Actually I find it very easy to believe. I have seen something similar when a passenger made a complaint. I expect that the only reason there was not something like the police escort was that there were a couple of us complaining. The FA working First basically said "no one disrupted the flight but you" after the woman next to me was groped by a drunk " FA refused to deal with the drunk but did at least quit going off to visit with her friends. (It was a cross country flight, the FA team has spent the entire time gossiping in the aft galley after a quick service. Due to flight departure time there was no meal service....)

In our case the FA said "well you must have given him a reason to grab you" That's when some of the other passengers jumped in and gave him "you know what" The female actually did ask for the police to meet the plane so she could file a complaint. At that point the FA suddenly got "religion" LOL! (I think the female passenger did file a complaint, I have no idea what happened, I had given her my name and number)

So the "protect myself" feature is alive and well with some FAs. If it looks like it's going to cause them problems they play the "shoot the messenger" game.