Christine Blasey Ford

Ford grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.{{cite web |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?451895-1/professor-blasey-ford-testifies-sexual-assault-allegations-part-1 |title=Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Hearing, Professor Blasey Ford Testimony |date=September 27, 2018 |publisher=C-SPAN |access-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-date=May 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513055821/https://www.c-span.org/video/?451895-1%2Fprofessor-blasey-ford-testifies-sexual-assault-allegations-part-1 |url-status=live }} Her parents are Paula K. and Ralph G. Blasey Jr.,{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 27, 2018 |first1=Jessica |last1=Contrera |first2=Ian |last2=Shapira |first3=Emma |last3=Brown |first4=Steve |last4=Hendrix |title=Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford moved 3,000 miles to reinvent her life. It wasn't far enough. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-ford-wanted-to-flee-the-us-to-avoid-brett-kavanaugh-now-she-may-testify-against-him/2018/09/22/db942340-bdb1-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html |access-date=October 6, 2019 |archive-date=September 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922234955/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-ford-wanted-to-flee-the-us-to-avoid-brett-kavanaugh-now-she-may-testify-against-him/2018/09/22/db942340-bdb1-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |publisher=Snopes |date=September 17, 2018 |title=Did Judge Martha Kavanaugh 'Rule Against' the Parents of Her Son's Accuser, Christine Blasey-Ford? |first=Dan |last=MacGuill |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brett-kavanaugh-foreclosure-accuser-parents/ |access-date=October 6, 2019 }}{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Examiner |date=September 17, 2018 |first=Becket |last=Adams |title=No, Brett Kavanaugh's mother didn't foreclose on his accuser's parents' house |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/no-brett-kavanaughs-mother-didnt-foreclose-on-his-accusers-parents |access-date=October 6, 2019 |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012192830/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/no-brett-kavanaughs-mother-didnt-foreclose-on-his-accusers-parents |url-status=live }} registered Republicans.{{cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 27, 2018 |first1=Jessica |last1=Contrera |first2=Ian |last2=Shapira |title=Christine Blasey Ford's family has been nearly silent amid outpouring of support |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-fords-own-family-has-been-nearly-silent-amid-outpouring-of-support/2018/09/26/49a3f4a6-c0d6-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html |access-date=October 6, 2019 |archive-date=September 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926152655/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-fords-own-family-has-been-nearly-silent-amid-outpouring-of-support/2018/09/26/49a3f4a6-c0d6-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html |url-status=live }} She has two brothers, Tom and Ralph III.

From 1978 through 1984, she attended the Holton-Arms School, a private, all-girls university-preparatory school in Bethesda, Maryland.{{cite news |date=September 26, 2018 |title=Read Christine Blasey Ford's Prepared Statement |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-prepared-statement.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927000811/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-prepared-statement.html |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |url-status=live }} While on her regional sports team for diving, she accompanied diver Greg Louganis on a trip to the White House to discuss the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott.{{Cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/17/metoo-spurred-christine-blasey-ford-to-open-up-about-alleged-attack-year-before-kavanaugh-nomination-friends-say/ |newspaper=The Mercury News |title=Christine Blasey Ford feared an avalanche of attacks if she went public about Kavanaugh, friends say |date=September 17, 2018 |access-date=September 18, 2018 |first=Julia Prodis |last=Sulek |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918054758/https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/17/metoo-spurred-christine-blasey-ford-to-open-up-about-alleged-attack-year-before-kavanaugh-nomination-friends-say/ |archive-date=September 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}

She earned an undergraduate degree in experimental psychology in 1988 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a master's degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University in 1991. In 1996, she received a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Southern California. Her 1995 dissertation was entitled Measuring Young Children's Coping Responses to Interpersonal Conflict.{{cite web |url=https://www.paloaltou.edu/sites/default/files/pau_2015_2016_catalog_10_27_15_final.pdf |title=Palo Alto University 2015-16 Catalog |publisher=Palo Alto University |page=190 |year=2016 |access-date=September 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917105155/https://www.paloaltou.edu/sites/default/files/pau_2015_2016_catalog_10_27_15_final.pdf |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }} In 2009, she earned a master's degree in epidemiology, with a focus on the subject of biostatistics,{{Cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-christine-blasey-ford-20180918-story.html |access-date=September 18, 2018 |date=September 18, 2018 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Alene |last=Tchekmedyian |title=Christine Blasey Ford agonized about going public with Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918140022/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-christine-blasey-ford-20180918-story.html |archive-date=September 18, 2018 |url-status=live }} from Stanford University School of Medicine.

Ford has worked in the academic and private sector as a biostatistician and research psychologist. Since 1998, she has worked as a research psychologist and biostatistician in the Stanford School of Medicine psychiatry department.{{cite news |first1=Kimberly |last1=Veklerov |first2=Erin |last2=Allday |first3=Ashley |last3=McBride |title=Kavanaugh accuser, a Palo Alto professor, is respected among academic colleagues |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-palo-13236825.php |publisher=Hearst |access-date=January 11, 2019 |date=September 18, 2018 |archive-date=May 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521075101/https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-palo-13236825.php |url-status=live }} Since 2011, she has been a psychology professor in the PGSP-Stanford Consortium for Clinical Psychology, a collaborative program between Palo Alto University and Stanford.{{cite web |title=Psy.D. Consortium Faculty {{!}} Palo Alto University |url=https://www.paloaltou.edu/graduate-programs/psyd-pgsp-stanford-consortium/faculty |website=www.paloaltou.edu |publisher=Palo Alto University |access-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-date=April 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420134543/https://www.paloaltou.edu/graduate-programs/psyd-pgsp-stanford-consortium/faculty |url-status=live }}

