Chris Cuomo's Sexual Assult Accuser Gives Uncensored Account
Shelley Ross was CNN's anchor Chris Cuomo's ex-boss and current accuser. Ross said that the moment she stopped being his boss, Cuomo became a creep and groped her. Ross said that it all happened at a farewell party. She says Cuomo pulled her close and grabbed her buttocks.
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"What goes through your head as this guy has the nerve to squeeze your ass?" Megyn Kelly asked during an episode of her Podcast.
Ross responded, "It was belittling. It was clearly a power trip, to make me feel — you know, you're no longer my boss. I can do anything I want with you. ... Something in his head said he couldn't do that back when I was his boss, maybe he thought I would fire him or something, but it was meant to diminish [me]."
Ross continued, saying that the purported behavior felt "overpowering" and she "certainly didn't like it." She also added that Cuomo's "arrogant frat boy personality" was extremely off-putting.
Kelly agreed, arguing, "A normal man doesn't behave like this at the office."
Ross says this happened back in 2005 while she attended a farewell party for another colleague.
"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 recalled in a September op-ed published in the New York Times.
"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."
Ross said that Cuomo, acting with a "cocky arrogance," boasted that he could do that now that she was no longer his superior.
"No, you can't," she reportedly fired back.
Ross said that her husband witnessed the entire exchange and the two promptly left the party. She explained that she later confided in other colleagues what had happened and found that it was known behavior for the CNN anchor. She also says that the creep sent her an apology via email, later.
In an email included in the op-ed, Cuomo reportedly wrote, "Now that I think of it ... I am ashamed."
"Though my hearty greeting was a function of being glad to see you ... Christian Slater got arrested for a (kind of) similar act (though borne of an alleged negative intent, unlike my own) ... and as a husband, I can empathize with not liking to see my wife patted as such," Cuomo reportedly added. "So pass along my apology to your very good and noble husband ... and I apologize to you as well, for even putting you in that situation ... next time, I will remember my lesson, no matter how happy I am to see you."
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Clearly, little Cuomo has more of a conscience than his big brother who could never understand his behavior was disgusting as seen in his apology to Ross, but that in no way excuses the CNN anchor for his obvious power trip. It's becoming more apparent that humiliating and groping women just runs in their family.