Brett Kavanaugh’s Accuser Comes Forward, Saying He Pinned Her on Bed and Groped Her
The New York Times published an account of the letter on Friday. In her interview with The Post, Ms. Ford offered further detail, saying that one summer in the early 1980s, Mr. Kavanaugh and a friend, both “stumbling drunk,” led her into a bedroom at a home in Montgomery County, Md., in suburban Washington, where teenagers had gathered.
[Read about Ms. Ford’s letter here.]
The woman was wearing a bathing suit under her clothes. While his friend watched, the woman said, Mr. Kavanaugh pinned her down, grinding his body against hers and trying to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it.
She said she was able to escape when Mr. Kavanaugh’s friend, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling. She told The Post that she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house.
In the interview, Ms. Ford said the lasting trauma from the attack had “derailed me substantially for four or five years,” and had caused anxiety for years after that. The Post said Ms. Ford is a registered Democrat and has made small donations to political organizations.
Judge Kavanaugh, in a statement released last week, said: “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.”
Ms. Feinstein — who has been criticized for publicizing the existence of letter at the last minute, after Judge Kavanaugh had already undergone two days of intense questioning in his hearings — called on Sunday for the Senate to give the F.B.I. time to investigate, and said she supported Ms. Ford’s decision to share her story.
In a statement, she called the accusations “extremely serious” and said they “bear heavily on Judge Kavanaugh’s character.” And she urged critics of his accuser to stop “the attacks and stop shaming her.”
“It has always been Mrs. Ford’s decision whether to come forward publicly. For any woman, sharing an experience involving sexual assault — particularly when it involves a politically connected man with influence, authority and power — is extraordinarily difficult,” the senator wrote.