A woman who briefly dated Jian Ghomeshi—the former CBC host accused of beating several women—tells the Canadian radio station that he ended their last date by throwing her on the ground and punching her over and over until she started crying.

The woman spoke anonymously to the CBC Wednesday, saying she met the popular host about ten years ago at a Christmas media party. The two hit it off and Ghomeshi invited her to come see a taping of his show.

Afterwards, the woman said, they went to a pub where, she said, Ghomeshi came off as "charming."

Then after he drove me back to my car and we chatted in the car and he was getting flirty. So in the car he was looking like he wanted to do a little more, and then he asked me if I would undo my buttons. And I said no and he reached over and grabbed my hair very hard and pulled my head back. And it really took me off guard. I don't know precisely exactly what he was saying, but I am thinking it was something along the lines of, "Do you like this?" And I don't know what I said, but it was a weeknight and it was late and I had to go.

At first, the woman told the CBC, she felt shy—she hadn't dated in a while and blamed herself. So when he asked her to hang out again, she agreed. "I thought, maybe he's just a little too rough and I can sort it out."

Interviewer: What happened on the second date?

Woman: Well I went to another taping of the show but we didn't hang out after that. But then I went to another one and there was a big snowstorm, and a girlfriend of mine came. At the end of the night—we had taken the subway and didn't drive that night because it was too treacherous—he asked me to come out with him, and I said, "Well, I have my friend here," and he agreed to drop her at a subway and then we went on to his house.

And when we were at his house it was fine, he put music on and I was looking at his living room and he had some interesting things in there, and again, we were flirty. But in that flirting he grabbed my hair again but even harder, threw me in front of him on the ground, and started closed-fist pounding me in the head. Repeatedly. Until my ears were ringing. And I started to cry.

Interviewer: Did you struggle?

Woman: No I was in shock. When you get hit in the head, everything rings and it's hard to do anything but try to... there was no conversation about anything and he didn't ask me if I liked to be hit, he didn't ask me... I wasn't expecting it, and he hit me repeatedly.

Interviewer: On the head?

Woman: On the head, on one side of my head over and over. And I'm on the floor and I'm in tears and he said, "You need to go."

I didn't say much at all, I got in a cab and cried all the way to my friend's place. I didn't even go home, I was a mess. I went to my friend's place and stayed at her house and cried all night.

The interviewer notes that the friend—a nurse—corroborated the woman's story.

The woman never pressed charges and said that for years after the alleged attack she'd have to change the channel when CBC commercials came on. When asked why she came forward now, ten years later, she said it was because she didn't think anyone would believe her when it happened.

"It's too difficult to prove. It's embarassing, in the moment I was so distraught all I wanted to do was curl up in a corner. I wasn;t expecting to go out with this man who seemingly charming and nice, I come from an educated family and I thought, 'Wow my dad would really like you,' and then to get physically abused like that, it was shocking," she told the radio station.

"I can't understand why this man—who, he's such a great tv personality and radio personality—has this dark, dark side to him. And it's been hard because I've had to just surpress it and just put it down to some bad experience," she said. "But when this came to light a few days ago, it gave me permission to speak and I thought, 'Maybe someone will listen to me now.' Because I don't think if I had said anything back then that anyone would care."

The CBC says a second woman is scheduled to appear on the station tomorrow to describe a similar "act of aggression" by Ghomeshi.

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