"I am here today not because I want to be," Blasey Ford said in her opening statement during which her voice quavered at times and she appeared occasionally to be on the verge of tears. "Brett and Mark came into the bedroom and locked the door behind them," she said. "I believed he was going to rape me," Blasey Ford said. "When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling," she said. "It was hard for me to breathe, and I thought that Brett was accidentally going to kill me," she said.

Source: Egypt Today September 27, 2018 17:48 UTC