Not in court.
Not to the media.
Alycia Lane is still that traumatized by what was done to her by former co-anchor Larry Mendte - who purported to be her mentor and friend while pursuing a sadistic smear campaign against her.
And who could blame her?
A day after Mendte was sentenced in federal court for hacking into her personal e-mails hundreds of times, Lane's lawyer and sources close to her said that the damage Mendte did to her is inestimable.
And ongoing.
Lane has been unable to get a job, despite the fact that she was a victim of a vicious career-assassination plot and was a successful anchor before she was deliberately destroyed.
There's been interest, but she fears it's of the prurient kind, people who just want to get a look at the home-wrecking bikini babe that Mendte's vicious leaks to the media made her out to be.
It doesn't help that the mischaracterization of Lane created by Mendte's strategic leaking and distorting of her e-mails gets repeated every time the case comes up in the press.
Lane still can't talk about what was done to her without breaking into tears.
That's why she decided not to make a statement at Monday's sentencing in federal court, even though she'd long planned to do so.
Lane was so overwrought while giving a private victim-impact statement that her lawyer, Paul Rosen, advised her not to speak in court.
Lane gave the statement in Rosen's office to the probation officer preparing the presentence report. Rosen wasn't present during the proceeding.
He saw her afterwards, though, and "she was emotionally drained and upset. I advised her that it was her choice, but it was unnecessary" to speak in court, Rosen said.
The impact statement is part of the confidential presentence report.
But much of the damage that Mendte caused Lane is spelled out in her civil suit against him.
Despite the anguish that Lane has endured - the sleepless nights, the weight loss, the weeping, the uncertainty about her future and what might have been - she didn't ask that Mendte be sent to jail.
"She spent a night in jail in New York, and she did not wish that for anyone, not even Larry Mendte for what he did to her," Rosen said.
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