Charlotte Bennett, representing the New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Andrew CuomoCuomo Advisers Changed COVID-19 Nursing Home Report: WSJ Cuomo Prosecutor Charlotte Bennett Says Governor Asked About Past Sexual Assault Cuomo Prosecutor Says She Thought He Proposed Her MORE (D) of sexual harassment, says she felt like Cuomo was proposing sex to her.
“I thought he wanted to sleep with me,” Bennett said during an exclusive CBS Evening News interview with Norah O’Donnell.
Bennett, a former assistant to Cuomo, said that Cuomo asked her questions that made her feel “ very uncomfortable. ”
“The governor is trying to sleep with me,” she recalled thinking. “And I feel very 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, he suggested that I was old enough for him and that he was lonely.”
Bennett, 25, is one of three women accused 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 open to relationships with women in their twenties.
Cuomo apologized Wednesday to make people feel ‘uncomfortable’.
“I now understand that I was acting in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional and I offer my sincere and deep apologies for it,” said Cuomo.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is investigating the charges against Cuomo.