Connie Chung reveals she was sexually abused in a powerful letter to Christine Blasey Ford

In a powerful comment The Washington Post In the form of a letter to Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford, journalist Connie Chung reveals that she is a victim of sexual assault.

“I, too, was sexually abused – not 36 years ago, but about 50 years ago,” Chung writes. “I kept my dirty little secret. Silence for five decades.”

She says the perpetrator was her family’s trusted doctor, the man who gave birth to her as a baby in 1946. Similar to Ford’s recollection before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the exact time and date may not be clear in her recollection, but Chung is certainly rewriting WHO attacked her.

“It was the 1960s. I was in college. The sexual revolution was in full swing. The exact date and year are unclear. But the details of the event are vivid – etched in my memory forever. Am I sure who did it? Oh yes.”, 100 percent.”

Similarly, Ford told the committee her certainty about Kavanaugh when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) asked how she was sure it was him. “In the same way that I’m sure I’m talking to you right now,” Ford said.

The details Chung describes in the piece are painful to read (and could be triggering for some). She visited her doctor to ensure birth control and found herself on his exam table while waiting for her first gynecological exam.

“As I stared at the ceiling, his right index finger massaged my clitoris. While he inserted his right middle finger into my vagina, he moved both fingers rhythmically. He coached me verbally in a gentle voice: “Just breathe. Ah-ah.” Mimicking the sound of gentle breathing, he assured me. Suddenly I had an orgasm for the first time in my life. Then he leaned in, kissed my lips, and slipped behind the curtain into his office area. I couldn’t even look at myself, I quickly got dressed and went home.

Chung believes she may have told one of her sisters, but she didn’t tell her parents or report the doctor to authorities. “It never occurred to me to protect other women. Please understand that I was actually embarrassed by my sexual naivety,” she writes. “I was in my 20s and knew nothing about sex. I just wanted to put the incident in my head and protect my family.”

In another heartbreaking detail (and an additional aspect of why some women don’t report abuse), she says her mother couldn’t read or write in English – and she couldn’t drive. (Her parents emigrated from China a year before she was born.) So that she wouldn’t have to return to the doctor’s office, Chung told her mother that he lived too far away. She eventually told her husband, but can’t remember exactly when.

Like Ford, she says she’s “scared” about making this public revelation. “I can not sleep. I can not eat. Can you?” She asks. “If you can’t, I understand. I’m scared, I’m scared, I can’t even cry.”

“I wish I could forget this truthful event, but I can’t because it is the truth. I am writing to you because I know that exact dates, exact years are insignificant. We remember exactly what happened to us and who did it to us.” We remember the truth forever. Bravo, Christine, for telling the truth.

Bravo, both of you.

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