Connie Chung is revisiting essential particulars concerning the man who allegedly sexually abused her as a younger girl.
The veteran TV journalist, six years after first going public concerning the incident, wrote in her new memoir {that a} “trusted household physician” had touched her inappropriately throughout her first gynecological examination. She famous that this physician additionally was current for her delivery.
“What made this monster much more reprehensible was that he was the very physician who had delivered me on August 20, 1946,” Chung wrote in “Connie: A Memoir,” in line with an excerpt shared with Us Weekly.
The 78-year-old media persona wrote that she was in school on the time of the incident and had booked an appointment with the gynecologist to acquire contraception. She went into particulars about how the physician, who has since died, allegedly massaged her genitals and coached her by way of the assault. Chung wrote that “for the primary time in my life, I had an orgasm,” and that her physician had leaned over and kissed her on the lips after the interplay.
“I didn’t say a phrase. I couldn’t even take a look at him,” she wrote.
Chung’s account of the abuse in her memoir echoes strains from a 2018 letter she penned to Christine Blasey Ford amid Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault in opposition to then-Supreme Courtroom nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. Within the letter, revealed within the Washington Put up in October 2018, Chung stated the abuse occurred through the Nineteen Sixties.
“I didn’t report [the doctor] to authorities. It by no means crossed my thoughts to guard different girls,” she wrote within the letter. “Please perceive, I used to be truly embarrassed about my sexual naivete. I used to be in my 20s and knew nothing about intercourse. All I needed to do was bury the incident in my thoughts and shield my household.”
She concluded the letter: “Bravo, Christine, for telling the reality.”
Chung is a former community information anchor whose expansive profession consists of chapters at ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN and collaborations with heavyweights together with Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters. Chung final appeared on TV in 2006 however has lately returned to the highlight to advertise her new ebook.
“Connie: A Memoir,” which additionally particulars the media persona’s experiences in broadcast tv as an Asian American girl and her marriage to Maury Povich, got here out Tuesday.