Reagan’s daughter reveals shock story of sex assault

Washington, Sept. 22: Patti Davis, the daughter of former US President Ronald Reagan, has revealed she was sexually assaulted four decades ago — but can’t remember every detail.

Davis, 65, wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post, where she disclosed her secret as she defended Christine Blasey Ford.

Ford, a Californiabased professor, recently accused Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were in high school together. She has alleged that Kavanaugh carried out a violent sexual assault against her when he was 17 and she was 15. She insists she is now ready

I lay there as he pushed himself inside me… He didn’t use a condom. I remember leaving afterward, driving home... I felt alone, ashamed and disgusted with myself. Why didn’t I get out of there? Why didn’t I push him off? — Patti Davis Christine Blasey Ford has accused Trump’s SC nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were in high school together Trump has rejected Ford’s claim that a drunk Brett tried to pin her down and remove her clothes in early 1980s

to testify under oath before a Senate Judiciary Committee.

In her op- ed, Davis wrote: “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. It’s important to understand how memory works in a traumatic event. Ford has been criticised 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.” In revealing her own story of being sexually assaulted, Davis wrote that her attacker was a “prominent music executive”, who she met 40 years ago. Their meeting was at the end of the workday, and Davis recalled how she was alone with him in his office.

She said she recalled him pulling out a vial of cocaine and chopping up lines on a small mirror, and she was “90 per cent” sure she refused his offer to do drugs. “What happened next, though, is indelible,” she wrote. She then recalled how the assault happened, but she confessed that she could not remember if his assistant was still in the building and what they said to each other as she left the room.