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DOCTOR Christine Blasey Ford was deluged with death threats, had her car tampered with and even found a dead animal in her yard after accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her, she has revealed.
In her upcoming book, a copy of which was obtained by The U.S. Sun, the university professor reveals how she was subject to a campaign of hatred after she testified about the alleged assault in front of the Senate, as Kavanaugh was due to be appointed as US Supreme Court Justice.
Ford reveals in her memoir, One Way Back, that she was bombarded with abusive letters and vile pictures – including one of her being strangled – as soon as her allegations that Kavanaugh groped her at a party when she was a teen were made public.
One shocking letter she shares reads, “You are a f**king ugly psycho b***h! Who in the hell would want to f**k you anyway? You are no looker! Very plain and ordinary. Nothing special! . . . (too bad Bill Cosby didn’t get you).”
Another read, “We know where you live, we know where you work, we know where you eat, we know where you shop. Your life is over. [Picture of the grim reaper included.]”
Ford, a research psychologist from northern California, said she had to enlist the help of friends, volunteers, and even some local middle school girls to help deal with the mail as tens of thousands of letters were delivered to her at Palo Alto University.
While the majority of the letters were positive and supportive – many from survivors of sexual abuse – she says there was a large amount of hate mail.
“There was one pile labeled ‘HATE’,” Ford writes in the book.
“It was smaller than the others, but it almost vibrated with rage. I stared at it like it was a dog about to attack me.”
She said many of the letters accused her of lying and “selling her soul” for the Democratic Party.
Ford describes opening and reading the letters as “f**king terrifying” and said she would sit and repeat some of the worst messages and try to imagine the face of the person who wrote it.
She also revealed in the book that her car was tampered with and she found a dead animal in her yard at home – and says even now, she still receives “creepy” phone calls and voicemails.
“When strangers come up to me, most just want to thank me or take a selfie, but others look at me with a flat expression and say, ‘I know who you are’,” she writes.
“It sends shivers down my spine. People have tampered with my car. I have a call blocker on my phone, but I still sometimes receive creepy phone calls and voice mails.”
FORCED TO HIRE SECURITY
Ford recalls how she had to hire security almost immediately after her name was leaked as Kavanaugh’s accuser.
Kavanaugh, who was Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, came under fire in early September 2018 after a series of women claimed he sexually assaulted them in high school and college.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard witness testimonies from September 4-7, 2018, to decide whether to appoint him to the highest court in the US.
“It sends shivers down my spine. People have tampered with my car. I have a call blocker on my phone, but I still sometimes receive creepy phone calls and voice mails.”
Dr Christine Blasey Ford
It then emerged that Ford had written a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein in July accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault while they were both in high school in 1982 – and Ford was asked to testify at a public hearing.
In the book, Ford describes how soon after her name went public, social media was flooded with “wild claims” that she was a major donor to the Democratic Party and was a “pu**y-hat-wearing radical.”
She also immediately began receiving hundreds of text messages and emails from strangers.
Some threatened her with death if she testified against Kavanaugh, while others were survivors of sexual abuse begging her to testify.
HIDING OUT
She said within two days of her name being leaked, she was forced to move into a hotel with her family and hire security guards – helped by a teacher at her kids’ school, who knew a former quarterback at the 49ers.
He arranged for some of the security guards who worked for the NFL team to come to Ford’s hotel, where she hid out with her two sons until the date of the hearing.
She described how bodyguards even had to accompany her boys to school, while she couldn’t work or leave her hotel room as she waited to testify.
Ford finally testified against Kavanaugh at the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 27, 2018, where she alleged she was pushed into a room by a 17-year-old Kavanaugh who was “stumbling drunk” and was groped while his friends watched nearly 36 years ago.
‘STRUGGLING TO BREATHE’
She said he clapped his hand across her mouth when she screamed, pushing down so tightly that she was struggling to breathe and thought she was going to die.
The two tumbled off the bed and she fled the room, locking herself in a bathroom until she heard Kavanaugh and his friends go downstairs, Ford claimed.
Kavanaugh vehemently denied all accusations against him and when asked at the hearing by Senator John Kennedy: “Are Dr. Ford’s allegations true?” he replied: “They’re not accurate as to me.”
He added, “I have not questioned that she might have been sexually assaulted at some point in her life by someone someplace.
“But as to me, I’ve never done this.”
After the hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US Supreme Court and he was appointed Supreme Court Judge in October 2018.
