The California professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir. Christine Blasey’s Ford’s “One Way Back” is scheduled for publication next March.
According to St. Martin’s Press, Ford would share “interesting new details about the lead-up” to her testimony in 2018; “It was of tremendous consequence,” when she reportedly received death threats and became unable to live in her home; and “how people unknown to him across the world restored his faith in humanity.”
Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and Stanford University School of Medicine, made headlines when she told the Senate Judiciary Committee about a party she and Kavanaugh attended in the early 1980s. She alleged that he cornered her in a bedroom, pinned her down on the bed and tried to remove her clothes while pressing his hand on her mouth. She ran away after one of her friends jumped on the bed and knocked them over.
His emotional testimony also left some Republicans wondering whether Kavanaugh, nominated by Donald Trump, who was president at the time, would have enough votes in the Senate, where the GOP holds just 51-49, to replace retiring Judge Anthony Kennedy. There was majority. Kavanaugh, who vehemently denied his allegations and those of two other women, was cleared 50-48.
“I had never thought of myself as a survivor, a whistleblower, or an activist before the events of 2018,” Ford said in a statement released through St. Martin’s. “But now, I and this book can be a call to action for all the other people who may not have chosen those roles for themselves, but who choose to do the right thing. Sometimes you don’t speak up because you’re a natural interrupter. You do this to create a wave that may one day become a wave.”