NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� 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. 鈥淥ne Way Back鈥� is scheduled for publication next March.
According to St. Martin's Press, she will share 鈥渞iveting new details about the lead-up鈥� to 鈥渋ts overwhelming aftermath,鈥� when she allegedly received death threats and was unable to live at her home; and 鈥渉ow people unknown to her around the world restored her faith in humanity.鈥�
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 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 left even some Republicans wondering if Kavanaugh, nominated by to replace the would have enough votes in a Senate where the GOP held just a 51-49 majority. Kavanaugh, her allegations and was approved 50-48.
鈥淚 never thought of myself as a survivor, a whistleblower, or an activist before the events in 2018,鈥� Ford said in a statement issued Wednesday through St. Martin鈥檚. 鈥淏ut 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鈥檚 right. Sometimes you don鈥檛 speak out because you are a natural disrupter. You do it to cause a ripple that might one day become a wave.鈥�
Hillel Italie, The Associated Press
