Ford had wrestled with the choice to make her identity known, weighing the potential negative impact it could have on her, but ultimately spoke to The Washington Post, alleging that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982 when she was 15 and he was 17.
福特选择将她的身份公之于众，权衡了可能会给她个人带来的影响，但她最终告诉《华盛顿邮报》，指称卡瓦诺于1982年夏天对她实施性侵犯，福特时年15岁，卡瓦诺17岁。