I think it’s pretty clear how the Cuomo brothers feel about women. It’s not like they try to hide it but to grope a woman in front of her husband and a party full of guests—That’s bold. That’s exactly what Shelley Ross, Chis Cuomo’s ex-boss says happened to her at a farewell party for a co-worker.
Ross says her husband witnessed the creepy CNN anchor grope her buttocks.
“What goes through your head as this guy has the nerve to squeeze your ass?” talk show host, Megyn Kelly, asked.
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.”
“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.
Cuomo must have caught wind that Ross was talking because he reportedly sent her an apology email. In the email that was included in her op-ed Cuomo 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.”
The attack reportedly happened in 2005 and Ross claims she confided in a few coworkers who confirmed that this was normal behavior for Cuomo.
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It’s just disgusting how the Cuomo brothers treat women. It’s more disgusting how widely accepted their foul behavior seems to be—Even with the ultra-feminists. Why? Just because he supports a certain party? I’m willing to bet that if he worked for a conservative news outlet, they would have canned him by now.
H/T BrietBart
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.
