“I hope he stays at CNN forever if he chooses,” she said. Ross said she did not want Cuomo to lose his job. I apologized to her then, and I meant it.” It happened 16 years ago in a public setting when she was a top executive at ABC. “As Shelley acknowledges, our interaction was not sexual in nature. Reached Thursday night by the Times, Cuomo issued a statement. ‘No you can’t,’ I said, pushing him off me at the chest while stepping back, revealing my husband, who had seen the entire episode at close range. “‘I can do this now that you’re no longer my boss,’ he said to me with a kind of cocky arrogance. “When Mr Cuomo entered the Upper West Side bar, he walked toward me and greeted me with a strong bear hug while lowering one hand to firmly grab and squeeze the cheek of my buttock. “I was at the party with my husband, who sat behind me on an ottoman sipping his Diet Coke as I spoke with work friends,” Ross said in the Times article. Cuomo joined CNN in 2013 and has become one of the network’s main stars. Ross, who was for a while Cuomo’s boss as an executive producer of his Primetime Live program at ABC, said the incident happened at a colleague’s leaving party. What matters is how your actions and words were perceived.”
Tell people what you’ll do to be better, be contrite, and finally accept that it doesn’t matter what you intended. In an emotional to-camera piece at the time, Cuomo said: “My advice to my brother was simple and consistent on what you did.
Cuomo later apologized in an email, also published by the newspaper, in which he says: “now that I think of it … I am ashamed,” although he insists his action was intended as “a hearty greeting” with no malicious or sexual intent.Ĭuomo, 51, advised his brother Andrew Cuomo through the sexual harassment scandal involving multiple women that ultimately led to the politician’s downfall last month.
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