Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, has come forward for the first time with the story of her own sexual assault by a prominent executive in the music industry more than 40 years ago, in order to support Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when she was in high school 30 years ago.
In an article in
The Washington Post, Davis writes
“It doesn’t surprise me one bit that for more than 30 years, Christine Blasey Ford didn’t talk about the assault she remembers, the one she accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of committing" as she herself told no one of being raped by the music executive in his office in 1975.
She says that she went to the executive's office after she wrote a song for The Eagles album "One of These Nights" (she was dating the Eagles' guitarist at the time) and was working on a songwriting career. She doesn't name the man in the article.
“It’s important to understand how memory works in a traumatic event. Ford has been criticized for the things she doesn’t remember, like the address where she says the assault happened, or the time of year, or whose house it was. But her memory of the attack itself is vivid and detailed. His hand over her mouth, another young man piling on, her fear that maybe she’d die there, unable to breathe. That’s what happens: Your memory snaps photos of the details that will haunt you forever, that will change your life and live under your skin. It blacks out other parts of the story that really don’t matter much.”
Davis was often estranged from her parents over her pro-choice and anti-nuclear activism, and she accused Nancy of physical abuse in her 1992 autobiography. But she reconciled with her mother before Nancy's 2016 death.
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