Christine Blasey Ford describes encountering alleged attacker Mark Judge at a supermarket weeks after the assault: 'He looked ill'

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Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC.

• Christine Blasey Ford described Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge, who she says was also in the room when Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her, as "looking ill" upon seeing her several weeks later.
• Ford has accused Judge of laughing and playing loud music as Kavanaugh pinned her down on a bed and tried to rape her. Judge has fully denied being a part of the alleged incident. 
• Follow live updates from Ford's testimony here. 

While testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh allegedly assaulting her in the 1980s, Christine Blasey Ford described Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge, who she says was also in the room during the attack, as "looking ill" upon seeing her several weeks later.

Responding to questioning from Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Ford recounted seeing Judge "six to eight weeks" after the assault at the Potomac Village Safeway grocery store in suburban Maryland, where he worked at the time.

"Mark Judge looked like he was working there, arranging the shopping carts," she said. "I said hello to him and his face was white and very uncomfortable saying hello back. We had previously been friendly at the times we saw each other over the previous two years."

She continued: "I wouldn't characterize him as not friendly, he was just nervous and not really wanting to speak with me. He looked a little bit ill." 

Ford has alleged in her prepared opening statement that Judge was present in the room where she accused a 17-year-old Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a gathering in suburban Maryland in the summer of 1982. 

Earlier in her hearing, she said Judge aided and actively participated in the assault. She accuses Kavanaugh of pushing her onto a bed and attempting to rape her, playing loud music and placing his hand over her mouth to keep her from crying out.

"They locked the door and played loud music precluding any successful attempt to yell for help," Ford described during her testimony. "They both laughed as Kavanaugh tried to disrobe me in their highly inebriated state," she said, adding that she even made eye contact with Judge at several points during the assault, hoping he would help her. 

Judge thoroughly disputed that the alleged incident ever happened in a submitted statement from his attorney to the committee, and has not responded to Democratic calls for him to testify under oath. 

Watch the full exchange here:

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• Watch live updates of the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing here
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• 'I will not be intimidated into withdrawing': Kavanaugh defiant in prepared remarks for Senate hearing
• Ford says the strongest memory she has of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault was 'the uproarious laughter'
• Ford says she decided to come forward after reporters were sitting outside of her house and showing up in her classroom where she taught
• Here is the polygraph test Ford took following her sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh
• Meet Mark Judge, Kavanaugh's high-school friend and the other man who's becoming central to the allegations
• Here are all the allegations against Kavanaugh
• How the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing compares to the 1991 Anita Hill hearing
• Meet Rachel Mitchell, the woman questioning Ford about her Kavanaugh allegations
• Meet Brett Kavanaugh, 'the Forrest Gump of Republican politics'