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Holmes testified Monday that Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, her ex-boyfriend and Theranos' former president and COO, physically and emotionally abused her. The two met during a trip to China when Holmes was 18 years old and Balwani was 37. Holmes said, after being raped while a student at Stanford University, she decided to drop out to build Theranos. She told Balwani she had been raped, and "he said that I was safe now that I had met him," Holmes testified.
The Theranos founder said Balwani also sexually abused her, though. "He would force me to have sex with him when I didn't want to because he would say that he wanted me to know he still loved me," Holmes said, according to The New York Times.
Jurors saw notes Holmes wrote on her phone after the alleged assault.
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