--- title: National Sexual Assault Hotline Spiked 147% During Ford Hearing description: Calls also increased 45.6% since Ford's allegations became public canonical: https://time.com/5409239/national-sexual-assault-hotline-spike-christine-blasey-ford-hearing/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-27T22:56:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:00:54.084Z article:section: Politics og:title: National Sexual Assault Hotline Spiked 147% During Christine Blasey Ford Hearing og:description: Calls also increased 45.6% since Ford's allegations became public og:url: https://time.com/5409239/national-sexual-assault-hotline-spike-christine-blasey-ford-hearing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt355beaeeef6e16fc/69893b5eab6d77fb7d6b3cb2/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-hearing-sexual-assault-allegations.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5184 og:image:height: 2916 og:image:alt: Senate Judiciary Committee Brett Kavanaugh nomination hearing, Washington DC, USA - 27 Sep 2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: National Sexual Assault Hotline Spiked 147% During Christine Blasey Ford Hearing twitter:description: Calls also increased 45.6% since Ford's allegations became public twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt355beaeeef6e16fc/69893b5eab6d77fb7d6b3cb2/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-hearing-sexual-assault-allegations.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # National Sexual Assault Hotline Spiked 147% During Christine Blasey Ford Hearing > Sponsored content. 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Christine Blasey Ford's Opening Remarks on Her Allegation of Sexual Assault Against Brett Kavanaugh_ by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Sep 27, 2018 10:56 PM UTC Christine Blasey Ford's Opening Remarks on Her Allegation of Sexual Assault Against Brett Kavanaugh by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Sep 27, 2018 10:56 PM UTC When [Christine Blasey Ford testified](http://time.com/5408177/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-testimony/) on Thursday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about her accusation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 36 years ago, millions of Americans listened to her describe the intimate details of her alleged assault and the trauma she says she has lived with for decades since. For many of those people, her words and the questions she was asked brought up personal memories. Some [shared their experiences on social media](http://time.com/5408503/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-hearings-women-reaction/), others talked to friends or co-workers and others [called into news networks](http://time.com/5408805/christine-blasey-ford-testimony-cspan-caller/) to publicly recall their incidents of assault. It turns out many people also called the National Sexual Assault Hotline looking for help. The National Sexual Assault Hotline saw a 147 percent increase in calls on Thursday compared with a normal weekday on which sexual assault did not dominate the news, according to RAINN, a large anti-sexual violence organization that administers the hotline. The organization told TIME it often sees an uptick in survivors asking for help when sexual assault is in the news. But Thursday’s numbers were even higher than some recent instances. For example, in October 2016 when the Access Hollywood tape of then-candidate Donald Trump saying he could get women and “grab ’em by the p—y” was released, calls to the sexual assault hotline went up [33 percent](https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/health/trump-locker-room-talk-reaction/index.html). Since Ford has come forward with her allegations, RAINN said it has seen a 45.6 percent increase compared to the same time period last year. And over this past weekend when [a second accuser](http://time.com/5404577/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-hearing/), Deborah Ramirez, came forward with an allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, RAINN’s hotline saw an increase of 57 percent compared to an average Friday through Sunday. Kavanaugh has denied all of Ford’s allegations, as well as those leveled by Ramirez and by [a third accuser](http://time.com/5406994/kavanaugh-accuser-swetnick-sexual-attacks/), Julie Swetnick. He testified after Ford on Thursday and again denied all of the allegations, saying that he wanted to clear his name. 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