Ford teaches subjects including psychometrics, study methodologies, clinical trials, and statistics to doctoral students and serves on dissertation committees.{{Cite news |quote=She has been widely published in her field. |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648803684/who-is-christine-blasey-ford-the-woman-accusing-brett-kavanaugh-of-sexual-assaul |publisher=NPR |title=Who Is Christine Blasey Ford, The Woman Accusing Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Assault? |date=September 17, 2018 |access-date=September 18, 2018 |first=Meg |last=Anderson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917225134/https://www.npr.org/2018/09/17/648803684/who-is-christine-blasey-ford-the-woman-accusing-brett-kavanaugh-of-sexual-assaul |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }} She has also performed consulting work for multiple pharmaceutical companies.{{Cite news |url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/09/18/political-cornflakes-who/ |access-date=September 18, 2018 |date=September 18, 2018 |title=Who is Christine Blasey Ford? We're just beginning to find out |newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918231018/https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/09/18/political-cornflakes-who/ |archive-date=September 18, 2018 |url-status=live }} She formerly worked as a director of biostatistics at Corcept Therapeutics, and as a biostatistical consultant for Titan Pharmaceuticals, and Brain Resource. She has collaborated with FDA, academic and industry statisticians, including leading roundtable discussions at the American Statistical Association's Annual FDA-Industry meetings that focus on statistical analyzes in industry-FDA interactions.{{cite web |title=ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Statistics Workshop |url=http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/fdaworkshop/index.cfm?fuseaction=AbstractDetails&AbstractID=301356 |website=Amstat.org |publisher=American Statistical Association |access-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-date=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127035439/http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/fdaworkshop/index.cfm?fuseaction=AbstractDetails&AbstractID=301356 |url-status=live }} She is widely published within her field.{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-to-watch-for-during-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-hearing/ |first=Ed |last=O'Keefe |author-link=Ed O'Keefe (journalist) |title=What to watch for during Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford hearing |date=September 27, 2018 |work=CBS News |access-date=September 28, 2018 |quote=She is a widely-published professor at Palo Alto University, teaching clinical psychology to graduate students. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928044331/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-to-watch-for-during-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-hearing/ |archive-date=September 28, 2018 |url-status=live }}

Ford "specializes in designing statistical models for research projects in order to make sure they come to accurate conclusions", as summarized by Helena Chmura Kraemer, a Stanford professor emeritus in biostatistics who co-authored a book and several articles with Ford.{{Cite news |first=Casey |last=Tolan |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/16/kavanaugh-accuser-palo-alto-professor-christine-blasey-ford-lauded-as-truth-teller/ |title=Kavanaugh accuser lauded as 'truth teller'; senator says nomination may see delay |date=September 16, 2018 |newspaper=The Mercury News |access-date=September 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917114530/https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/16/kavanaugh-accuser-palo-alto-professor-christine-blasey-ford-lauded-as-truth-teller/ |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }} Ford has written or co-written several books about psychological topics, including depression. Her other research topics published in academic journal articles have included child abuse and the September 11 attacks.{{Cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-is-christine-blasey-ford-the-professor-who-accused-brett-kavanaugh-of-sexual-misconduct/ |publisher=Fox News |title=Who is Christine Blasey Ford, the professor who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct? |date=September 17, 2018 |access-date=September 18, 2018 |first=Kaitlyn |last=Schallhorn |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917210843/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/17/who-is-christine-blasey-ford-professor-who-accused-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct.html |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }} In 2015, she co-authored a book titled How Many Subjects? Statistical Power Analysis in Research.{{Cite news |title=Who is Christine Blasey Ford, Brett Kavanaugh's accuser? |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=September 16, 2018 |access-date=September 18, 2018 |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/who-christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-accuser/y6KiC7AscvbH1rpPHRS5LK/ |first=Bob |last=D'Angelo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918054631/https://www.ajc.com/news/who-christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-accuser/y6KiC7AscvbH1rpPHRS5LK/ |archive-date=September 18, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{sfn|Kraemer|Blasey|2015|p={{page needed|date=July 2023}}}} Her research into the social impact of hiding one's sexual orientation was published in 2016 in the journal Behavior Therapy, and reviewed by psychologist William Gibson of the American Psychological Association, who found their research "demonstrates that issues of identity have relevance to mental health outcomes in ways that much of previous work misses."{{Cite journal|journal=Division 44 Newsletter|date=April 2016|title=Research: Concealing sexual orientation is connected to social phobia|first=William|last=Gibson|url=http://www.apadivisions.org/division-44/publications/newsletters/division/2016/04/social-phobia.aspx|access-date=September 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918090920/http://www.apadivisions.org/division-44/publications/newsletters/division/2016/04/social-phobia.aspx|archive-date=September 18, 2018|url-status=live}}

{{see also|Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination}}

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In early July 2018, after Judge Brett Kavanaugh was reported to be on Donald Trump's shortlist to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ford contacted both The Washington Post and her congresswoman, Anna Eshoo. On July 20, eleven days after Trump nominated Kavanaugh, Eshoo met with Ford, becoming convinced of her credibility and noting that Ford seemed "terrified" that her identity as an accuser might become public. Eshoo and Ford decided to take the matter to Senator Dianne Feinstein, one of Ford's senators in California and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would deliberate Kavanaugh's nomination.{{cite news |last=DeBonis |first=Mike |date=September 19, 2018 |title='I told her that I believed her': Calif. lawmaker describes meeting with Kavanaugh accuser |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/19/i-told-her-that-i-believed-her-calif-lawmaker-describes-meeting-with-kavanaugh-accuser/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920001410/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/19/i-told-her-that-i-believed-her-calif-lawmaker-describes-meeting-with-kavanaugh-accuser/ |archive-date=September 20, 2018 |url-status=live }} In a July 30, 2018 letter to Feinstein, Ford alleged that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when both were in high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and stated that she expected her story to be kept confidential.{{Cite news |url= https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/16/politics/blasey-ford-kavanaugh-letter-feinstein/index.html |title= Read the letter Christine Blasey Ford sent accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct |publisher=CNN |access-date=September 17, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180917025242/https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/16/politics/blasey-ford-kavanaugh-letter-feinstein/index.html |archive-date= September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }} In August that year, Ford took a polygraph test that was administered by a former FBI agent, who concluded Ford was being truthful when attesting to the accuracy of her allegations.

