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Abedin writes about the incident in a section ofBoth/And: A Life in Many Worldsthat describes her work between 2001 and 2009, when Clinton represented New York in the Senate,according toThe Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book ahead of its Nov. 2 release.
Though Abedin shares no additional identifying info about the senator whom she says attacked her, details of the incident follow a passage about Abedin attendingDonald and Melania Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, weddingin January 2005.
Abedin writes that after joining “a few senators and their aides” at a dinner back in Washington, D.C., she “ended up walking out with one of the senators, and soon we stopped in front of his building and he invited me in for coffee,” according to the passage inThe Guardian. “Once inside, he told me to make myself comfortable on the couch.”
The senator took off his blazer, rolled up his sleeves and made coffee while he and Abedin continued to talk, she reportedly writes.
“Then, in an instant, it all changed. He plopped down to my right, put his left arm around my shoulder, and kissed me, pushing his tongue into my mouth, pressing me back on the sofa,” Abedin writes. “I was so utterly shocked, I pushed him away. All I wanted was for the last 10 seconds to be erased.”
Huma Abedin (left) and Sec. Hillary Clinton.Jonathan Ernst/Getty
“Then I said something only the twentysomething version of me would have come up with – ‘I am so sorry’ – and walked out, trying to appear as nonchalant as possible,” she writes.
Abedin avoided the senator for a few days but soon ran into him on Capitol Hill, she writes. When he asked if they were still friends, she nodded before Clinton came to her side “as if she knew I needed rescuing even though I’d told her nothing about that night.”
Though she and the unnamed senator remained friendly, Abedin writes, she “buried the incident” — erasing it “entirely” from her memory until 2018.
The cover of Huma Abedin’s memoir.Simon and Schuster
It wasChristine Blasey Ford’s testimonyduring the Senate confirmation hearings for Trump-nominated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that brought the memory back, Abedin writes.
Abedin writes that Ford “being accused of ‘conveniently’ remembering” a sexual assault from her distant past brought back memories of what happened to her on the unnamed senator’s couch.
In a preview ofBoth/And: A Life in Many Worldspublished inVoguethis month, Abedin described herheartbreak and angerover the eruption of ex-husband Anthony Weiner’s 2011 sexting scandal, its personal and political repercussions and how Clinton comforted her whenAbedin’s pregnancywas detailed in the press.
source: people.com
