MOVING FORWARD

‘A New Chapter’: Christine Blasey Ford on Life After the Brett Kavanaugh Hearing

Despite receiving numerous death threats, Ford said the outpouring of support from other survivors showed that her testimony mattered—and she doesn’t regret it one bit.

Christine Blasey Ford recounted the “darkest times” for her and her family, speaking of the constant harassment she faced after publicly testifying in 2018 that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her at a high school party decades earlier (Kavanaugh has denied the allegations). She recounted the fallout in an interview with CBS News Sunday. “That was a really difficult period that I think was the beginning of sort of the darkest times for me,” she said. “I was naïve for sure about [the] consequences and how bad it would be after I testified.” Ford received extremely detailed death threats directed at her and her children, which forced her family to live in a hotel for months and require constant security. But she still doesn’t regret coming forward—she also received an outpouring of support from other survivors who identified with her, affirming her decision to speak up. “I think it would be impossible to read the letters and not—even if you just read 10 of them—think that it didn’t matter,” she said.