Feinstein said that owing to her confidentiality commitment to Ford,{{Cite news |url=https://ktla.com/2018/09/17/sen-feinstein-says-kavanaughs-accuser-wanted-her-to-keep-letter-detailing-allegations-confidential |title=Sen. Feinstein Says Kavanaugh's Accuser Wanted Her to Keep Letter Detailing Allegations Confidential |date= September 18, 2018 |publisher=KTLA |location=Los Angeles, California |access-date= September 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922024732/https://ktla.com/2018/09/17/sen-feinstein-says-kavanaughs-accuser-wanted-her-to-keep-letter-detailing-allegations-confidential |archive-date=September 22, 2018 |url-status=live }} she did not raise the issue in the initial Kavanaugh confirmation proceedings.{{cite news |last=Haberkorn |first=Jennifer |date=September 19, 2018 |title=The GOP wants to know why Feinstein didn't come forward sooner with Kavanaugh allegation |url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-congress-kavanaugh-feinstein-20180919-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919223502/http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-congress-kavanaugh-feinstein-20180919-story.html |archive-date=September 19, 2018 |url-status=live }} On September 12, The Intercept reported (without naming Ford) that Feinstein was withholding a Kavanaugh-related document from fellow Judiciary Committee Democrats.{{cite news |last=Grim |first=Ryan |author-link=Ryan Grim |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/09/12/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-dianne-feinstein/ |title=Dianne Feinstein Withholding Brett Kavanaugh Document From Fellow Judiciary Committee Democrats |date=September 12, 2018 |newspaper=The Intercept |access-date=September 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919235823/https://theintercept.com/2018/09/12/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-dianne-feinstein/ |archive-date=September 19, 2018 |url-status=live }} On September 13,{{cite web |url=https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=FB52FCD4-29C8-4856-A679-B5C6CC553DC4 |title=Feinstein Statement on Kavanaugh |date=September 13, 2018 |website=feinstein.senate.gov |publisher=Senator Dianne Feinstein |access-date=October 7, 2018 |archive-date=October 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007034514/https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=FB52FCD4-29C8-4856-A679-B5C6CC553DC4 |url-status=live }} Feinstein referred Ford's letter to the FBI, which redacted Ford's name and forwarded the letter to the White House as an update to Kavanaugh's background check.{{cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/13/dianne-feinstein-refers-letter-on-supreme-court-nominee-kavanaugh-to-feds.html |title=Sen. Dianne Feinstein refers mysterious letter about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to federal authorities |last=Higgins |first=Tucker |date=September 13, 2018 |publisher=CNBC |access-date=September 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918160537/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/13/dianne-feinstein-refers-letter-on-supreme-court-nominee-kavanaugh-to-feds.html |archive-date=September 18, 2018 |url-status=live }} The White House in turn sent the letter to the full Senate Judiciary Committee.

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On September 16, after media reported anonymous allegations and reporters started to track down her identity, Ford went public. Ford said she had wrestled with the choice to make her identity known, weighing the potential negative impact it could have on her,{{Cite news |url=https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/kavanaugh-ford-hearing.php |title=Christine Blasey Ford, Brett Kavanaugh, and a nomination in limbo |access-date=September 18, 2018 |date=September 18, 2018 |newspaper=Columbia Journalism Review |first=Pete |last=Vernon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918150625/https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/kavanaugh-ford-hearing.php |archive-date=September 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/16/media/reliable-sources-09-16-18/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=September 18, 2018 |title=Post reporter says Kavanaugh accuser was 'terrified about going public' |date=September 16, 2018 |first=Brian |last=Stelter |author-link=Brian Stelter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917114054/https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/16/media/reliable-sources-09-16-18/index.html |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }} but ultimately spoke to The Washington Post, alleging that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982 when she was 15 and he was 17.{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh/trump-court-nominees-accuser-has-not-agreed-to-testify-senator-idUSKCN1LY2E4 |access-date=September 18, 2018 |date=September 18, 2018 |work=Reuters |title=Doubts arise over whether Trump court nominee's accuser will testify |first=Lawrence |last=Hurley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918163531/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh/trump-court-nominees-accuser-has-not-agreed-to-testify-senator-idUSKCN1LY2E4 |archive-date=September 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-comes-forward-in-interview-with-the-washington-post/ |work=CBS News |access-date=September 18, 2018 |date=September 16, 2018 |title=Woman who wrote letter accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault steps forward |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917200729/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-comes-forward-in-interview-with-the-washington-post/ |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=http://www.wbrc.com/2018/09/17/accuser-story-attack-roils-plan-kavanaugh-vote/ |access-date=September 18, 2018 |publisher=WBRC |location=Birmingham, Alabama |title=Hearing sets up dramatic showdown between Kavanaugh, accuser |first=Alan |last=Fram |agency=Associated Press |date=September 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919025143/http://www.wbrc.com/2018/09/17/accuser-story-attack-roils-plan-kavanaugh-vote/ |archive-date=September 19, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Wright |first1=Jamie M. |last2=Clark |first2=Jennifer Hayes |last3=Evans |first3=Heather K. |title='They Were Laughing': Congressional Framing of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Sexual Assault Allegations on Twitter |journal=Political Research Quarterly |date=March 2022 |volume=75 |issue=1 |pages=147–159 |doi=10.1177/1065912920987631 |s2cid=234172767 }} She said that, while his friend Mark Judge watched, Kavanaugh, intoxicated, held her down on a bed with his body, grinding against and groping her, covering her mouth when she tried to scream and trying to pull her clothes off.{{Cite news |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Palo-Alto-woman-who-accused-Kavanaugh-of-sexual-13234048.php |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=September 18, 2018 |title=Palo Alto woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct steps into spotlight |date=September 16, 2018 |first=Sheryl Gay |last=Stolberg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917053841/https://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Palo-Alto-woman-who-accused-Kavanaugh-of-sexual-13234048.php |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.wsbtv.com/news/breaking-news/report-brett-kavanaugh-s-accuser-over-sexual-assault-in-1980s-reveals-identity/835466639 |publisher=WSB-TV |location=Atlanta, Georgia |title=Brett Kavanaugh for SCOTUS: Senate to hold new hearing Monday on Kavanaugh sexual assault allegation |date=September 17, 2018 |access-date=September 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916213637/https://www.wsbtv.com/news/breaking-news/report-brett-kavanaugh-s-accuser-over-sexual-assault-in-1980s-reveals-identity/835466639 |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |url-status=live }} Finding it hard to breathe, she thought Kavanaugh was going to accidentally kill her. She recounted escaping when Judge jumped on the bed and toppled them. As corroboration of her account, Ford provided the Post with the polygraph results as well as session notes from her couples therapist written in 2012.

