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The woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in a confidential letter to members of Congress came forward to tell her story.
Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University in California, told The Washington Post that she feared Kavanaugh "inadvertently kills her" as he held her to the ground and groped her when they were all two high school students around 1982.
Ford alleges that another teenager saw a Kavanaugh drunk trying to pull off his clothes at a rally in the suburbs of Maryland. She tried to scream, but Kavanaugh covered her mouth to shut her up, she told the Post. She said she escaped after Kavanaugh's friend entered the room and jumped on both.
"I think it derailed me for four or five years," Ford said in the mail. She described the incident as an "attempted rape" during a therapy session in 2012, according to her therapist's mailing notes.
Kavanaugh denied any wrongdoing.
"I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation," Kavanaugh said in a statement last week. "I did not do it in high school or anytime."
Ford sent the letter to the representative Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) And Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) During the summer, after the appointment of Kavanaugh, to inform him of his concerns.
After weeks of speculation in the media, Feinstein, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who will decide to advance Kavanaugh's appointment to the Senate, confirmed the existence of the letter on Thursday. She said she returned the case to the FBI.
A representative of the Senate Judiciary Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is a story in development. Check back for updates.
Igor Bobic contributed to the report.
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