BREAKING: New Accuser Claims Eric Swalwell Drugged, Choked And Raped Her

Summary

Podcast Summary: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present

Episode: BREAKING: New Accuser Claims Eric Swalwell Drugged, Choked And Raped Her
Date: April 14, 2026
Hosts: Amy Robach & TJ Holmes

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Brief Overview

This urgent episode revolves around breaking allegations against Congressman Eric Swalwell as a fifth accuser—identified publicly as Lana Drews—comes forward with claims of being drugged, choked, and violently raped by Swalwell in 2018. Amy Robach and TJ Holmes react to the details emerging from Drews's press conference, discuss the nature and credibility of her account, compare it to other known allegations, and contemplate the broader implications for Swalwell and for potential other victims.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Breaking News & Allegations

• [02:18] Context Setting:
  • The episode is a direct response to a press conference just held by Lana Drews, who publicly accused Eric Swalwell of a violent rape involving drugs and choking in 2018.
  • This is the fifth accuser overall and the second woman to allege not just inappropriate behavior but an actual criminal sexual assault.
  • Important context: Prior accuser had remained anonymous and described memory loss, but Drews went public with her name and face.

Quote:
“As we record this, a woman In Los Angeles is on her way to the police department to report that Congressman Eric Swalwell drugged, choked, and raped her.”
— TJ Holmes [02:18]

2. Details from Lana Drews’s Accusation

• [03:31] New Accuser’s Account:

  • Lana Drews is a former model and fashion software entrepreneur. She claims the attack occurred during what she believed was a business-related meeting.
  • Drews states she had only one glass of wine before being invited to Swalwell’s hotel room to "retrieve paperwork,” after which she rapidly lost control of her body—a sensation she attributes to being drugged.
  • She describes being choked to the point of unconsciousness:

    “She said he raped her and he choked her so much that she says she actually lost consciousness. She said she thought she was dying...”
    — Amy Robach [09:25]

• [04:21–05:39] Why She Delayed Reporting:

  • Drews explains the delay stemmed from fear: fearing disbelief and retaliation given Swalwell’s power and family law enforcement ties.
  • She did, however, tell friends, logged it in a calendar, and attended therapy over the incident—a pattern the hosts note increases her credibility.

3. Comparisons to Previous Allegations

• [07:38–09:20]
  • TJ and Amy compare Drews’s clarity and composure favorably against the first accuser who had significant memory loss, noting that the “blackout” experiences in both stories may point to a similar M.O.

“Her delay was driven by fear. Not doubt is how she placed it. But her name is Lana Drew...”
— TJ Holmes [06:56]

4. Corroborative Evidence and Credibility

• [10:07–10:36]
  • Drews has contemporary documentation: told friends, marked it in a calendar, and documented it in therapy.
  • “The fact if she did all of this in 2018 and said nothing publicly, it absolutely corroborates or at least makes it so much more believable that she didn't go forward because she was afraid.”
    — Amy Robach [10:36]

5. Pattern of Alleged Abuse & Potential Fallout

• [16:57–18:58]
  • The hosts discuss the likelihood of a behavioral pattern, not isolated events, citing other allegations from 2018, 2019, and as recently as 2024.
  • TJ references the nature of power and opportunity for such behavior to go unchecked for years in high office.
  • Lisa Bloom, Drews’s attorney, states she already heard from three more women.
  • Hosts question if there was overlooked or ignored knowledge of Swalwell’s alleged behavior in Washington society circles.

"I just felt a bunch of pride rushing up in me because in this moment when you saw her and you heard her story...you start to get an idea of what one man who is unchecked with this kind of power, the damage that he can cause."
— Amy Robach [19:09]

6. Law Enforcement and Public Response

• [21:02–22:36]
  • Manhattan DA’s office and LAPD are now inviting other possible victims or witnesses to come forward.
  • The timing of Drews’s alleged attack—2018, during the height of MeToo—is discussed as particularly notable.

7. Swalwell’s Denials and Presumption of Innocence

• [04:21–04:45 / 19:18–20:28]
  • The hosts emphasize periodically that these allegations remain unproven; Swalwell has denied all wrongdoing and has not been charged.

