Six years ago, while out at a nightclub in Tartu, Aleksandria Reinvart was drugged with GHB, commonly known as a date rape drug, slipped into her water. “Even though I was just supposed to drop my friends off at the club that night, I ended up staying because they said if the party was dull, I might as well drive them somewhere else. I grabbed a water right away and told them, ‘You guys go have fun, and if it’s a good party, I’ll head home,'” she recalled on the TV show “Hommik Anuga.”

She took a sip of the water she had ordered and left the glass on the bar while chatting for a few minutes with an old acquaintance she hadn’t seen in a while. When she later returned and drank from the same glass, she soon sensed that something was wrong. “I knew I hadn’t consumed any alcohol, but I could feel myself slipping away. My whole body was tingling,” she described. She turned to the guy she was seeing at the time, but he didn’t take her concerns seriously. “The next thing I knew, everything went black and I woke up in the wrong place the next morning.”

Reinvart doesn’t remember what happened in between. “Today I understand and know what happened, but at first, it took me several days to even realize I’d been assaulted because I was in total denial. It was like my mind just blocked it out. Your body shuts down that memory — your mind throws it away and tells you nothing happened,” she said.

Though she prefers not to imagine what was done to her under the influence of the drug, Reinvart is convinced she was sexually assaulted. “The aftermath was severe. I won’t go into detail, but 11 days later, I ended up in the ER and nearly died from sepsis. My life was literally hanging by a thread.”

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