Brooke Baldwin: Fired CNN anchor recalls shocking sexual assault 5 things to know

Brooke Baldwin says she was ‘drugged’ by older man: 5 things to know

1. BaldwinThe 46-year-old elaborated on the incident in a Substack post on Monday, revealing that it happened when she was 21 years old. “I woke up on the cold, hard bathroom tile floor of my Los Angeles hotel room next to a man I didn’t recognize,” she wrote. “For years, I didn’t have the words to express what I thought might have happened to me.”
2. Baldwin said she and her friends went to Los Angeles for spring break. According to her, she “[a]Alone in a very adult bar in Beverly Hills” when “two older men showed up[ed] Beside me” and offered to buy her a drink.
3. Baldwin said she has difficulty remembering the exact incident and that her recollections “only come in fleeting moments.” However, she remembered seeing a semi-naked black SUV on the bathroom floor of the famous Chateau Marmont hotel before regaining consciousness. “The next day I felt a deep, groggy feeling that I couldn’t understand,” she wrote.
4. Baldwin said she checked her body and was convinced “penetration” had not occurred. “At least that’s the story I tell myself,” she wrote.
5. She clarified that she wasn’t telling the story to gain sympathy or “drama or clicks,” but rather “in the hope that other women questioning their own experiences might feel less alone.”

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‘We all have a story,’ says Brooke Baldwin

In a post on Instagram, Baldwin shared a poignant clip from a 2018 CNN segment in which she spoke directly to the camera about sexual assault. The monologue came after allegations were made by psychology professor Christine Blasey Fordshe alleged that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager.

Brooke Baldwin’s marriage and firing from CNN

Baldwin was fired from CNN in 2021. She said at the time that her departure was a personal choice. However, Baldwin revealed in a 2024 op-ed for Vanity Fair that she “couldn’t tell the whole truth” about why she quit.