"Again, I have we, I, I, we need to say it multiple times. Eric Swalwell has denied all of these allegations. He has not been charged with any crime. But...this is a picture that is emerging that is chilling and should be paid very close attention to."
— Amy Robach [20:19]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Listening to her tell her story, damn, she was very believable. She was composed. She was emotional, but in a very genuine way. I thought listening to her, I felt for her and I believed her."
  — Amy Robach [04:21]

• “What she describes is not somebody who just had one glass of wine. I don’t care how much of a lightweight. What she describes sounds fishy.”
  — TJ Holmes [08:11]

• “She says she was getting up from that press conference and going directly to police.”
  — TJ Holmes [18:58]

• “Now that she’s come forward, shouldn’t we expect possibly phones to be ringing at a Manhattan DA’s office, at the Los Angeles Police Department...How far does this go?”
  — TJ Holmes [16:34]

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Important Timestamps

• 02:18 – Breaking news intro; background on new allegations.
• 03:31–04:21 – Drews’s public press conference and what distinguishes her account.
• 05:39–06:56 – Details of Drews’s professional background and motivation for initial silence.
• 07:38–09:25 – Description of alleged assault; comparison to prior allegations.
• 09:44–10:36 – Aftermath, documentation, and credibility of Drews’s account.
• 16:34–18:58 – Broader implications, investigation talk, Lisa Bloom’s statement.
• 20:19–21:32 – Law enforcement outreach and responses from the public.
• 22:36–23:24 – Timeline of other accusers and significance of Drews’s public stance.

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Final Thoughts

Amy and TJ close the episode by underscoring the gravity and potential broadness of the case, as well as the courage of Lana Drews in addressing the allegations so publicly and forcefully. They stress that Eric Swalwell is entitled to legal presumption of innocence, but that the story is developing quickly and could implicate others who may have known. Listeners are advised to watch for more fallout and emerging information as investigations continue.

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[TJ Holmes]

Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, April 14, and as we record this, a woman In Los Angeles is on her way to the police department to report that Congressman Eric Swalwell drugged, choked, and raped her. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and tj. This would be the fifth accuser and the second woman, Robes, to come forward and share a story. Accusation of this is not just inappropriate behavior. This is now two accusations of a horrible criminal act. Ropes.

[Amy Robach]

Yes. This isn't sexual harassment. This isn't sexual abuse. This was, as she described it, a violent rape that involved drugging. And you mentioned choking. She actually sat in front of cameras with microphones in her face and said after she went through this, she says she didn't want to live. This was a powerful emotional account of what she claims happened in 2018.

[TJ Holmes]

And we should tell you all now. We are hopping on. She just wrapped a press conference. We knew this press conference was happening. We were told that there would be some new details. We were not expecting this. And key here, Robes, key is that the first accuser came out. Sure. Maybe people are putting it together, but she did an interview in which she did not show her face, that she was blacked out. She hasn't given her name. This woman sat in front of a room full of cameras. Her name is Alana Drews. And put her name and face on it and told her story. Robes, this is not the other. The other. Look, we have to believe a woman when she comes forward like this, but talk of our talk of alcohol and really getting wasted and didn't remember one night, and then the other night there were flashes. This is not the case at all with this woman's story.

[Amy Robach]

I have to tell you, just listening to her tell her story, you could hear a pin drop. And I had chills from head to toe multiple times listening to her recount this. And I just have to say, just in terms of my impressions, and everyone can have their impression. And of course, this is her version of events. This is all alleged. He, of course, denies any wrongdoing, denies so far any of the accounts and certainly any criminal accounts that have been made that would describe behav behavior that could be. Yes. Punishable by police. So he's denied everything. However, listening to her tell her story, Damn, she was very believable. She was composed. She was emotional, but in a very genuine way. I thought listening to her, I felt for her and I believed her.

