Former Vice President Biden says Christine Blasey Ford, the college professor who accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both in high school, “should not have to go through the things Anita Hill went through.”

In an interview with NBC’s “Today" on Friday, Biden said Anita Hill, the woman who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in the 1990s, was “vilified when she came forward by a lot of my colleagues.”

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"I wish I could have done more to prevent those questions and the way they asked them,” said Biden, who was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time Hill came forward and oversaw Thomas's confirmation hearings.

Biden faced criticism over his handling of the hearings at the time.

“I hope my colleagues learned from that,” he continued Friday.

Biden praised Ford in the interview for having the “enormous courage” to come forward with her story.

He also said she “should be treated with respect” when she testifies and that she “should be given the benefit of the doubt and not be, you know, abused again by the system.”

"She should not have to go through the things Anita Hill went through,” he said.

"My biggest regret was, I didn't know how I could shut you off because you were a senator and you were attacking Anita Hill's character," he said. "Under the Senate rules, I can't gavel you down and say you can't ask that question, although I tried."

Biden said Hill "got victimized again during the process.”

He also issued an apology to Hill during the interview when asked what he would say if she were tuning in.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t have stopped the kind of attacks that came to you,” Biden said.

"But I never attacked her. I supported her," he also said. "I believed her from the beginning and I voted against Clarence Thomas."

Ford went to The Washington Post on Sunday and claimed she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh while they were at a high school party in the 1980s.

Kavanaugh has since denied the allegations.

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 defended Kavanaugh on Friday and said the judge was a "fine man" who is "under assault" by Democrats trying to use sexual assault allegations to keep him off the Supreme Court.

Hill, who is now a professor at Brandeis University, has also weighed in on the accusation against Kavanaugh, saying it is still "incredibly difficult" for abuse survivors to come forward, and that the Judiciary Committee must allow "anyone with a complaint of this nature to be heard."

She is among those who have called for Monday's scheduled hearing on the claim to be delayed.

"Push the pause button on this hearing, get the information together, bring in the experts," Hill told ABC News on Wednesday. "Put together a hearing that is fair, that impartial, that is not biased by politics or by men and bring this information to the American public."