Brittany Higgins 攻撃する，衝突するs out at Bruce Lehrmann's lawyer 説 she is 存在 'embarrassed' in 法廷，裁判所 - as she's 取調べ／厳しく尋問するd over what she told The 事業／計画（する）'s Lisa Wilkinson about her underwear

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Brittany Higgins has told a 陪審／陪審員団 she is 存在 'embarrassed ... in 前線 of a 法廷，裁判所' as she is 取調べ／厳しく尋問するd over telling Lisa Wilkinson in a 研究 interview that her （刑事）被告 rapist took her underwear off.

Bruce Lehrmann is （刑事）被告 of having 非，不，無-consensual sex with the former political スタッフの一員 inside 議会 House after a night out in Canberra in March 2019.

Lehrmann has pleaded not 有罪の to one count of 性の intercourse without 同意 in the ACT 最高裁判所.

As Ms Higgins returned to the 証言，証人／目撃する box on Friday, she was shown a transcript of a question and answer 開会／開廷／会期 between her and The 事業／計画（する） host Lisa Wilkinson on January 21, 2021. The Q&A （機の）カム 事前の to her テレビ放送するd interview.?

Defence lawyer Steven Whybrow asked if Ms Higgins 解任するd 存在 asked by Ms Wilkinson 'so she 除去するd your panties?' and if she answered 'yeah'.?

'Do you 解任する giving an answer to that question?' he asked.

Ms Higgins said: 'Yes, yes I do. But it was wrong.?

Brittany Higgins is seen at 法廷，裁判所 last week with her boyfriend David Sharaz (支援する 権利). She told a 陪審／陪審員団 she was 存在 'embarrassed' in 前線 of a 法廷，裁判所, after questions about what she told Lisa Wilkinson about her 着せる／賦与するing

The 法廷，裁判所 heard Higgins told Lisa Wilkinson in a 研究 interview that Bruce Lehrmann 除去するd her underwear. 'I didn't wear underwear and I was e mbarrassed,' Higgins said in 法廷，裁判所

'I didn't wear underwear and I was embarrassed but that wasn't the interview itself and there was no (statutory 宣言) on that.

'I was embarrassed by it ... I continue to be embarrassed by it in 前線 of a 法廷，裁判所'.

Ms Higgins said she did not wear underwear with her dress on the basis that it had lines. 'I'm a 20-year-old girl, we care about stuff like that'.

The moment （機の）カム after Ms Higgins 爆発するd in 法廷，裁判所 at questions from Mr Whybrow, after returning to the 裁判，公判 after a four day absence because she was unavailable.

Mr Whybrow put to Ms Higgins that, when she left her former 長，指導者-of-staff Fiona Brown's office after 明らかにする／漏らすing her 強姦 （人命などを）奪う，主張する, she was more 関心d about her career 存在 in jeopardy.?

Ms Higgins replied: 'It was 絶対 a 関心 but it was a moment of... I'd let it out. For the first time I'd let it out. I was 持つ／拘留するing it in pretending it was 罰金.

'Nothing was 罰金 after what you did to me. Nothing,' she said, pointing at Lehrmann.?

Ms Higgins (centre) was 宣言するd 'unavailable' to …に出席する 法廷，裁判所 on Monday and was absent for four days

Ms Higgins （人命などを）奪う，主張するs she told Ms Brown about the 主張s against Lehrmann on the Tuesday after the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 強襲，強姦.?

But Mr Whybrow put to her that she didn't tell Ms Brown about the 主張s until the Thursday.

Ms Higgins replied: 'I don't 受託する that. The first person I 公表する／暴露するd it to was to Ms Brown.'

When Mr Whybrow asked about emails she sent to Lehrmann on the Monday and Tuesday after the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 強襲，強姦 - where they had 交流s about work, すなわち an email 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 追加する her to - he put to her that they? were '完全に cordial and normal' because 'there was no 性の 強襲，強姦'.

'Wouldn't say normal,' Ms Higgins replied.

'After a 外傷／ショック, you 肉親，親類d of go through a strange 持つ／拘留するing period of an 延長するd, 凍結する, I guess. But I was trying to 持続する 静める because he had higher 駅／配置する in the office than me. I was 脅すd.'

Mr Whybrow said to Ms Higgins: 'I am putting to you there was no 性の 強襲，強姦.'

She replied: 'I know that's what you think. I don't 受託する that at all.

'It was me compartmentalising my life and caring about my 職業 more than my own life... which is f**ked up, sorry... and my career I'd been building に向かって my entire life.'

Mr Whybrow then referred Ms Higgins to her interview with 連邦の police where she spoke about an 試みる／企てる by Lehrmann to kiss her 'before March 22' in 2019.