[TJ Holmes]

You know, frankly, she felt brave. She felt brave sitting there and hearing part of her story. Robes. And I know it was a part that you jumped on the most and you like. I. I feel her There. Is that the reason she hasn't come forward in all this time, and we're talking about. It's been eight years. She lived in fear, and she was in circles that were influential and didn't want to rock the boat. And all I. When you were listening to her, you were like, yep, that reads. Yep, that makes sense. Yep. I get it.

[Amy Robach]

Yes. Because here is a woman. She was a model in Beverly Hills, but she also owned a fashion software company, and she was hoping to get connected to folks in Silicon Valley. She describes Congressman Eric Swalwell as a friend and someone who said, hey, I can hook you up. I've got connections. Let's have some meetings. So she had a couple meetings with him. This was another meeting. And she said, I knew he was married. I knew his wife was pregnant. So she went into this not feeling threatened or feeling like maybe something else was going on. She felt like this was a legit business friendship that could actually serve her well in her. In her professional career. And when she talked about why she didn't, she did tell friends she did say this, and she did document it in several ways. Personally. She went to a therapist for years, but she didn't want to go to police, and she didn't want to say anything publicly out of fear that her. She wouldn't be believed. That he was a powerful political figure who had. She said his family has ties to law enforcement. He's a big deal in this area. And to go up against him and to say something happened and then to be pitted against him. She said, he said she just. She felt too afraid to come forward.

[TJ Holmes]

Her delay was driven by fear. Not doubt is how she placed it. But her name is Lana Drew. She was, as you mentioned, Robes, working as a model. Had this company out there. Now, her press conference, and I wanted to make sure we said this exactly how she said it. Quote, I believed he drugged my drink. Now, she goes on to tell this story of Robe. She says she met him and then they were together socially. On three occasions, she offered to help him. Excuse me. He offered to help her out. But the third occasion. Let's move to that one. Robes. And she starts to describe. They were supposed to go to an event together. Again, 2018, they're supposed to go to some event, but he says he needs to go back up to his room.

[Amy Robach]

Correct. And she said beforehand they had. She had one glass of wine.

[TJ Holmes]

One.

[Amy Robach]

One glass of wine. And she said, look, she was considering running for city council. She had an interest in politics. So, yes, she was going to A public event with him. So she knows she only had one glass of wine. He said, according to her, oops, I got to run up to my hotel room to retrieve some paperwork. She said by the time she walked into his room, she couldn't move her arms. She started to feel the effects of what she believes was a drug that she believes he put in her drink.

[TJ Holmes]

What she describes is not somebody who just had one glass of wine. I don't care how much of a lightweight. What she describes sounds fishy. Now, Robes, before we continue with her story, the reason this stands out so much, because we couldn't understand why the other accuser said he also raped her. Couldn't remember whole parts of the night. Couldn't remember going from the bar to the hotel. Couldn't remember anything in between. Now, robes that. Look, folks have been blackout drunk before. You happen to be blackout drunk on the two times and can't remember anything. The two times you met up with this congressman Robes, that might lend itself a little more to that story. And what could have. Could have. She's not alleging. Right.

[Amy Robach]

She doesn't know. She doesn't even know enough to allege. And she knows she was drinking. So I actually give her credit. She wasn't trying to say I only had one. And I don't know how she was like, I was heavily drinking. But you are correct. When I was listening to Lana Drew's tell her story, I immediately went to the former staffer and thought, I wonder if she even considered that maybe something was put in one of those drinks to make her literally remember nothing.

[TJ Holmes]

All right, let's hop back to Lana. Yeah. Just wanted to insert that in there, but, yeah, she says she has the one drink, goes upstairs, can't move her body.

[Amy Robach]

She said you couldn't move her arms. She couldn't move her body, but she knew what was going on. And she said he raped her and he choked her so much that she says she actually lost consciousness. She said she thought she was dying. Yeah, she used that phrase. I thought I was dying.

[TJ Holmes]

Now, I didn't hear. They didn't go into details. I think, Robes, about the aftermath. What happened immediately after. How does she get away from. How did she get home? Whatever happened, they didn't give those details, and they didn't give all details. She did let us know that at the time, she did not do a rape kit. But, Robe, she did plenty of other things that will be seen as if. Even if not evidence, it'll certainly lend to her credibility.

