Current:Home > MarketsChristine Blasey Ford, who testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, will release a memoir in 2024 -Clarity Finance Guides
Christine Blasey Ford, who testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, will release a memoir in 2024
View
Date:2025-04-12 15:27:09
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! (62)
Related
- Israel lets Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for first time in over a year as cease
- As the world’s problems grow more challenging, the head of the United Nations gets bleaker
- India-Canada tensions shine light on complexities of Sikh activism in the diaspora
- Ice pops cool down monkeys in Brazil at a Rio zoo during a rare winter heat wave
- Nearly half of US teens are online ‘constantly,’ Pew report finds
- Cracks in Western wall of support for Ukraine emerge as Eastern Europe and US head toward elections
- White House creates office for gun violence prevention
- The threat of wildfires is rising. So is new artificial intelligence solutions to fight them
- A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
- Jan. 6 Capitol rioter Rodney Milstreed, who attacked AP photographer, police officers, sentenced to 5 years in prison
Ranking
- Meta donates $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund
- Does Congress get paid during a government shutdown?
- California governor vetoes bill requiring custody courts to weigh affirmation of gender identity
- Home explosion in West Milford, New Jersey, leaves 5 hospitalized
- How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast
- Home explosion in West Milford, New Jersey, leaves 5 hospitalized
- Water restrictions in rainy Seattle? Dry conditions have 1.5M residents on asked to conserve
- Brian Austin Green and Sharna Burgess Are Engaged
Recommendation
Grammy nominee Teddy Swims on love, growth and embracing change
UK regulators clear way for Microsoft and Activision merger
Britain uses UN speech to show that it wants to be a leader on how the world handles AI
Ukraine targets key Crimean city a day after striking the Russian navy headquarters
EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
Train crash in eastern Pakistan injures at least 30. Authorities suspend 4 for negligence
Ophelia slams Mid-Atlantic with powerful rain and winds after making landfall in North Carolina
An Iowa man who failed to show up for the guilty verdict at his murder trial has been arrested