The woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape when they were both teenagers testified that her friend provided a statement denying that she remembered the party in question because of unspecified health problems.
Christine Blasey Ford claims that other than Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, her alleged attackers, Patrick "P.J." Smyth and her close friend Leland Ingham attending the summer party. But all four individuals have provided sworn statements under the risk of perjury to Congress indicating they don't remember the party.
"Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford," read a letter from the attorney for the now-married Leland Keyser.
At the close of Thursday's Senate Judiciary hearing into Ford's claim, Rachel Miller, an Arizona sex crimes prosecutor tapped by Republicans to lead their rounds of questioning, asked whether Keyser ever asked Ford why she left the party.
"She didn't know about the event. She was downstairs during the event and I did not share it with her," Ford responded.
Miller asked Ford about Keyser's statement denying knowledge of the party. "Do you have any particular motives to ascribe to Leland?" she asked.
Ford sighed. "Leland has significant health challenges and I'm happy that she's focusing on herself and getting the health treatment that she needs," she responded, "and she let me know that she needed her lawyer to take care of this for her and she texted me right afterward with an apology and good wishes and et cetera."
"I don't expect that P.J. and Leland would remember this evening," she continued. "It was a very unremarkable party. It was not one of their more notorious parties because nothing remarkable happened to them that evening. They were downstairs."