Reagan's Daughter Patti Davis Reveals She Didn't Disclose Sex Assault For Decades

Source: Huffington Post

09/21/2018 08:09 pm ET

“Your memory snaps photos of the details that will haunt you forever. It blacks out other parts that really don’t matter much,” she writes in support of Christine Blasey Ford.
By Mary Papenfuss

Ronald Reagan’s daughter was raped 40 years ago. But she didn’t speak of it for several years, Patti Davis revealed in a powerful Washington Post op-ed Friday.

“I never told anyone for decades — not a friend, not a boyfriend, not a therapist, not my husband when I got married years later,” noted Davis, an author. Nor did she remember some important details of the attack.

Both situations are common for survivors of assault, according to experts.

Davis revealed her experience in support of Christine Blasey Ford, the California psychology professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were teens.

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