Monica Lewinsky said she feels sorry for the woman accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, whose identity was revealed over the weekend.
“i am so sorry this woman was outed without consent. i’m sorry for what she endured as a teenager. and thank her for her bravery stepping forward,” Lewinsky wrote on Twitter Sunday, shortly after Christine Blasey Ford come forward as Kavanaugh’s accuser.
i am so sorry this woman was outed without consent. i’m sorry for what she endured as a teenager. and thank her for her bravery stepping forward. https://t.co/6LI9zXFnMt
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) September 16, 2018
Ford finally went on the record Sunday after her claim that Kavanaugh drunkenly forced himself on her in the 1980s while the pair were high school students was anonymously leaked last week to the press.
Ford originally wrote a confidential letter in July to her local congresswoman, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., outlining her concerns about Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. She agreed to put her name to her allegation on Sunday after she and her associates started being approached for comment.
Ford, now a 51-year-old professor in California, told the Washington Post on Sunday that, during a high school party, Kavanaugh drunkenly pinned her on her back in a bedroom, groped her over her clothes, and attempted to muffle her cries for help with his hand. Kavanaugh has “categorically and unequivocally” denied the accusation.
Kavanaugh worked for Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated former President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, and wrote a memo in 1998 advising that Clinton be pushed to provide “full and complete” testimony regarding his sexual relationship with Lewinsky when she was a White House intern.
Lewinsky, who claims she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after Starr’s probe, now speaks out against cyberbullying.