The therapist's notes do not name Kavanaugh but record Ford's claim of being attacked by students "from an elitist boys' school" who went on to become "highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington". The therapist's notes also say four boys were involved, which Ford attributed to an error by the therapist; Ford clarified in 2018 that four boys were at the party but only two were involved in the incident. Ford's husband recalled that she had used Kavanaugh's last name in her 2012 description of the incident, and that she said he might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court. In an individual therapy session in 2013, Ford described a "rape attempt" that occurred in her late teens.

Kavanaugh denied Ford's allegations.{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-orrin-hatch-says-kavanaugh-denied-being-at-party-described-by-accuser-ford |title=Sen. Orrin Hatch says Kavanaugh denied being at party described by accuser Ford |last=Chamberlain |first=Samuel |date=September 17, 2018 |publisher=Fox News |access-date=September 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918004312/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/17/sen-orrin-hatch-says-kavanaugh-denied-being-at-party-described-by-accuser-ford.html |archive-date=September 18, 2018 |url-status=live }} Attorneys Debra Katz, Lisa Banks and Michael Bromwich represented Ford pro bono in the process of going public with her statements about Kavanaugh.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-sexual-assault.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Kavanaugh's Nomination in Turmoil as Accuser Says He Assaulted Her Decades Ago |first=Sheryl Gay |last=Stolberg |date=September 16, 2018 |access-date=September 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917213236/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-sexual-assault.html |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/former-fed-prosecutor-joins-kavangaugh-accusers-legal-team_us_5ba6bef6e4b0181540dda724 |title=Former Federal Prosecutor Joins Kavanaugh Accuser's Legal Team |last=Papenfuss |first=Mary |date=September 23, 2018 |newspaper=HuffPost |access-date=September 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924095719/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/former-fed-prosecutor-joins-kavangaugh-accusers-legal-team_us_5ba6bef6e4b0181540dda724 |archive-date=September 24, 2018 |url-status=live }} Democratic adviser Ricki Seidman, who helped prepare Anita Hill for her testimony against Clarence Thomas during his 1991 Supreme Court nomination hearings, was brought in to personally advise Ford in navigating a potential hearing.{{Cite news |last=Karni |first=Annie |title=Kavanaugh accuser leans on Democratic operative for advice - Christine Blasey Ford is looking to Ricki Seidman, who helped prepare Anita Hill, to help her navigate a potential hearing |work=Politico |date=September 20, 2018 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/20/kavanaugh-accuser-democratic-operative-advice-833013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180924130757/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/20/kavanaugh-accuser-democratic-operative-advice-833013 |archive-date=September 24, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=October 6, 2019 }}

On September 18, Ford's attorneys sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley requesting that the FBI investigate the incident before the Senate held a hearing on Ford's allegations to "ensure that the crucial facts and witnesses in this matter are assessed in a non-partisan manner, and that the Committee is fully informed before conducting any hearing or making any decisions". The letter additionally noted the significant public support Ford had received, but also severe harassment including death threats, forcing her to leave her home.{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/politics/ford-letter-fbi/index.html |title=Ford wants FBI investigation before testifying |last=Tatum |first=Sophie |date=September 18, 2018 |publisher=CNN |access-date=September 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919013826/https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/politics/ford-letter-fbi/index.html |archive-date=September 19, 2018 |url-status=live }} The same day, a crowdfunding campaign was created to defray Ford's security costs, surpassing its $100,000 goal in less than 24 hours.{{cite magazine |url=http://fortune.com/2018/09/19/blasey-ford-supreme-court-nominee-kavanaugh-gofundme/ |title=A GoFundMe for Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford's Private Security Met Its Goal in Just Hours |last=Shoot |first=Brittany |date=September 19, 2018 |magazine=Fortune |access-date=September 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920011336/http://fortune.com/2018/09/19/blasey-ford-supreme-court-nominee-kavanaugh-gofundme/ |archive-date=September 20, 2018 |url-status=live }}

