Connie Chung is revisiting essential particulars in regards to the man who allegedly sexually abused her when she was younger.
The veteran TV journalist, six years after going public with the incident, wrote in her new memoir {that a} “trusted household physician” had touched her inappropriately throughout her first gynecological go to. She famous that this physician was additionally current at her start.
“What made this monster much more reprehensible was that he was the identical physician who had delivered me on August 20, 1946,” Chung wrote in “Connie: A Memoir,” in line with a excerpt shared with Us Weekly.
The 78-year-old media character wrote that she was in faculty on the time of the incident and had booked an appointment along with her gynecologist to get contraception. She detailed how the physician, who has since died, allegedly massaged her genitals and guided her through the assault. Chung wrote that “for the primary time in my life, I had an orgasm” and that her physician leaned over and kissed her on the lips after the interplay.
“I did not say a phrase. I could not even take a look at him,” she wrote.
Chung’s account of the abuse in her memoir echoes the traces of a Letter from 2018 wrote to Christine Blasey Ford following Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegations in opposition to then-Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. In the letter, revealed within the Washington Post in October 2018, Chung alleged that the abuse occurred within the Sixties.
“I didn’t report (the physician) to the authorities. It by no means occurred to me to guard different girls,” she wrote within the letter. “Please perceive, I used to be really embarrassed by my sexual naivety. I used to be in my 20s and knew nothing about intercourse. All I wished to do was bury the incident in my thoughts and shield my household.”
He concluded the letter: “Well performed, Christine, for telling the reality.”
Chung is a former community information anchor whose wide-ranging profession consists of stints on ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and collaborations with heavyweights together with Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters. Chung final appeared on TV in 2006, however not too long ago returned to the highlight to advertise her new ebook.
“Connie: A Memory,” which additionally chronicles the media character’s experiences on tv as an Asian-American lady and her marriage to Maury Povich, was launched Tuesday.
