Christopher Winter, who said he lived in a suite with Kavanaugh their freshman year in Yale’s Lawrance Hall, remembered Kavanaugh running “in a very drinky crowd.” There's a reason he was top of his class.' Brett would drink, but he'd also be the guy who never missed a class. 'I never, ever saw him blacked out, never.

'When he went out Friday nights, I was usually with him,' Dudley said of Kavanaugh. James Roche, Kavanaugh’s freshman year roommate, released a statement Tuesday that said Kavanaugh was a “notably heavy drinker” who often became “incoherently” drunk and, at times, “aggressive and belligerent.”Ĭhris Dudley - a close friend of Kavanaugh's from Yale, and a former NBA player and Republican gubernatorial nominee in Oregon - strongly disputed that characterization to BuzzFeed News. “I would suggest that very few people in the ’80s in the circles we were in did not sometimes go” to the point of being blacked out. “He drank a lot - he wasn’t falling asleep reading a book,” the former friend told BuzzFeed News. She hadn’t seen him become belligerent, she said - instead, he could often be found slumped over, asleep, during and after parties. One college friend of Kavanaugh’s, who asked not to be named, said she had frequently been drunk with him at parties. Most of his closest friends, pursued by countless reporters across the country, had phones that were not accepting calls or voicemail boxes that were full. Kavanaugh, who will testify in a Senate hearing Thursday, has repeatedly denied any allegation of wrongdoing, calling the allegations against himself “smears, pure and simple” in a letter to Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley on Monday.īuzzFeed News reached out to dozens of Kavanaugh’s former Yale classmates, fraternity brothers, and society members, many of whom did not return requests for comment. Some of his Yale classmates, though, said their memories of Kavanaugh as a heavy and frequent drinker conflicted with the judge’s assertions. In the interview with Fox, Kavanaugh said he had “never” drunk alcohol to the point of blacking out - ruling out the possibility that he had forgotten about any incidents of misconduct. Kavanaugh turned Monday night to Fox News to defend himself against multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including an allegation from his time at Yale, where a classmate, Debbie Ramirez, said Kavanaugh had exposed himself to her during one alcohol-soaked night their freshman year. It’s an image that contrasts with the that one Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, has sometimes presented of himself. In his college years, Brett Kavanaugh was ingrained in a social world that centered around alcohol, according to classmates who knew him at Yale, joining a notorious fraternity on a campus where few took part in Greek life and an all-male secret society that had a reputation solely for members’ heavy drinking.

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