Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh claimed he is innocent of sexual assault charges leveled against him by Christine Blasey Ford, in written testimony submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“I categorically and unequivocally deny the allegation against me by Dr. Ford. I never had any sexual or physical encounter of any kind with Dr. Ford,” Kavanaugh said in written testimony released by the committee Wednesday. “I am not questioning that Dr. Ford may have been sexually assaulted by some person in some place at some time. But I have never done that to her or anyone. I am innocent of this charge.”

Both Ford and Kavanaugh, nominated to the Supreme Court in July, are scheduled to face 21 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee separately on Thursday. Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982, an allegation that has made Kavanaugh’s confirmation uncertain.

Kavanaugh has categorically denied Ford’s allegation and did so again in his prepared testimony to the committee.

“I never did anything remotely resembling what Dr. Ford describes,” he wrote.

Kavanaugh conceded in his statement that while he devoted most of his time in high school to academics, sports, church and service, he was “not perfect in those days, just as I am not perfect today.”

“I drank beer with my friends, usually on weekends. Sometimes I had too many. In retrospect, I said and did things in high school that make me cringe now. But that’s not why we are here today. What I’ve been accused of is far more serious than juvenile misbehavior,” he wrote.

Kavanaugh also dismissed other allegations of sexual misconduct lodged against him, calling them “false and uncorroborated.”

This week, a second woman, Deborah Ramirez, accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her during a drunken party at Yale University that occurred during the 1983-1984 school year. And on Wednesday, lawyer Michael Avenatti revealed a third woman, Julie Swetnick, said she saw Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, attend multiple house parties during which they drank “excessively” and engaged in “highly inappropriate conduct.”

That conduct, she wrote in a sworn affidavit, included “being overly aggressive with girls and not taking ‘no’ for an answer.”

She also accused Kavanaugh of being present when she was gang raped around 1982.

“There has been a frenzy to come up with something — anything, no matter how far-fetched or odious — that will block a vote on my nomination,” Kavanaugh wrote in his testimony. “These are last-minute public smears, pure and simple. They debase our public discourse. And the consequences extend beyond any one nomination.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination for Friday morning. But Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the panel’s chairman, said the committee will vote only when it’s ready to do so.