[Amy Robach]

Oh, this is something that police look for when they are putting together a criminal investigation and get ready to make charges. Did she tell people close to her at the time she claims it happened? The answer is yes. She also says she logged it in her handwritten calendar that this happened on this date. And then she also documented the assault during multiple theory therapy sessions at a sexual assault center.

[TJ Holmes]

That's a. If they got those records.

[Amy Robach]

And the fact if she did all of this in 2018 and said nothing publicly, it absolutely corroborates or at least makes it so much more believable that she didn't go forward because she was afraid. She was afraid of being put in that position, of being forced to perhaps even maybe lose her business or lose clients or just becoming that woman no one wants to be. No woman wants to be that woman who's pointing the finger at a powerful man. It's a scary, scary endeavor. But the fact that she did all of those things to try and heal herself speaks to me, to her credibility.

[TJ Holmes]

And again, this is in 2018 is when this happened to her. Robes. Since then, there have been plenty of other times that she was after him, times when his profile was higher. There were times she could have hurt him if she wanted to hurt him. There were times she could have blackmailed him, if she wanted to blackmail him in some way, form or fashion. If she wanted a favor even from him, she had plenty of chances to do so. Robes. And she's just that that lends greatly to credibility.

[Amy Robach]

Yes. Again, watching her, listening to her description of what happened, hearing how she acted, hearing in the aftermath of everything, it all seemed very credible. And it is of note because she felt safe, she felt empowered. She felt like she would be believed now. And that makes a lot of sense too, because other women have come forward

[TJ Holmes]

and there might be more. We will explain what her attorney said in this press conference that will have Eric Swalwell certainly concerned, but it will raise more eyebrows about just how many women potential victims there are out there. Stay here.

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[TJ Holmes]

All right, we continue here on Amy and tj. Robes are just mentioned. You said she has come forward now and she's come forward because other women came forward. Well, now that she's come forward, shouldn't we expect possibly phones to be ringing at a Manhattan DA's office at the Los Angeles Police Department of Beverly Hills, wherever they are? Robes, this. How far does this go?

[Amy Robach]

Yeah, because the timing all is interesting because remember his former staffer, who was 21 at the time, detailed what she said was the first time he sexually assaulted her. As 2019, we are hearing from Lana that her incident happened, she says, in 2018. So this is all in the same kind of period of time. And look, if this is true, I believe from just the experience we've had covering these types of stories, when a person acts like this, it oftentimes isn't an outlier. It isn't an individual or a singular event. This typically is a sexual desire and a pattern. And so if you've already got now the fifth woman coming out and what they describe is so atrocious and violent. And if he had been getting away with it year after year after year, if this is all true, I can't imagine there aren't more women there. It seems like they're almost certainly are more Women.

[TJ Holmes]

Robes. You said this to me before in cases maybe not a drug, but it's hard to imagine that this was the first time he done it. If he did it that she was the first or a one off. That means it's possibly happened. How many possible times you telling me a U.S. congressman who actually ran for president and wanted to be the governor of California was out there drugging and raping people?

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Robe.

[TJ Holmes]

That's Jeez. Robe. This is an unbelievable story he has. This is not a one off. And look, we believe that first victim that first you have to listen to that story. Robes. But there are parts of that story you might ask a follow up question about. There are parts of that story you might question about memories in it. This lady's story is at least from a press conference unimpeachable. Robes.

[Amy Robach]

She way to put it.

[TJ Holmes]

She's got receipts upon receipts upon receipts. She says now we haven't seen them yet. But as we sit here she says she was getting up from that press conference and going directly to police.

