--- title: Blasey Ford Says Alleged Kavanaugh Attack ‘Altered My Life’ description: Christine Blasey Ford will testify that a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh made her too afraid to tell anyone. canonical: https://time.com/5407627/christine-blasey-ford-senate-testimony-brett-kavanaugh/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-26T22:31:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T17:23:34.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Christine Blasey Ford Submits Testimony That Says Alleged Kavanaugh Attack ‘Drastically Altered My Life’ og:description: "It was hard for me to breathe and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me." og:url: https://time.com/5407627/christine-blasey-ford-senate-testimony-brett-kavanaugh/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69ac3feafe1d433c/69893aafe76ad2097863309d/gettyimages-1026739858.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4408 og:image:height: 2480 og:image:alt: Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Brett Kavanaugh To Be Supreme Court Justice og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Christine Blasey Ford Submits Testimony That Says Alleged Kavanaugh Attack ‘Drastically Altered My Life’ twitter:description: "It was hard for me to breathe and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69ac3feafe1d433c/69893aafe76ad2097863309d/gettyimages-1026739858.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Christine Blasey Ford Submits Testimony That Says Alleged Kavanaugh Attack ‘Drastically Altered My Life’ > Sponsored content. 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A new accuser against Brett Kavanaugh said the Supreme Court nominee took part in efforts during high school to get girls intoxicated so that a group of boys could have sex with them._ by [Arit John and Steven T. Dennis](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Arit John and Steven T. Dennis Contributor Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:23 PM UTCPublished: Sep 26, 2018 10:31 PM UTC A new accuser against Brett Kavanaugh said the Supreme Court nominee took part in efforts during high school to get girls intoxicated so that a group of boys could have sex with them. by [Arit John and Steven T. Dennis](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Arit John and Steven T. Dennis Contributor Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:23 PM UTCPublished: Sep 26, 2018 10:31 PM UTC Christine Blasey Ford will testify Thursday that a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “drastically altered my life” and that she was too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone about the details at the time. Ford, in prepared testimony for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday, described in detail an evening during which she thought Kavanaugh was going to rape her at a house party in summer 1982 when they were teenagers. Kavanaugh has strongly denied her claims as well as allegations by two other accusers. Ford’s statement said she didn’t know Kavanaugh well and that she recalls the house party as “almost surely a spur of the moment gathering.” She said that when she went upstairs to use the bathroom, she was pushed into a bedroom and onto a bed and that Kavanaugh got on top of her. “Brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes,” her statement said. She said she tried to yell for help, but that he put his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. “This was what terrified me the most and has had the most lasting impact on my life,” she said. “It was hard for me to breathe and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me.” “I don’t remember as much as I would like to” about the incident, Ford said in her prepared testimony. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5407627/christine-blasey-ford-senate-testimony-brett-kavanaugh/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5407627/christine-blasey-ford-senate-testimony-brett-kavanaugh/"},"headline":"Christine Blasey Ford Submits Testimony That Says Alleged Kavanaugh Attack ‘Drastically Altered My Life’","datePublished":"2018-09-26T22:31:56.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T17:23:34.000Z","description":"\"It was hard for me to breathe and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me\"","url":"https://time.com/5407627/christine-blasey-ford-senate-testimony-brett-kavanaugh/","keywords":["Supreme Court","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69ac3feafe1d433c/69893aafe76ad2097863309d/gettyimages-1026739858.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Arit John and Steven T. 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