E Jean Carroll ‘doubled over with pain’ recalling alleged Trump rape, jury hears

Clinical psychologist Leslie Lebowitz says former advice columnist, 79, exhibits aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder

The advice columnist E Jean Carroll was so traumatized recalling her alleged rape by Donald Trump that she was “doubled over with stomach pain”, a leading clinical psychologist told a New York jury on Wednesday.

Dr Leslie Lebowitz told Trump’s civil trial that Carroll exhibits aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder, including physical pain, without fitting the full clinical diagnosis as a result of the alleged assault in 1996.