On September 21, President Trump tweeted about Ford, saying that if Ford's allegations were true, either she or her parents would have reported them at the time of the event.{{cite news |last1=Cauterucci |first1=Christina |title=Donald Trump May Not Have the Most Advanced Understanding of How Sexual Assault Trauma Works |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/donald-trump-christine-blasey-ford-police-report-memory.html |work=Slate |date=21 September 2018 }} Fortune called the tweet an attempt "to undermine her allegation"{{cite magazine |last=Bach |first=Natasha |date=September 21, 2018 |title=Trump Swipes at Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford on Twitter |url=http://fortune.com/2018/09/21/kavanaugh-ford-trump-twitter/ |magazine=Fortune |access-date=September 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921191248/http://fortune.com/2018/09/21/kavanaugh-ford-trump-twitter/ |archive-date=September 21, 2018 |url-status=live }} and Republican Senator Susan Collins—at the time considered a key swing vote on Kavanaugh's nomination—said she was "appalled" by Trump's tweet, calling it "inappropriate and wrong".{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/politics/susan-collins-kavanaugh-accuser-trump/index.html |title=Susan Collins 'appalled' by Trump's tweet about Christine Blasey Ford |last1=Foran |first1=Clare |last2=Acosta |first2=Jim |author2-link=Jim Acosta |date=September 21, 2018 |publisher=CNN |access-date=September 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922011835/https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/politics/susan-collins-kavanaugh-accuser-trump/index.html |archive-date=September 22, 2018 |url-status=live }} Trump's statements about Ford prompted sexual assault victims to start tweeting using the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport to share reasons for silence.{{cite web |url=https://www.instyle.com/news/why-i-didnt-report-trump-kavanaugh-reaction |first=Sam |last=Reed |title=#WhyIDidntReport Is the Most Powerful Reaction to Trump's Comments About Sexual Assault |website=InStyle |date=September 21, 2018 |access-date=December 17, 2018 |archive-date=January 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102183927/https://www.instyle.com/news/why-i-didnt-report-trump-kavanaugh-reaction |url-status=live }} Trump issued several more statements, including a tweet alleging that Kavanaugh was "under assault by radical left wing politicians".{{cite news |last1=Malloy |first1=Allie |title=Trump unleashes on Kavanaugh accuser |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/21/politics/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-tweets/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=September 22, 2018 |date=September 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922002326/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/21/politics/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-tweets/index.html |archive-date=September 22, 2018 |url-status=live }} Trump's attacks on Ford were widely characterized by his critics as "victim blaming."{{cite news |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/opinion-on-the-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-case-stop-blaming-the-victim-10763993 |title=It's 2018 — Why Are We Still Blaming the Victim? |first=Vicki |last=Burns |work=Miami New Times |date=September 24, 2018 |access-date=June 28, 2019 |archive-date=September 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926120010/https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/opinion-on-the-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-case-stop-blaming-the-victim-10763993 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/brett-kavanaugh-blame-women-anita-hill-cosby-weinstein |date=September 21, 2018 |title=The Brett Kavanaugh case shows we still blame women for the sins of men |first=Rebecca |last=Solnit |access-date=June 28, 2019 |archive-date=June 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627111302/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/brett-kavanaugh-blame-women-anita-hill-cosby-weinstein |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/10/3/17932024/trump-brett-kavanaugh-christine-ford-julie-swetnick |title=Trump's mockery of Christine Blasey Ford perpetuates rape culture |first=Anna |last=North |date=October 3, 2018 |work=Vox |access-date=June 28, 2019 |archive-date=April 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422212441/https://www.vox.com/2018/10/3/17932024/trump-brett-kavanaugh-christine-ford-julie-swetnick |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/alyssa-milano-donald-trump-victim-blaming-sexual-assault-twitter |title=Alyssa Milano Calls Out Donald Trump's Victim Blaming as a Survivor of Sexual Assault |work=W |first=Marissa G. |last=Muller |date=September 21, 2018 |access-date=June 28, 2019 |archive-date=August 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804165105/https://www.wmagazine.com/story/alyssa-milano-donald-trump-victim-blaming-sexual-assault-twitter |url-status=live }}

On September 27, the Senate Judiciary Committee held an additional day of public hearings to discuss her allegations. Ford and Kavanaugh were the only witnesses scheduled.{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/what-know-about-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-senate-hearing-n913376 |title=What to know about the Brett Kavanaugh-Christine Blasey Ford Senate hearing |last=Shabad |first=Rebecca |date=September 27, 2018 |work=NBC News |access-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928030438/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/what-know-about-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-senate-hearing-n913376 |archive-date=September 28, 2018 |url-status=live }} Ford testified that Kavanaugh "groped me and tried to take off my clothes", and that "I believed he was going to rape me."{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-accuser-ford-gives-gripping-emotional-opening-statement.html |title=Kavanaugh accuser Ford describes her alleged attackers' 'laughter' in gripping testimony |first=Christina |last=Wilkie |date=September 27, 2018 |publisher=CNBC |access-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928003319/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-accuser-ford-gives-gripping-emotional-opening-statement.html |archive-date=September 28, 2018 |url-status=live }} Kavanaugh had previously denied all allegations of sexual assault as "totally false and outrageous" and testified separately later in the day.{{Cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kananaugh-ford-hearing-live-blog-supreme-court-nominee-and-professor-testify-on-sexual-assault-accusations |title=Kavanaugh, Ford hearing live blog: Supreme Court nominee and professor testify on sexual assault accusations |first1=Kathleen |last1=Joyce |first2=Shelley |last2=Ng |first3=Nicole |last3=Darrah |first4=Matt |last4=Richardson |date=September 27, 2018 |publisher=Fox News |access-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927155441/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/27/kananaugh-ford-hearing-live-blog-supreme-court-nominee-and-professor-testify-on-sexual-assault-accusations.html |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |url-status=live }} Republican members of the committee did not question Ford directly; that was done by Rachel Mitchell, a career prosecutor from Arizona retained by the committee's Republican majority to question Ford on their behalf.{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-live-testimony-today-after-dr-ford-sexual-assault-allegations-2018-09-27/ |first1=Emily |last1=Tillett |first2=Kathryn |last2=Watson |first3=Grace |last3=Segers |date= September 27, 2018 |title=Brett Kavanaugh confirmation: Kavanaugh testifies following Ford's questioning on sex assault allegations - live updates |access-date=September 27, 2018 |work=CBS News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927215520/https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-live-testimony-today-after-dr-ford-sexual-assault-allegations-2018-09-27/ |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |url-status=live }} Alternating with Mitchell's questions, Democratic committee members questioned Ford themselves.{{cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/the-formal-ping-pong-of-the-questioning-in-the-kavanaugh-ford-hearing |title=The Formal Ping-Pong of the Questioning in the Kavanaugh-Ford Hearing |last=Wallace-Wells |first=Benjamin |date=September 27, 2018 |newspaper=The New Yorker |access-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927165748/https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/the-formal-ping-pong-of-the-questioning-in-the-kavanaugh-ford-hearing |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |url-status=live }}

