Chris Cuomo apologized to the husband of the woman he's accused of sexually harassing before her, a leaked email claims
Shelley Ross, a former executive producer at ABC and CBS who accused Chris Cuomo of sexually harassing her at a colleague's going away party in 2005, says the CNN host apologized to her husband before he apologized to her after the incident.
Ross, who was the executive producer of an ABC entertainment special and previously was Cuomo's executive producer at "Primetime Live," said in Friday's New York Times op-ed about the incident that Cuomo grabbed her buttocks during the party.
Ross shared a 2005 email from Cuomo as part of the op-ed, in which he said was "ashamed" of what he'd done, and apologized to her "very good and noble husband" before apologizing to her, "for even putting you in such a position."
He added that he would "remember the lesson, no matter how happy I am to see you…" according to a screenshot of the email shared by Ross.
"Was he ashamed of what he did, or was he embarrassed because my husband saw it?" Ross wrote in the Times op-ed. "Mr. Cuomo may say this is a sincere apology. I've always seen it as an attempt to provide himself with legal and moral coverage to evade accountability."
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