The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer: The Story Emerged After We Approached Ramirez

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MAYER: “So the story broke overnight, but it dates back 35 years. People remember at the time who were — a classmate at Yale remembers this, he heard it that night, I think, right after it or the next day. And she didn’t come forward with it. What happened was, the classmates at Yale were talking to each other about it. They were e-mailing about it, we have seen the e-mails back in July, before Christine Blasey Ford came forward. And eventually, the word of it spread. It spread to the Senate, it spread to the media. We at 'The New Yorker,' Ronan Farrow, my partner and co-author on the story, reached out to her, and she decided after giving it really careful consideration for six days, she decided to talk to him about it. That’s how this story came out. It looks like it's overnight. It actually goes back 35 years really.”