Following the hearing, Mitchell produced a report stating that she did not believe a reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against Kavanaugh based on the evidence presented to the committee and adding that there were multiple inconsistencies in Ford's testimony.{{Cite news |url=https://www.axios.com/brett-kavanaugh-rachel-mitchell-prosecutor-memo-2c3233cc-1d42-416b-af04-02700aa9a711.html |title=Read prosecutor Rachel Mitchell's memo about the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing |date=October 1, 2018 |work=Axios |access-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-date=October 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002102326/https://www.axios.com/brett-kavanaugh-rachel-mitchell-prosecutor-memo-2c3233cc-1d42-416b-af04-02700aa9a711.html |url-status=live }} Mitchell asserted that Ford's case was "even weaker than" the standard "he said, she said" case, because other witnesses identified by Ford "either refuted her allegations, or failed to corroborate them".{{Cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mitchell-says-she-would-not-bring-criminal-charges-against-kavanaugh-in-memo |title=Mitchell says she would not bring criminal charges against Kavanaugh in memo |first=Edmund |last=DeMarche |date=October 1, 2018 |publisher=Fox News |access-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003043235/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mitchell-says-she-would-not-bring-criminal-charges-against-kavanaugh-in-memo |url-status=live }}

In response to Mitchell's memo detailing her conclusions, several former prosecutors and legal analysts published rebuttals, arguing that Mitchell erred in questioning Ford without there having been an impartial and full investigation.{{cite news |last1=Burke |first1=Dennis |last2=Evans |first2=Brooker T. |last3=Herrera |first3=Roy |last4=Kebler |first4=Melanie |last5=Kokanovich |first5=Mark S. |title=Why didn't Rachel Mitchell know her role in Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation was a sham? |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2018/10/09/rachel-mitchell-prosecutor-report-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation/1570877002/ |work=The Arizona Republic |date=9 October 2018 }} Others noted that Mitchell's role was "akin to [that of] a defense attorney", and therefore she should not have submitted a prosecution report.{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Deanna |title=Analysis {{!}} Rachel Mitchell says her Kavanaugh report is what a 'reasonable prosecutor' would say. It's not. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/01/rachel-mitchell-says-her-kavanaugh-report-is-what-reasonable-prosecutor-would-say-its-not/ |access-date=January 28, 2019 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=October 1, 2018 |archive-date=April 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421195200/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/01/rachel-mitchell-says-her-kavanaugh-report-is-what-reasonable-prosecutor-would-say-its-not/ |url-status=live }} Two MSNBC legal analysts characterized Mitchell's assertions that Ford had "no memory of key details" and that others had not corroborated her account as flawed arguments, even going so far as to describe Mitchell's conclusions as "reek[ing] of desperation" and "misleading at best and disingenuous at worst".{{cite news |last1=Rocah |first1=Mimi |last2=Goldman |first2=Daniel S. |title=Opinion {{!}} Kavanaugh prosecutor's supposedly expert analysis of Dr. Ford was deeply misleading |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/kavanaugh-hearing-prosecutor-rachel-mitchell-s-critique-dr-ford-incomplete-ncna915896 |access-date=January 28, 2019 |work=NBC News |publisher=NBC Universal |date=October 2, 2018 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215085033/https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/kavanaugh-hearing-prosecutor-rachel-mitchell-s-critique-dr-ford-incomplete-ncna915896 |url-status=live }}

On September 28, following requests from U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and from the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Trump ordered a supplemental FBI background investigation into Kavanaugh, giving them one week to investigate the sexual assault allegations.{{cite news |access-date=September 28, 2018 |date=September 28, 2018 |publisher=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/652486413/judiciary-committee-set-to-vote-on-kavanaugh-friday-with-eyes-on-undecided-jeff |title=Trump Orders Limited FBI Investigation To Supplement Kavanaugh Background Check |first1=Scott |last1=Detrow |first2=Tim |last2=Mak |first3=Jessica |last3=Taylor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928134925/https://www.npr.org/2018/09/28/652486413/judiciary-committee-set-to-vote-on-kavanaugh-friday-with-eyes-on-undecided-jeff |archive-date=September 28, 2018 |url-status=live }} On October 4, the FBI submitted the confidential report to the Senate; Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said there was nothing new in the report and no corroboration of the allegations. Senate Republicans were generally approving of how the investigation was conducted; Senate Democrats criticized the investigation as "limited" and "incomplete."{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409864-grassley-no-corroboration-of-kavanaugh-accusers-allegations-in-fbi-report |title=Grassley: No corroboration of Kavanaugh accusers' allegations in FBI report |last=Bolton |first=Alexander |date=October 4, 2018 |newspaper=The Hill |access-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-date=November 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122011024/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409864-grassley-no-corroboration-of-kavanaugh-accusers-allegations-in-fbi-report |url-status=live }} The FBI interviewed 10 additional witnesses during the investigation, including Deborah Ramirez, another woman who had accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault; they did not interview Kavanaugh or Ford.{{Cite news |last1=Caldwell |first1=Leigh Ann |last2=Przybyla |first2=Heidi |date=October 3, 2018 |title=FBI has not contacted dozens of potential sources in Kavanaugh investigation |work=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/dozens-potential-sources-information-have-not-been-contacted-fbi-kavanaugh-n916146 |url-status=live |access-date=October 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007202005/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/dozens-potential-sources-information-have-not-been-contacted-fbi-kavanaugh-n916146 |archive-date=October 7, 2018}}

