Connie Chung walks the red carpet at the 2023 Daytime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. The career journalist and news anchor arrived at the awards ceremony with her long time spouse Maury Povich.
Have YOU got a story? EmailConnie Chung candidly penned about being 'sexually molested' by her family doctor in her new book, Connie: A Memoir, which was officially released on Tuesday.
Read More Maury Povich, 84, and wife Connie Chung, 77, at Daytime Emmys While studying at university at the time, she made an appointment to see the family doctor - who has since passed away - in order to get 'protection from pregnancy.''Not understanding or knowing what he was doing, I stared at the ceiling,' she penned in the memoir.
In 2018, the journalist went public with the assault for the first time in a letter to Christine Blasey Ford which was published in the Washington Post. Chung shared what happened next and wrote, 'Then he leaned over, kissed me, a peck on my lips, and slipped behind the curtain to retreat to his office area. I did not say a word. I could not even look at him'; seen earlier this month in NYC
Chung, who married television personality Maury Povich in 1984, said she later told her husband about the incident but cannot recall exactly when she brought up that she had been abused.However, Connie said she believes her abuser died almost 30 years ago, in his 80s, which would suggest he was in his 60s when the incident occurred.
'I discovered that the original source of the word catharsis was a medical term, and it was expunging your body of unwanted waste. I realized that I was really expunging my body of that waste that I didn’t want to have anything to do with.' She reported on Watergate and has conducted interviews with stars and well-known individuals such as Marlon Brand and Bill Clinton.
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