Connie Chung says she was sexually assaulted by her family doctor

Connie Chung.
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In an op-ed for The Washington Post addressed to Christine Blasey Ford, journalist Connie Chung revealed that she was sexually assaulted by her trusted family doctor when she was in college.

Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teenagers. In the op-ed, Chung said what made the doctor "even more reprehensible was that he was the very doctor who delivered me on Aug. 20, 1946." She said the assault took place when she went to ask him about birth control options and had her first-ever gynecological exam. "The exact date and year are fuzzy," she said. "But details of the event are vivid — forever seared in my memory. Am I sure who did it? Oh yes, 100 percent."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.