Moore dated for a couple of months. She said he kissed her by the swimming pool concession stand at a local country club, that he played his guitar and read his own poetry to her, and that things ended when she went off to college in another part of Alabama, though they still kept in touch.” 

In an interview after the Post’s initial story was published Moore had said he remembered Gibson, but later said he did not, and called all his accusers liars.

“The allegations are completely false. They are malicious. Specifically, I do not know any of these women,” Moore had said on November 27.

Two days later Moore doubled down.

“Let me state once again: I do not know any of these women, did not date any of these women and have not engaged in any sexual misconduct with anyone.”

Gibson, a Republican says she decided to contact the Post again after hearing Moore call her a liar, even though the hate mail she’s received since going public was so threatening she’s had to contact the police.

“He called me a liar,” said Gibson, who says she not only openly dated Moore when she was 17 but later joined him in passing out fliers during his campaign for circuit court judge in 1982 and exchanged Christmas cards with him over the years. “Roy Moore made an egregious mistake to attack that one thing — my integrity.”

She says when watching a video of Moore saying he did not know any of his accusers, she “knew he was a liar.”

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