In September 2018, Christine Blasey Ford raised approximately $650,000 in donations after she accused then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
After Kavanaugh was confirmed by a narrow 50-48 vote, Ford opted to drop her accusations and her lawyer insisted there be no further criminal investigation.
Ford said she would donate all the money raised that she hadn’t spent on personal security. There is no report on who or where the money was sent.
But one thing is finally clear: On March 19, 2024 Ford will return to public life in search of new money.
Ford is peddling her new tell-all book, “One Way Back: A Memoir”.”
After the Kavanaugh scandal, Ford quickly faded into political obscurity and stopped making public appearances.
Ford said she did not want Kavanaugh impeached and within months went from Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential into a life of relative political obscurity.
Her lawyer later admitted that Ford’s public accusation was at least partially motivated by politics.
“When [Kavanaugh] takes a scalpel to Roe v. Wade, we will know who he is — we know his character and we know what motivates him,” Ford’s former lawyer, Debra Katz, told the Feminist Legal Theory Conference at the University of Baltimore in 2019. “And that is important. It is important that we know, and that was part of what motivated Christine.”
Ford’s quiet existence is expected to change with the upcoming release of her new memoir.
According to Amazon —
In One Way Back, Ford recounts the months she spent trying to get information into the right hands without exposing herself and her family to dangerous backlash. Drawing parallels to her life as a surfer, she explains the process of paddling out into unknown waters despite the risks and fears, knowing there is only one way back to shore. The book reveals riveting new details about the leadup to her testimony and its overwhelming aftermath and describes how she continues to navigate her way out of the storm.
But her return to public life has not gained a huge amount of attention so far.
Ford’s book currently ranks just 169th in the Women in History category, and 2,133rd in Memoirs. Overall, the tell-all is 61,604th in total sales among books on Amazon.
It releases in 19 days.
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