Connie Chung Reveals Doctor Who Sexually Abused Her Also Delivered Her: ‘Reprehensible’

Connie Chung examines key details about the man who allegedly sexually abused her as a young woman.

The veteran television journalist wrote in her new memoir, six years after she first went public with the incident, that a “trusted family doctor” touched her inappropriately during her first gynecological exam. She noticed that this doctor was also present at her birth.

“What made this monster even more reprehensible was the fact that he was the very doctor who delivered me on August 20, 1946,” Chung wrote in “Connie: A Memoir,” according to an excerpt provided to Us Weekly became.

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The 78-year-old media personality wrote that she was at university at the time of the incident and had made an appointment with a gynecologist for contraception. She went into detail about how the now-deceased doctor allegedly massaged her genitals and accompanied her through the attack. Chung wrote that “I had an orgasm for the first time in my life” and that after the interaction, her doctor leaned in and kissed her on the lips.

“I didn’t say a word. I couldn’t even look at him,” she wrote.

Chung’s account of the abuse in her memoir echoes lines from a 2018 letter she wrote to Christine Blasey Ford, in which Blasey Ford alleged sexual assault against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. In the letter, published in the Washington Post in October 2018, Chung said the abuse occurred in the 1960s.

“I didn’t report [the doctor] to authorities. “It never occurred to me to protect other women,” she wrote in the letter. “Please understand that I was actually embarrassed by my sexual naivety.” I was in my twenties and knew nothing about sex. I just wanted to put the incident in my head and protect my family.

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She concluded the letter by saying, “Bravo, Christine, for telling the truth.”

Chung is a former network news anchor whose extensive career includes chapters at ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, as well as working with heavyweights such as Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters. Chung last appeared on television in 2006, but has recently returned to the spotlight to promote her new book.

“Connie: A Memoir,” which also details the broadcast media personality’s experiences as an Asian American woman and her marriage to Maury Povich, was released Tuesday.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.