Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who wrote the letter accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, is going public with her story, saying she thought he might kill her.
'I thought he might inadvertently kill me,' said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California, to The Washington Post. 'He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.'
Ford said she was able to escape when Kavanaugh's classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them and sent them tumbling.
Christine Blasey Ford is going public with her allegation against Brett Kavanaugh
Christine Blasey Ford said she was worried Brett Kavanaugh might kill her during a drunken . high school assault
She told the newspaper she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house where the party was taking place.
Ford described the attack as taking place during the summer in the early 1980s, when Kavanaugh and a friend — both 'stumbling drunk,' Ford charges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.
In her first public comments on the incident, which came to light last week after Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein referred a 'letter' describing a sexual assault to the FBI, she described what happened when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.
While his friend watched, Ford recounts to The Post, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding against and attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it.
She said she tried to scream and he put his hand over her mouth.
She told the paper she did not recall all the details after such a long time but she thinks the incident occurred in the summer of 1982, when she was 15 and at the end of her sophomore year at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda.
Kavanaugh would have been 17 at the end of his junior year at the all-male Georgetown Prep.
Kavanaugh has denied the charges.
He told The New Yorker: 'I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.'
The classmate said of the allegation, 'I have no recollection of that.'
Ford said there were no parents home when the teenagers gathered at a home in Montgomery County, Md., not far from the Columbia Country Club pool in Chevy Chase, Md., where she spent her summer.
She named two other teenagers who she said were at the party, who did not respond to The Post's inquiries.
She described a small family room where each of them had one beer but that Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge had started drinking earlier and were heavily intoxicated.
She said she left the party to use the bathroom when she was pushed into a bedroom.
She said she has not spoken to Kavanaugh since.
In his senior-class yearbook entry, Kavanaugh made several references to drinking, claiming membership to the 'Beach Week Ralph Club' and 'Keg City Club.'
Judge is a filmmaker and author who has chronicled his recovery from alcoholism in 'Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk,' which described black-out drinking and a culture of partying among students at his high school, which, in the book, he called 'Loyola Prep.'
Kavanaugh is not mentioned in Judge's book, but a passage about partying at the beach one summer references a 'Bart O'Kavanaugh,' who 'puked in someone's car the other night' and 'passed out on his way back from a party.'
Kavanaugh did not respond to the Post's question about whether the name was a pseudonym for him.
Ford said she didn't tell anyone about the incident until 2012 when she was in couples therapy with her husband.
She gave portions of the therapist's notes to The Post.
The newspaper notes they do not mention Kavanaugh by name but say she was attacked by students 'from an elitist boys' school' who went on to become 'highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.'
Additional notes show she described a 'rape attempt' in her late teens.
Brettt Kavanaugh (at right, pictured in his high school yearbook), now a 53-year-old U.S. Supreme Court nominee, was 17 years old at the time a woman alleges he tried to force himself on her sexually – an accusation he flatly denies
FBI request: Diane Feinstein has referred a letter she has received to the Justice Department.
Ford retained Debra Katz, a prominent Washington D.C. attorney involved in the #MeToo movement
Her husband Russell Ford said that in therapy sessions, his wife recounted being trapped in a room with two drunken boys, one of whom pinned her to a bed, molested her and prevented her from screaming.
He said she used Kavanaugh's last name and voiced concern that he — then a federal judge — might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court.
The White House sent The Washington Post a statement Kavanaugh issued last week: 'I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.'
Ford is a clinical psychology professor at Palo Alto University who teaches in a consortium with Stanford University.
She contacted the newspaper through a tip line in early July, when iKavanaugh was on President Donald Trump's shortlist of potential nominees to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
She said she decided in late August not to come forward as she was concerned the publicity would upend her life while not affecting Kavanaugh's confirmation.
'Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?' she told the paper.
But her story leaked as it was reported Feinstein had the letter and was refusing to share it with her Democratic colleagues.
Ford is a registered Democrat.
In late July, she sent a letter to Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo, her California congresswoman. Eshoo passed it to Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the committee that is weighing Kavanaugh's nomination.
Feinstein passed the letter to the FBI - with Ford's name redacted. The agency declined to investigate but sent it to the White House, who passed it on to all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The committee is scheduled to vote on whether or not to move Kavanaugh's nomination forward on Thursday.
Kavanaugh, from the moment Trump announced his nomination, has stressed he has supported and promoted women.
Ford described to the Post her concern her identity would be revealed anyway as the story snow balled. She said a reporter from Buzzfeed approached her outside her college classroom and another reporter was calling her colleagues.
'These are all the ills that I was trying to avoid,' she told the paper. 'Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation.'
Ford hired Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases.
On the advice of Katz, Ford took a lie detector administered by a former FBI agent in early August.
The results, which Katz gave to The Post, concluded that Ford was being truthful.
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