Christine Blasey Ford will release a memoir five years after she accused then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of assaulting her.
Ford’s memoir, One Way Back, is slated for public release on March 19, and the central topic is her allegations against Kavanaugh. According to Ford, Kavanaugh groped her during a gathering at a house in suburban Maryland in 1982. Kavanaugh vehemently denied the accusations from Ford, in addition to the two other women who stepped forward with claims of misconduct.
“The fact is, he was there in the room with me that night in 1982,” an excerpt reads. “And I believe he knows what happened. Even if it’s hazy from the alcohol, I believe he must know.”
“In One Way Back, Ford recounts the months she spent trying to get information into the right hands without exposing herself and her family to dangerous backlash,” Macmillan Publishers wrote of the memoir. “The book reveals riveting new details about the leadup to her testimony and its overwhelming aftermath and describes how she continues to navigate her way out of the storm.”
“This is the real story behind the headlines and the soundbites, a complex, page-turning memoir of a scientist, a surfer, a mother, a patriot and an unlikely whistleblower. Ford’s experience shows that when one person steps forward to speak truth to power, she adds to a collective whole, causing ‘a ripple that might one day become a wave,'” Macmillan Publishers continued.
Ford stated that if Kavanaugh had apologized for the incident, she might have changed her opinion of the man, saying that she maybe would have thought, “He was a jackass in high school but now he’s not.” However, he denied the event.
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Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court under then-President Donald Trump’s term despite the allegations. The FBI’s supplemental background investigation also found no corroboration with Ford’s allegations.
Ford remains a psychology professor at Palo Alto University and the Stanford University School of Medicine in California.
