Connie Chung reveals she was sexually assaulted in letter to Christine Blasey Ford

Journalist Connie Chung revealed that she was sexually assaulted by her family doctor as a college student in an open letter to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in The Washington Post published Wednesday.

“Dear Christine Blasey Ford, I, too, was sexually assaulted — not 36 years ago but about 50 years ago. I have kept my dirty little secret to myself. Silence for five decades. The molester was our trusted family doctor,” Chung, 72, wrote at the beginning of the powerful letter.

Chung said she’s “100 percent” sure who sexually assaulted her and that the assault happened when she went to the doctor to ask for “birth-control pills, an IUD or a diaphragm.”

Chung described the “odd” feeling of spreading her legs and putting her heels in the “cold iron stirrups” before detailing the assault.

“While I stared at the ceiling, his right index finger massaged my clitoris. With his right middle finger inserted in my vagina, he moved both fingers rhythmically. He coached me verbally in a soft voice, ’Just breathe. ‘Ah-ah,’ ’ mimicking the sound of soft breathing. ‘You’re doing fine,’ he assured me,” Chung wrote. “Suddenly, to my shock, I had an orgasm for the first time in my life. My body jerked several times. Then he leaned over, kissed me, a peck on my lips, and slipped behind the curtain to his office area.”

Chung said she doesn’t “remember saying anything to him” afterward and that she “could not even look at him,” adding that she may have told one of her sisters about it, but didn’t tell her parents or report him to the police.

“It never crossed my mind to protect other women. Please understand, I was actually embarrassed about my sexual naivete. I was in my 20s and knew nothing about sex. All I wanted to do was bury the incident in my mind and protect my family,” she wrote.