LOS ANGELES, CA — Famed Los Angeles broadcast journalist Connie Chung joined the ranks of women to support Christine Blasey Ford by sharing her own story of sexual assault 50 years ago at the hands of the family doctor who delivered her.
Chung, 72, shared the painful details of her assault in an open letter to Ford in the Washington Post. The letter ran after President Trump mocked Ford at a campaign rally for not remembering exact dates and the address of the assault she allegedly endured at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. It also ran the same day Republican senators Jeff Flake and Susan Collins signaled their support for Kavanaugh, increasing the likelihood he will be voted to the highest court in the land by week’s end.
“The exact date and year are fuzzy. But details of the event are vivid, forever seared in my memory,” Chung wrote. “I am writing to you because I know that exact dates, exact years are insignificant. We remember exactly what happened to us and who did it to us. We remember the truth forever….Christine, I, too, am terrified as I reveal this publicly. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. Can you? If you can’t, I understand. I am frightened, I am scared, I can’t even cry.”
Chung, who rose to stardom as a TV news anchor in Los Angeles from the mid 70s to early 80s, shared her story in fearless detail. She was in her 20s, a college student and a virgin, who went to her family doctor for birth control. What was supposed to be a gynecological exam turned into a sexual assault, one Chung didn’t tell anyone about for decades.
“I have kept my dirty little secret to myself. Silence for five decades. The molester was our trusted family doctor. What made this monster even more reprehensible was that he was the very doctor who delivered me on Aug. 20, 1946. I’m 72 now,” she wrote. “I did not report him to authorities. It never crossed my mind to protect other women. Please understand, I was actually embarrassed about my sexual naivete.”
Even to this day, Chung said she is still terrified to share her story but feels she must speak out to support Ford.
“Will my legacy as a television journalist for 30-plus years be relegated to a footnote? Will “She Too” be etched on my tombstone instead? I don’t want to tell the truth,” she wrote. “I must tell the truth.”
Photo: NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 26: Journalist Connie Chung attends the International Women’s Media Foundation’s 27th Annual Courage In Journalism awards ceremony on October 26, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for IWMF)
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