Former sports reporter Kelli Tennant spoke out Tuesday about her sexual assault allegations against Luke Walton, the new head coach of the Sacramento Kings.

Tennant, who used to work as a reporter for Spectrum SportsNet LA, filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the NBA coach and former player forced himself on her after inviting her into his hotel room in Santa Monica, California, in 2014. At the time, Walton was an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors.

Im no longer comfortable staying silent, Tennant said Tuesday at a news conference with her attorney Garo Mardirossian.

Tennant described the alleged assault in detail, saying it happened in 2014, after the publication of her book, The Transition: Every Athletes Guide to Life After Sports, for which Walton wrote a foreword. (The alleged incident was before he became head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers in 2016.)

At the time of the assault, she said she had already known Walton for years and considered him a mentor and a friend. They had met at a volleyball tournament years before, and then in 2013 Walton did some work as an analyst for sports coverage at Time Warner, where she worked. (Tennant was a volleyball player and coach before working in sports broadcasting.)

When the book came out, she asked to meet to give him a copy, and he suggested she come to his hotel, she said. He invited her to his room, and, though she said was hesitant, she decided that as someone I trusted for a long time, I realized I shouldnt overthink it.

Out of nowhere, he got on top of me, she said, describing the alleged assault in the hotel room. She said Walton pinned her down. When I asked him to please stop and get off, he laughed at me.

She said he rubbed his erection on her as he held her arms down, laughing at her pleas for him to stop and get off. I thought he was going to rape me, she said.

Once she was able to get up to try to leave, she said he again pinned her arms behind her and kissed her neck. Eventually, she said, she was able to get away and left the room.