Former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin she is ready to be open about her experience as a survivor of sexual abuse.
“This is huge, friends,” the journalist, 46, wrote on Monday, May 3, on his show “Unraveling With Brooke Baldwin” Substack. “I am about to tell you a story that I have kept silent for 25 years.”
The alleged incident happened when Baldwin was 21 years old and visiting Los Angeles. She revealed that she was molested by two unknown old men who believed they had slipped something into her drink at the hotel bar.
“I woke up on a cold, hard tile floor in my hotel room in Los Angeles with a man I didn’t know,” she said. “For many years, I was speechless about what I believed might have been done to me.”
Baldwin struggled to remember what had happened the night before, noting that since then his memories had come “in the blink of an eye.”
“There was a lot of anger the next day that I didn’t understand,” he recalled.
Baldwin checked his body at that point and heard that “entry has not yet taken place.”
“At least that was the story I told myself,” he wrote.
Baldwin explained that she decided to come forward all these years later after interviewing other survivors of sexual abuse Jennifer Wilenta again Zoe Watts. He shared that his experience “is not comparable to both of their experiences.”
“There is no equality. Nothing. Their stories. Their courage, however, sparked something in me. It opened a door I had closed,” he said. “As I prepared to interview them — reading, reporting, soaking in as I would have in any interview on my CNN show — something happened. My body remembered.”
Baldwin previously revealed that she was a victim of sexual assault during her current Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was accused of sexual harassment by Christine Blasey Ford in 2018 during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. (Kavanaugh has strongly denied Ford’s allegations.)
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“We all have our stories — the spiked drink, waking up in a cold hotel bathroom, the uncertainty, the embarrassment,” Baldwin said in a 2018 speech while addressing Ford’s allegations and Kavanaugh’s denials on CNN. (The National Sexual Assault Number reported a 147 percent increase in calls during confirmation hearings.)
Baldwin shared Monday that while she wasn’t ready to talk about her experience eight years ago, she felt empowered enough to speak up now.
“I remember going home that night after putting the wall together, crying, sitting in front of my computer. This article just came out of me,” he thought. “The next day at work, my heart was pounding, so I closed my schedule [the monologue]. “But there was something I didn’t say that day, I wasn’t ready at that time.
Baldwin was a CNN anchor from 2008 to 2021.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
