Olympian Oksana Grishuk Drugged With GHB
Former ice dancer and two-time Olympic champion Oksana Grishuk was allegedly drugged with the date-rape drug GHB about a month ago, and is coming forward with her story in hopes it will help someone else:
Oksana Grishuk, who skated for Russia and won Olympic gold in 1994 and 1998 with ice dance partner Evgeny Platov, tells PEOPLE she was having a dinner meeting last month with a business acquaintance she had known for two years at the St. Regis Resort, Monarch Beach, in Dana Point, Calif., to discuss developing a vitamin and nutrition line.She says she started feeling lightheaded over dinner after drinking from the second of two glasses of alcohol that police investigators later told her had been laced with "a common date-rape drug."
"I felt my body having the shakes, I was feeling cold and my lips felt numb and there was a burning sensation in my chest," she says.
Paramedics were called to the scene and rushed her to a nearby hospital where Grishuk, 36, was treated and released. [...]
Apparently both glasses of wine were laced with the drug:
Police found residue on the first glass and collected the pill from the second drink, and preliminary reports indicate that both glasses were drugged, Amorino said. Police also are testing Grishuk's blood.She had the first drink in the hotel lounge, and it was after finishing her second drink, a glass of red wine, in the restaurant, that she noticed a small pill at the bottom and alertly notified the manager. Police have ruled out that any hotel employee was involved in the incident.
Grishuk says she first suspected something was wrong when she noticed her glass of red wine turning cloudy. "He kept pushing me to drink," she said of the acquaintance. "But I'm not a drinker. It was a meeting and I wanted to stay alert."
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