Charlotte Bennett, who has indicted the New York governor. Andrew Cuomo
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“I thought he was trying to sleep with me,” Bennett said during an exclusive interview on CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.
Bennett, Cuomo’s former aide, said Cuomo was asking her questions that made her feel “deeply uncomfortable.”
“The governor was trying to sleep with me,” he recalled thinking. “And I’m deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out of this room as soon as possible.”
When asked what made her feel like Cuomo wanted to have sex with her, Bennett replied, “without saying it explicitly, it made me realize that I was old enough for him and that I was alone.”
Bennett, 25, is one of three women accusing Cuomo of sexual harassment. She said The New York Times that Cuomo, 63, asked her several personal questions when they were alone and suggested she open up about having relationships with women in their twenties.
Cuomo apologized Wednesday to make people feel “uncomfortable”.
“Now I understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was involuntary and I really and truly apologize,” Cuomo said.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is investigating the allegations against Cuomo.