Well based on the sentence quoted and her story it sounds about as likely that she kept revising her story to a scarier and scarier version until she had rationalized it to herself that it was assault and her friends helped her buy into that paranoia.
Once again I find it a bit odd that there is this reaction to instantly validate her experience. Is it possible that she genuinely thought she was assaulted? Sure. But it is also possible that a number of factors, a desire to fit into this movement, bitterness, anger, paranoia etc that could have played into her experience evolving from something mildly unpleasant to something terrifying.
It is totally possible she convinced herself she was hurt by this by such a strong desire to fit into the metoo movement. It is anything but clear that she was hurt, in the form of sexual assault, from the beginning.
The problem is that genuine sexual assault often follows a similar pattern of denial to acceptance, however it would obviously be for much different reasons. Just because that can be true of actual assault victims and this person followed that pattern, it does not justify her response.
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