Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker.
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An ex-girlfriend of Herschel Walker’s told The Daily Beast he attacked her in 2005.
“His massive hands were on my chest and throat,” said the woman, identified as Cheryl Parsa.
Walker’s campaign did not immediately return Insider’s requests for comment.
An ex-girlfriend of Herschel Walker has come forward with accusations that the Republican Georgia Senate candidate once attacked her in a wild rage after she caught him with another woman while they were dating — and says he’s unfit to hold office.
“His massive hands were on my chest and throat,” the woman, identified as Cheryl Parsa, told The Daily Beast of Walker in a report published on Thursday. “I thought he was going to beat me.”
Walker’s campaign did not immediately return Insider’s requests for comment.
Parsa, a Dallas, Texas, resident, told The Daily Beast that the incident happened in 2005 after she went to Walker’s condo and found another woman on his motorcycle wearing her helmet.
Parsa told The Beast that Walker had previously admitted to having a relationship with the woman but had said he ended it.
When Parsa says she confronted Walker at the time, she told The Daily Beast that he went off the rails, repeatedly shouting, “You want to see a man? I’ll show you a man!” as he pressed his head up against hers.
“I saw a fist flying toward me. As I ducked down, he hit the wall beside my head and staggered backwards toward the bedroom, saying, ‘Come on! I’m gonna show you what a man is!'” Parsa told The Beast.
She added, “And I heard him from the bedroom beating himself up against the wall repeatedly and with force.”
Parsa said she fled Walker’s condo in fear.
The woman alleged that in addition to the violent episode, she endured other “frightful moments,” as well as cheating and lying, and witnessed symptoms of Walker’s dissociative identity disorder during her 2004 to 2009 relationship with him, The Beast reported.
Parsa described Walker to The Beast as “unstable” and someone who has “little to no control” over his mental state when untreated.
“He’s a pathological liar. Absolutely. But it’s more than that,” Parsa told The Beast, adding, “He knows how to manipulate his disease, in order to manipulate people, while at times being simultaneously completely out of control.”
She continued, “He is not well.”
“And I say that as someone who knows exactly what this looks like, because I have lived through it and seen what it does to him and to other people,” she told the Daily Beast. “He cannot be a senator. He cannot have control over a state when he has little to no control of his mind.”
Walker, an NFL legend, has been open about his DID diagnosis, writing about it in a 2009 memoir. But Walker has said, even during his campaign, that he has overcome the mental health condition and no longer needs treatment.
Walker has previously faced allegations of domestic violence and has been accused of pressuring two women to have abortions. He has said he doesn’t remember the domestic violence incident his ex-wife alleged and denied the abortion allegations.
Georgia voters will finish casting their ballots to determine whether Walker or Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock will win the Senate seat in the runoff election on December 6.