Former NCS anchor Brooke Baldwin is able to open up about her expertise as a sexual assault survivor.
“This is a big one, friends,” the journalist, 46, wrote on the Monday, May 3, version of her “Unraveling With Brooke Baldwin” Substack. “I’m about to tell you a story I’ve held in silence for 25 years.”
The alleged incident occurred when Baldwin was 21 years previous and visiting Los Angeles. She claimed that she was sexually assaulted by two older and unidentified males she believed slipped one thing into her drink at a resort bar.
“I woke up on the cold, hard bathroom tile floor of my Los Angeles hotel room with a man I did not know,” she shared. “For years, I did not have language for what I believed may have been done to me.”
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Baldwin struggled to recall what occurred that earlier night time, noting that since then her recollections have come “only in flashes.”
“There was a deep, kind of grogginess the next day that I did not understand,” she recalled.
Baldwin checked her physique on the time and felt that “penetration hadn’t happened.”
“At least that was the story I told myself,” she wrote.
Baldwin defined that she determined to return ahead all these years later after interviewing fellow sexual assault survivors Jennifer Wilenta and Zoe Watts. She shared that her expertise was “not a comparison to either of their experiences.”
“There is no equivalence. None. Their stories are their own. Their bravery, however, stirred something in me. It opened a door I had slammed shut,” she mentioned. “While preparing to interview them — reading, reporting, immersing myself as seriously as I would have for any interview on my NCS show — something happened. My body remembered.”
Baldwin beforehand hinted that she was a sufferer of a sexual assault when present Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford in 2018 throughout Kavanaugh’s contentious affirmation hearings. (Kavanaugh has vehemently denied Ford’s allegations.)
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“We all have our stories — the spiked drink, waking up on a cold hotel bathroom floor, the uncertainty, the shame,” Baldwin mentioned throughout a 2018 monologue whereas masking Ford’s allegations and Kavanaugh’s denial on NCS. (The National Sexual Assault Hotline obtained a 147 percent increase in calls throughout the affirmation hearings.)
Baldwin shared on Monday that whereas she wasn’t prepared to speak about her expertise eight years in the past, she felt empowered sufficient to say one thing now.
“I remember going home that night after our wall-to-wall coverage, buzzing, sitting in front of my computer. This monologue just poured out of me,” she mirrored. “The very next day at work, with my heart pounding, I closed my show with [the monologue]. “But there was something I did not say that day. I wasn’t ready then. I am now.”
Baldwin was an anchor for NCS from 2008 to 2021.
If you or somebody has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).