The woman who anonymously accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of trying to force himself on her during a high school party in the 1980s has publicly come forward with her allegation.

Christine Blasey Ford, now a California-based clinical psychology professor, wrote a letter in July to her congresswoman, Democrat Rep. Anna Eshoo, outlining how Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her on her back in a Maryland bedroom during a gathering of his Georgetown Preparatory School classmates and attempted to muffle her screams for help with his hand, the Washington Post reported Sunday. But Ford was able to disentangle herself when his friend Mark Judge, who had been watching the encounter, jumped on top of them.