WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against Kavanaugh made her a target. But she would do it again | CBC Radio LoadedChristine Blasey Ford was propelled into the public sphere in 2018 when she testified in front of the U.S. Senate judiciary committee that Brett Kavanaugh, then a U.S. Supreme Court nominee, sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers. Now she's revisiting those dark days in her new memoir.
It was on the beach that she first told her friends that a man being considered for the U.S. Supreme Court bench had once assaulted her, and that she intended to do something about it.Ford — known to her loved ones as Chrissy Blasey — spends her summers enjoying the warm waters off the coast of California.
But that's not how it played out. Her identity was leaked to the media, forcing her to go public with her story. She was then called upon to testify at a public hearing on the allegations. "The chips were going to fall where they were going to fall, and I had to detach from the outcome because that was just too stressful to think about."Christine Blasey Ford alleges that a drunken, 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh forced her down on a bed, groped her and tried to take off her clothes during a high school gathering in the summer of 1982. She was 15 at the time.
"But on the other hand, I had this outpouring of support from all 50 states, and 42 countries — handwritten letters that were just so powerful and heartwarming and heartbreaking."
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