Reed also announced that he would not attempt a post in 2022 after the end of his current term in Congress.
“I hear her voice and I will not let her go. In reflection, my personal description of this event is irrelevant,” he said. “Simply put, my behavior caused him pain, showed his disrespect and was unprofessional. I was wrong, I’m sorry and I take full responsibility.”
Davis told the Post in a story published on Friday that at a Minneapolis pub in 2017, Reed was drunk when he put his hand on her back and then his hand off her shirt, unbuttoned her bra and then moved her hand to your thigh, moving it upwards.
“A drunk congressman is rubbing my back,” she told the Post that she had texted a friend and co-worker that night in 2017.
She told the Post that she asked the person next to her on the right for help. She said that he pulled Reed away from the table and out of the restaurant.
CNN did not independently confirm Davis’ claim made in the Post article and was unable to contact her for comment. Reed initially denied any allegations of sexual misconduct in a statement to CNN on Friday after the Post’s story was published.
“This account of my actions is not accurate,” Reed said in a statement to CNN about the charges on Friday. When asked personally at Capitol Hill about the charges that day, Reed told CNN: “We issued a statement.”
Reed said in his Sunday statement that the 2017 incident happened during a period when he was struggling with alcoholism.
“This occurred at a time in my life when I was struggling. Upon entering treatment in 2017, I recognized that I am helpless in relation to alcohol. Now I am approaching four years of this personal journey of recovery throughout my life,” he said. Reed in a statement. “This is by no means an excuse for anything I did. Consistent with my recovery, I publicly appropriate my previous actions, I offer this and humbly apologize again to Ms. Davis, my wife and children, loved ones and for all of you. “
Reed said he would not be running for office in 2022, which he said he agreed with when he was elected to the House for only six terms.