[Amy Robach]

That was powerful. When she said I will be making a report to law enforcement immediately I could see this could make me emotional. I could see the strength coming back to her because when she was telling the story she was vulnerable. She was emotional. You could see and feel how powerless she felt. And she has felt in that moment and all of the years that have followed, even telling us that she wanted she had suicidal thoughts based on what she had experienced because she felt so powerless, helpless. And to see her say I will be making a report to law enforcement immediately. I saw the strength come back in her voice and I felt, I just felt a bunch of pride rushing up in me because in this moment when you saw her and you heard her story and you take in the consideration of all the other stories that are out there, you start to get an idea of what one man who is unchecked with this kind of power, the damage that he can cause. Now again, I have we, I, I, we need to say it multiple times. Eric Swalwell has denied all of these allegations. He has not been charged with any crime. But since still this is a picture that is emerging that is chilling and should be paid very close attention to

[TJ Holmes]

and Robes we mentioned we don't know how far this will go, but this is beyond messages and unwanted. Right. Misconduct is different from criminal. And Robes. They are painting the picture now of a potential monster is just hard to understand. And we are Robes. You thought it was interesting that when the Manhattan DA put out a statement saying they Were looking into this. They had a call out, essentially. There. Any other victims out there we want to hear from? Had a phone number, didn't they attach to it?

[Amy Robach]

They did for their Special Victims Unit.

[TJ Holmes]

It's one of the last things Lana's attorney did. Lisa Bloom said, we want to hear from you Gave a website, gave a number. We want to hear not just from potential survivors, but also witnesses to anything. So not even if you just saw you're aware of something. We want to hear. She says she's already heard from three women.

[Amy Robach]

Wow. And that's not shocking, but it's still so sickening to hear.

[TJ Holmes]

Just more phone calls are likely being made. Robes. I just. It's. This is a member of Congress robes. We talk about Governor of California. He was trying to be. He's trying to. He presided over the impeachment trial. This is a high profile, big influential guy that was raping people and, you know, for years.

[Amy Robach]

2018, by the way, is the year of MeToo. That actually also is shocking to me. I would have thought, naively so, I guess that all of these powerful men who may have been behaving badly, who had gotten away with it for decades, years, whatever, when that reckoning took place, I would have thought that even if you're that guy, you might check yourself and think, you know what? I might actually go down. This is not worth it. Any sexual fantasy I have or anything I'm getting out of doing this isn't worth me losing my entire life and livelihood. And yet if this is true, the timing, actually, this was happening. If it. It happened in the midst of me too. Think about that.

[TJ Holmes]

Can you tell me, babe, some of the other accusers about the. The messages and whatnot. Do you know the years, the range for those?

[Amy Robach]

Well, if I thought I had seen like 2021.

[TJ Holmes]

Okay. So.

[Amy Robach]

Yes. So it seemed as though that the. The dates we've gotten. The first one was 2018 and 19

[TJ Holmes]

or where we have 19.

[Amy Robach]

So now we have. Yeah, that's it. 2018 and then all the way up to 2024. So it seems as though these instances and some of the ones from these social influencers. I'm not trying to act like it's not a big deal, but they are a far cry from what we're hearing from these two women, the former staffer and now this former model, Lana Drews. But I do think it's really, really significant that she did not only put her name to it, but her face to it and her own voice to it. That was powerful.

[TJ Holmes]

Robes There might be more fallout. Are they? You're really gonna. Somebody's gonna start asking, who knew? What are you really telling me? Y' all been walking the halls with him for the past eight years and nobody. Because stuff starting. It's like it was an open secret here in dc, don't forget.

[Amy Robach]

And we haven't validated any of this, but there are videos circulating online of people catching him kind of bragging about certain kind of behavior or being bored with his wife. And so, look, it would. I would imagine other people might have had an idea, but maybe they didn't know how significant and violent some of these accusations actually are.

[TJ Holmes]

This is a relevant story that. A very relevant story that seems to be just getting started. Robes. It was just last Thursday. He was trying to be the governor of California.

[Amy Robach]

He thought he had a pretty damn good chance, too.

[TJ Holmes]

Robes, how could he. Unbelievable story. But again, he is an innocent man until proven otherwise in a court of law. We always have to remember. But, folks, we appreciate you spending some time with us. This was a significant update. Just wanted to hop on and let you know what was going on. As always, appreciate you spending time with us. I'm tj. On behalf of my dear Amy Robot, we will talk to you all soon.

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[Amy Robach]

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