Christine Blasey Ford didn't know her Senate testimony against Kavanaugh would be televised until last minute

Christine Blasey Ford said Tuesday that she didn't realize until she was walking into the Senate chamber in September 2018 that her testimony about her alleged assault at the hands of now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would be nationally televised.

Ford joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Tuesday to discuss her new memoir, "One Way Back."

"I never thought I'd have that day on television. I thought I would share the information with the senators and they would do with it what they felt was necessary. So I thought I was being helpful, I was trying to collaborate with them and it was a three-month process of working up to that day on TV," Ford said.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin noted Ford wrote she felt she would be able to remain anonymous.

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"You said you were idealistic about the process and you thought you’d be able to stay anonymous. The story would blow over in 24 hours and that Trump may even nominate someone else to avoid the embarrassment, which he didn’t and you didn’t find out until you were walking into the hearing that it would be televised. What was that moment like for you?" Griffin asked.

Ford said she was "very idealistic," having grown up in Washington, D.C., and said it served her well because otherwise she would have never gone to see her district's member of Congress.

"I was very adamant that I didn't want a camera, I'm a little afraid of the camera. And they said, 'Well, we need to have one camera so that all the senators will be able to see you,' and they were telling me that when I was walking down the hallway and it was too late to worry about it at that point, so they said it would be on C-SPAN, and I