Current:Home > ContactChristine Blasey Ford, who testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, will release a memoir in 2024 -WealthMap Solutions
Christine Blasey Ford, who testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, will release a memoir in 2024
View
Date:2025-04-15 06:28:43
NEW YORK (AP) — The California professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had 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, she will share “riveting new details about the lead-up” to her testimony in 2018; “its overwhelming aftermath,” when she allegedly received death threats and was unable to live at her home; and “how people unknown to her around the world restored her faith in humanity.”
Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and the 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 on a bed and tried to take off her clothes, while pressing his hand over her mouth. She fled after a friend of his jumped on the bed and knocked them over.
Her emotional testimony left even some Republicans wondering if Kavanaugh, nominated by President Donald Trump to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, would have enough votes in a Senate where the GOP held just a 51-49 majority. Kavanaugh, who furiously denied her allegations and allegations by two other women, was approved 50-48.
“I never thought of myself as a survivor, a whistleblower, or an activist before the events in 2018,” Ford said in a statement issued Wednesday through St. Martin’s. “But now, what I and this book can offer is a call to all the other people who might not have chosen those roles for themselves, but who choose to do what’s right. Sometimes you don’t speak out because you are a natural disrupter. You do it to cause a ripple that might one day become a wave.”
veryGood! (474)
Related
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- J Balvin returns to his reggaeton roots on the romantic ‘Amigos’ — and no, it is not about Bad Bunny
- Former Polish President Lech Walesa, 80, says he is better but remains hospitalized with COVID-19
- 'Washington Post' journalists stage daylong strike under threat of job cuts
- Paula Abdul settles lawsuit with former 'So You Think You Can Dance' co
- Arizona man connected to 2022 Australian terrorist attack indicted on threat counts
- Indonesian maleo conservation faced setbacks due to development and plans for a new capital city
- AP Election Brief | What to expect in Houston’s mayoral runoff election
- Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
- NFL Week 14 odds: Moneylines, point spreads, over/under
Ranking
- McKinsey to pay $650 million after advising opioid maker on how to 'turbocharge' sales
- Halle Berry Reveals She Had “Rocky Start” Working With Angelina Jolie
- Was 44 too old to be a new mom? Growing cohort of older parents face new risks post Dobbs.
- Former UK leader Boris Johnson returns for second day of COVID-19 inquiry testimony
- $73.5M beach replenishment project starts in January at Jersey Shore
- New York man who won $10 million scratch-off last year wins another $10 million game
- How to decorate for the holidays, according to a 20-year interior design veteran
- Democratic support for Biden ticks up on handling of Israel-Hamas war, AP-NORC poll says
Recommendation
Rams vs. 49ers highlights: LA wins rainy defensive struggle in key divisional game
Julia Roberts Shares Sweet Update on Family Life With Her and Danny Moder’s 3 Kids
Facebook and Instagram are steering child predators to kids, New Mexico AG alleges
A Danish court orders a British financier to remain in pre-trial custody on tax fraud
Krispy Kreme offers a free dozen Grinch green doughnuts: When to get the deal
What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated around the world
Azerbaijan to hold snap presidential election on February 7, shortly before Russia’s vote
Vanessa Hudgens marries baseball player Cole Tucker in custom Vera Wang: See photos