On October 5, Ford's attorneys said she had no regrets about coming forward, and did not want Kavanaugh impeached if Democrats took control of Congress.{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/politics/christine-blasey-ford-lawyers-brett-kavanaugh/index.html |title=Attorneys: Christine Blasey Ford doesn't want Kavanaugh impeached, has no regrets |last=Tatum |first=Sophie |date=October 5, 2018 |publisher=CNN |access-date=October 8, 2018 |archive-date=October 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007215505/https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/politics/christine-blasey-ford-lawyers-brett-kavanaugh/index.html |url-status=live }} The Senate confirmed Kavanaugh's nomination by a vote of 50–48 on October 6, 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/06/politics/kavanaugh-final-confirmation-vote/index.html|title=Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to Supreme Court|last1=Foran|first1=Clare|first2=Stephen|last2=Collinson|work=CNN|access-date=October 6, 2018|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106191954/https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/06/politics/kavanaugh-final-confirmation-vote/index.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html |title=Kavanaugh Is Sworn In After Close Confirmation Vote in Senate |first=Sheryl Gay |last=Stolberg |date=October 6, 2018 |work=The New York Times |access-date=October 7, 2018 |archive-date=September 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200913140833/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html |url-status=live }}

By the time it was closed to further donations, the GoFundMe account set up on Ford's behalf had raised $647,610. As of November 21, 2018, Ford had used some of the money to cover security costs to protect herself and her family, but said that she would donate the remainder to organizations that support trauma survivors.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/christine-blasey-ford-used-gofundme-money-to-pay-for-security-housing|title=Christine Blasey Ford explains use of GoFundMe money in rare public statement|last=Schallhorn|first=Kaitlyn|date=November 27, 2018|publisher=Fox News |access-date=December 17, 2018|archive-date=November 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128170739/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/christine-blasey-ford-used-gofundme-money-to-pay-for-security-housing|url-status=live}}

Ford received a number of threats{{snd}}including death threats{{snd}}for coming forward with her allegations against Kavanaugh.{{Cite web |last=Collins |first=Kaitlan |date=2018-09-20 |title=Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford receiving death threats {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/20/politics/kavanaugh-ford-death-threats/index.html |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=CNN |language=en}} During her testimony, Ford stated, "I have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable. People have posted my personal information on the internet. This has resulted in additional emails, calls, and threats. My family and I were forced to move out of our home."{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2018/11/8/18076154/christine-blasey-ford-threats-kavanaugh-gofundme|title=Christine Blasey Ford has a security detail because she still receives threats|last=North|first=Anna|date=November 8, 2018|website=Vox|access-date=December 17, 2018|archive-date=January 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113204408/https://www.vox.com/2018/11/8/18076154/christine-blasey-ford-threats-kavanaugh-gofundme|url-status=live}} {{As of|2018|11}}, Ford stated that she was still being harassed and threatened and had to move four times as well as hire private security;{{cite web|url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/christine-blasey-ford-threats-gofundme.html|title=Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out About the Threats She's Faced|last=Arnold|first=Amanda|date=November 26, 2018|website=The Cut |access-date=December 17, 2018|archive-date=November 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128130612/https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/christine-blasey-ford-threats-gofundme.html|url-status=live}} furthermore, she had not been able to resume her teaching at Palo Alto University.{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665407589/kavanaugh-accuser-christine-blasey-ford-continues-receiving-threats-lawyers-say |publisher=NPR |title=Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Continues Receiving Threats, Lawyers Say |last=Mak |first=Tim |date=November 8, 2018 |access-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128204426/https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665407589/kavanaugh-accuser-christine-blasey-ford-continues-receiving-threats-lawyers-say |url-status=live }}

In their 2019 book The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, authors Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly interviewed Leland Keyser, a close friend of Ford's from high school, who, according to Ford, was at the party where the alleged assault took place (although not in the same room). Keyser initially stated through her attorney that while she did not recall the evening in question, she believed Ford, but in a later interview she stated that she no longer does. The interview revealed that Keyser, who is a Democrat, had felt pressured earlier to corroborate Ford's account. According to Keyser, Ford and other friends threatened to spread stories of Keyser's "addictive tendencies" and other personal issues if Keyser did not change her account to corroborate Ford.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/17/key-witness-brett-kavanaugh-saga-comes-down-his-side/|title=A key witness in the Brett Kavanaugh saga comes down on his side|last=Blake|first=Aaron|date=September 17, 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=September 18, 2019}}{{cite book |last1=Pogrebin |first1=Robin |last2=Kelly |first2=Kate |title=The Education of Brett Kavanaugh |date=2019 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-593-08439-7 |page=236 |quote='I was told behind the scenes that certain things could be spread about me if I didn't comply,' Keyser later said. 'So that's where the Monica McLean put pressure on me came from'}}

