Charlotte Bennett, who accused the governor of New York Andrew Cuomo
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“I thought he was trying to sleep with me,” said Bennett during an exclusive interview on “CBS Evening News” with Norah O’Donnell.
Bennett, a former adviser to Cuomo, said that Cuomo asked questions that made her “deeply uncomfortable”.
“The governor is trying to sleep with me,” she remembers thinking. “And I am deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out of this room as soon as possible.”
When asked what made her feel that Cuomo wanted to have sex with her, Bennett replied, “without saying that explicitly, he implied that I was old enough for him and that he was lonely.”
Bennett, 25, is one of three women to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment. She said The New York Times that Cuomo, 63, asked her several personal questions when they were alone and suggested that he was opening up to relationships with women in their 20s.
Cuomo apologized on Wednesday for making people feel “uncomfortable”.
“Now I understand that I acted in a way that made people uncomfortable. It was not intentional and I really and deeply apologize for that,” said Cuomo.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is investigating the charges against Cuomo.