Patti Davis, an author and the daughter of former President Reagan, on Friday came out in defense of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who alleges that President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, sexually assaulted her.

Davis revealed in an op-ed for The Washington Post that her own experience with sexual assault has allowed her to understand why Ford did not immediately report an incident she says occurred more than 30 years ago.

"I never told anyone for decades — not a friend, not a boyfriend, not a therapist, not my husband when I got married years later," Davis wrote. "It doesn’t surprise me one bit that for more than 30 years, Christine Blasey Ford didn’t talk about the assault she remembers, the one she accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of committing."

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Davis also pushed back against criticism Ford has received for her lack of knowledge regarding specific details of the alleged assault, writing that it's "important to understand how memory works in a traumatic event."

Davis likened Ford's experience to her own, detailing an episode in which she said she was sexually assaulted 40 years ago by an unnamed man who she said was a prominent music executive.

"I don’t remember what the executive said about the songs," Davis wrote. "Nor do I recall what we talked about."

"What happened next, though, is indelible," she wrote. "He crossed the room. There was a dark-green carpet, but his footsteps seemed loud, hard. He was against me, on top of me — so quickly — with his hands under my skirt and his mouth on mine, that I froze. I lay there as he pushed himself inside me."

Davis added that she remembers feeling "alone, ashamed and disgusted with myself," following the incident.

"I don’t remember what month it was," she added, writing that she didn't tell anyone about the incident for decades. "I don’t remember whether his assistant was still there when I arrived. I don’t remember whether we said anything to each other when I left his office."

Davis, associating her experience with Ford's, defended Ford for not knowing details such as the address of the house in which she alleges the assault occurred.

"But her memory of the attack itself is vivid and detailed," she wrote.

Davis advocated for an FBI investigation into Ford's charges "so that some of the details she doesn’t remember can be established."

"Requesting an investigation into the incident isn’t a big ask. Unless they just want her to go away. Which is, by the way, one reason that women are scared to speak up," she concluded.

The essay comes just days after Ford came forward publicly to detail her allegations against Kavanaugh to The Washington Post.

Ford has accused Kavanaugh of groping "her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it" at a party while the two were in high school. Ford alleged that Kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming for help.

Kavanaugh has fiercely denied the accusations, but Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) scheduled another hearing to provide a chance for Kavanaugh and Ford to testify regarding the allegations.

Ford's lawyers have said that she could be willing to testify next Thursday, based on an agreement to certain terms. Senate Republicans have asked that Ford come before the committee on Wednesday and testify first.