The Wing, a co-working network and club for women, named a conference room in its San Francisco location after Ford.{{cite news|last=Gstalter|first=Morgan|date=October 9, 2018|title=Women's co-working network gives nod to Christine Blasey Ford at new space|newspaper=The Hill|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/410616-womens-workspace-dedicates-new-conference-room-to-christine|access-date=October 15, 2018|archive-date=November 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105234710/https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/410616-womens-workspace-dedicates-new-conference-room-to-christine|url-status=live}} In November 2018, a GoFundMe started by Georgetown Law professor Heidi Li Feldman raised $30,000 towards endowing a professorship or scholarship in Ford's name.{{Cite news|last=Swoyer|first=Alex|date=November 12, 2018|title=Kavanaugh accuser still collects pledge cash|newspaper=The Washington Times|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/12/kavanaugh-accuser-still-collects-pledge-cash/|access-date=November 15, 2018|archive-date=November 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128114958/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/12/kavanaugh-accuser-still-collects-pledge-cash/|url-status=live}} That same year, Time magazine included Ford on its shortlist for Person of the Year.{{cite web|last=Hallemann|first=Caroline|date=December 10, 2018|title=Meghan Markle Is in the Running for Time Magazine's Person of the Year|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a25456642/meghan-markle-shortlist-time-person-of-the-year-2018/|access-date=December 16, 2018|work=Town & Country|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217062714/https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a25456642/meghan-markle-shortlist-time-person-of-the-year-2018/|url-status=live}} On December 11, 2018, Ford presented the Sports Illustrated "Inspiration of the Year" award to Rachael Denhollander.{{cite news|last=Boren|first=Cindy|date=December 12, 2018|title=Christine Blasey Ford presents SI 'Inspiration of the Year' award to Rachael Denhollander|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/12/12/brett-kavanaughs-accuser-presents-sis-inspiration-year-award-larry-nassar-victim/|access-date=December 16, 2018|archive-date=December 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216005640/https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/12/12/brett-kavanaughs-accuser-presents-sis-inspiration-year-award-larry-nassar-victim/|url-status=live}} In 2019, she was named one of that year's 100 most influential people in Time 100, having been nominated by then-Senator Kamala Harris.{{cite magazine|last=Harris|first=Kamala|title=Christine Blasey Ford Is on the 2019 Time 100 List|url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567675/christine-blasey-ford/|access-date=April 17, 2019|magazine=Time |archive-date=January 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102170933/https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567675/christine-blasey-ford/|url-status=live}}

Additionally, Ford has been nominated for a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Distinguished Alumna Award for "speaking truth to power" when she went public with her sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh.{{Cite news|last=Kelly|first=Caroline|date=October 9, 2018|title=Christine Blasey Ford nominated for UNC Distinguished Alumna Award|work=CNN Politics|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/ford-unc-distinguished-alumna-award/index.html|access-date=December 17, 2018|archive-date=December 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218054547/https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/ford-unc-distinguished-alumna-award/index.html|url-status=live}}

Before coming forward with allegations against Kavanaugh, Ford lived in Palo Alto, California, with her husband Russell Ford—they wed in 2002—and their two sons. Since coming forward, she says that she has moved multiple times.

Ford is a registered Democrat who has made contributions to political organizations. In 2017, she participated in a local Women's March protesting President Trump and attended a March for Science in San Francisco to protest the Trump administration's cuts to research.

• {{Cite book |last1=Kraemer |first1=Helena Chmura |author1-link=Helena Chmura Kraemer |last2=Blasey |first2=Christine |year=2015 |title=How Many Subjects?: Statistical Power Analysis in Research |edition=2nd |location=Los Angeles |publisher=Sage Publications |isbn=978-1-4833-1955-1 |oclc=980879167}}
• {{Cite book |last=Blasey |first=Christine |year=2024 |title=One Way Back: A Memoir |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's |isbn=978-1-2502-8965-0 |oclc=1398463707}}

• {{cite book|editor1-first=Gerald|editor1-last=Koocher|editor2-first=John C.|author-link4=Alan Schatzberg|editor2-last=Norcross|editor1-link=Gerald Koocher|editor2-link=John C. Norcross|editor3-first=Beverly A.|editor3-last=Greene|title=Psychologists' Desk Reference: Third Edition|year=2013|isbn=978-0199845491|publisher=Oxford University Press|chapter=Adult Psychopharmacology|first1=Christine|last1=Blasey|first2=Joseph K.|last2=Belanoff|first3=Charles|last3=DeBattista|first4=Alan F.|last4=Shatzberg}}
• {{cite book |last1=Blasey |first1=Christine |last2=Saxena |first2=Kirti |editor1-last=Steiner |editor1-first=Hans |title=Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach |publisher=Jossey-Bass |isbn=978-0787961541 |edition=1st|date=March 29, 2004 }}

• {{cite journal |last1=Blasey |first1=Christine M. |last2=DeBattista |first2=Charles |last3=Roe |first3=Robert |last4=Block |first4=Thaddeus |last5=Belanoff |first5=Joseph K. |title=A multisite trial of mifepristone for the treatment of psychotic depression: A site-by-treatment interaction |journal=Contemporary Clinical Trials |date=July 2009 |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=284–288 |doi=10.1016/j.cct.2009.03.001 |pmid=19318138 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Blasey |first1=C. M. |last2=Block |first2=T. S. |last3=Belanoff |first3=J. K. |last4=Roe |first4=R. L. |date=2011 |title=Efficacy and Safety of Mifepristone for the Treatment of Psychotic Depression |journal=Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=436–440 |doi=10.1097/JCP.0b013e3182239191 |pmid=21694614|s2cid=24302102 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Blasey |first1=Christine |last2=McLain |first2=Carina |last3=Belanoff |first3=Joseph |title=Trough Plasma Concentrations of Mifepristone Correlate with Psychotic Symptom Reductions: A Review of Three Randomized Clinical Trials |journal=Current Psychiatry Reviews |year=2013 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=148–154 |doi=10.2174/1573400511309020009 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Kraemer |first1=Helena C. |last2=Blasey |first2=Christine M. |title=Centring in regression analyses: a strategy to prevent errors in statistical inference |journal=International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research |date=August 2004 |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=141–151 |doi=10.1002/mpr.170 |pmid=15297898 |pmc=6878533 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Malli |first1=Marina |title='My heart, how shall I keep silent?' The Personal as Political: Foucault's Parrhēsia in Euripides' Ion and the Testimony of Christine Blasey Ford |journal=Symploke |date=2021 |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=431–456 |id={{Project MUSE|837813}} {{ProQuest|2599944250}} |doi=10.1353/sym.2021.0022 |s2cid=244718878 }}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Manber|first1=Rachel|last2=Schnyer|first2=Rosa N.|last3=Allen|first3=John J.B.|last4=Rush|first4=A. John|last5=Blasey|first5=Christine M.|date=2004|title=Acupuncture: a promising treatment for depression during pregnancy|journal=Journal of Affective Disorders |volume=83|issue=1|pages=89–95|doi=10.1016/j.jad.2004.05.009|pmid=15546651}}

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