Herman Cain reveals Ginger White to accuse him of a 13-year affair
After being criticized for his slow response to sexual harassment allegations, presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday refuted a story that has yet to come out.
“It was pretty simple,” Ginger White told an Atlanta TV station in an interview set to air at 6 p.m. Monday evening. “It wasn’t complicated. I was aware that he was married. And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship.”
The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that a story will break Monday night in which a woman is “going to accuse me of an affair for an extended period of time.” An Atlanta television station, Cain explained, asked him for comment.
Fox 5 Atlanta is also hyping the story, saying in a promotional video that the woman in question accused Cain of a 13-year-affair.
Cain told CNN, “It is someone that I know, who is an acquaintance who I thought was a friend.”
The GOP presidential candidate later elaborated on their relationship, saying she was a “friend, because not having a job, et cetera and this sort of thing.” He said it was “premature” to talk about how long he had known the woman, and that his wife had not met her.
Cain didn’t offer other information, explaining, “I don’t want to specify because I don’t know what’s in the story … We will address these when they come out, but at this point, I just wanted to give you a heads up. I don’t have anything to hide and we will address the details as we know them.”
Once the story breaks, Cain said, his attorney, L. Lin Wood, would respond.
Cain said he had spoken to his wife about the most recent accusation. “Her reaction was very similar to mine — ‘Here we go again.’ … As long as my wife believes that I should stay in this race, I’m staying in this race.”
He concluded that he would have a “nice steak dinner” tonight, because he’s “done nothing wrong.”