Melanie Kohler, the Hawaii woman who was sued Wednesday by producer/director Brett Ratner after accusing him in a Facebook post of raping her, is ready for a fight.

She's hired lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who helped dismantle the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act with her victory in the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case United States vs. Windsor.

In a statement, Kaplan told USA TODAY, “We always knew that they would pick one woman to victimize further in an effort to bully other women into silence. Mr. Ratner and his lawyers can try to erase the truth through threats and intimidation, but courts decide cases based on the facts and the law. So our message to Mr. Ratner and his lawyer is short and simple: See you in court."

Ratner's lawsuit quotes a now-deleted Facebook post from Oct. 20 in which Kohler alleged the Rush Hour producer “preyed on me as a drunk girl (and) forced himself upon me" following their meeting at a nightclub approximately 12 years ago. At the time, she was living in Los Angeles and working at Endeavor Talent Agency.

Ratner's legal complaint came the same day he was accused of varying degrees of sexual harassment by six women including actresses Olivia Munn and Natasha Henstridge in a Los Angeles Times story.

As a result, the Associated Press reported he was forced to withdraw from all of his production company's projects at Warner Bros.,. Meanwhile, Playboy Enterprises shelved a Hugh Hefner biopic he was set to direct and produce.

In the Facebook post, Kohler said she had previously refrained from telling anyone about the incident, but was spurred on by the tidal wave of stories about Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men in Hollywood.

"Brett Ratner raped me," Kohler wrote. "I’m saying his name, I’m saying it publicly. Now at least I can look at myself in the mirror and not feel like part of me is a coward or a hypocrite. I’m standing up and saying this happened to me and it was not ok. Come what may, it is the right thing to do.”

Although she said she wishes she could "go back to forgetting" the incident ever took place, "if I do that — if we all do that — it keeps happening. We have to come forward."

Ratner's longtime attorney Marty Singer confirmed to Variety that he told her the post was defamatory and she could be sued if she didn't delete it.

His firm, Lavely Singer, did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.