'Yes I 解任する 存在 最終的な. I don't know if I should gave been so 最終的な,' Ms Higgins replied.

She said the 試みる／企てるd kiss would have occurred durin g a sitting week, and on a Wednesday, because 'that's when we went out as a team'.

Mr Whybrow said: 'I put to you this 出来事/事件 did not occur - there was no occasion where Mr Lehrmann tried to kiss you.'

Ms Higgins replied: 'That is incorrect.'

Mr Whybrow 答える／応じるd: 'I put to you that it did not happen between March 22 and March 26... there was no sitting week between the March 22 and 26, 2019.'

'I just know that we went to the Kingo [Kingston Hotel] and he made an 試みる／企てる to kiss me during that week,' Ms Higgins replied.?

Mr Whybrow asked Ms Higgins about a 会合 she had with Ms Brown and her then boss, former 連合 大臣 Linda Reynolds, in the 大臣の office where she 主張するs the 強姦 took place.

He put to Ms Higgins that Ms Reynolds told her 'if something had happened and you 手配中の，お尋ね者 to talk about it, you are within your 権利s to go to the police'.

'概して 正確な,' Ms Higgins replied.

Mr Whybrow, 引用するing Ms Reynolds, said: 'You will be supported in whatever you decide to do.'

Ms Higgins replied: 'It had all these 準備／条項s on it, so 説 it at 額面価格 sounds 概して 承認する but in the 状況 of where they were 説 it, how they were 説 it, in the 状況 of the [近づいている] 選挙... it felt 脅すing.'

Mr Whybrow asked Ms Higgins if Ms Reynolds told there would be no 衝撃 on her career.

She replied: 'The words that were said and the 状況 were very different. She said nice things, as I've 繰り返して 明言する／公表するd. I saw it as 脅すing and her その後の behaviour... my 職業 was on the line.'

Mr Whybrow showed Ms Higgins of a photograph of a 瓶／封じ込める of シャンペン酒 within a WhatsApp 交流 between her and Ms Brown.

She 答える／応じるd: 'I was 存在 polite to my 雇用者 as I left 議会 house.'

Defence lawyer Stephen Whybrow showed Brittany Higgins of a photograph of a 瓶／封じ込める of シャンペン酒 within a WhatsApp 交流 (pictured) between her and her former 長，指導者 of staff Fiona Brown. She 答える／応じるd: 'I was 存在 polite to my 雇用者 as I left 議会 house.'?

Wr Whybrow asked if she 削除するd those messages from her phone 事前の to 手渡すing it over to police.

Ms Higgins said her WhatsApp data was wiped when she changed phones.

Mr Whybrow put to Ms Higgins that she was embarrassed after 存在 設立する naked in Ms Reynold's office, and therefore '捏造する，製作するd' the 主張.?

'You did what you thought was necessary to have people believe you had been [sexually 強襲，強姦d],' he said.

Ms Higgins replied: 'I'm not a monster. I would never do something like that.'?

Ms Higgins was asked whether she told Lisa Wilkinson on Janurary 21, 2021, that Lehrmann 除去するd her underwear.

'No. I didn't wear underwear that night with the dress on the basis that it had lines. I'm a 20-year-old girl, we care about stuff like that.'?

The new 証拠 comes after Ms Higgins sat in the 証人席 last week and was 予定 to continue 存在 cross-診察するd by Mr Whybrow on Monday.

However, the 起訴 told the 法廷，裁判所 she was 'unavailable' until Friday this week.

The 裁判，公判 continued with other 証言，証人／目撃するs but the 法廷，裁判所 has banned their 証拠 from 存在 published until Ms Higgins has 完全にするd her 証拠.

Channel 10 host Lisa Wilkinson will no longer be 要求するd to give 証拠 in the 裁判，公判 of Brittany Higgins' 申し立てられた／疑わしい rapist as the 証言，証人／目撃する 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） was 徹底的に 縮めるd

The 法廷，裁判所 以前 heard Ms Higgins?and Lehrmann returned to 議会 House after a night out drinking with defence department 同僚s.

The former 自由主義の Party スタッフの一員 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs she fell asleep on the couch and woke up to Lehrmann having sex with her.

Former 連合 defence 大臣 Linda Reynolds, Ms Higgins' boss at the time of the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 強襲，強姦, is 予定 to give 証拠 in 法廷，裁判所 on Tuesday.

上院議員 Michaelia Cash is also 推定する／予想するd to be in the 証言，証人／目撃する box 早期に next week before the 栄冠を与える の近くにs its 事例／患者.

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