Huma Abedin says she was sexually assaulted by a US senator around 2005 but was able to forget the incident until allegations against Brett Kavanaugh triggered her memory Huma Abedin unveils a shocking new claim in her forthcoming memoir that she was sexually assaulted by an unnamed US senator She said the incident happened sometime after Donald Trump's 2005 wedding to Melania, which she attended Abedin did not specify which party the senator came from She said the alleged assault came when the senator invited her up for coffee after a dinner between senators and aides By Morgan Phillips, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:08 BST, 26 October 2021 | Updated: 22:17 BST, 26 October 2021 Viewcomments Huma Abedin unveils a shocking new claim in her forthcoming memoir that she was sexually assaulted by an unnamed US senator. The longtime Hillary Clinton aide and estranged wife of former congressman and convicted sex offender Anthony Weiner wrote in her new book 'Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds,' out next week, that she was able to put the incident out of her mind until Christine Blasey Ford was testifying about her alleged assault by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. She did not name the senator or his political party. Abedin wrote about a Washington dinner, sometime after Donald Trump's wedding to Melania in 2005, before she was with Weiner. She wrote that she attended the dinner without Clinton, then-senator from New York, with 'a few senators and their aides,' according to a copy obtained by The Guardian. Huma Abedin attends The 2021 Met Gala on Sept. 13 'I 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. Once inside, he told me to make myself comfortable on the couch.' She said the senator took off his blazer, rolled up his sleeves and made coffee before sitting beside her on the couch. '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. 'I was so utterly shocked, I pushed him away. All I wanted was for the last 10 seconds to be erased.' She said that the senator seemed shocked but apologized and said he had 'misread' their relationship. Abedin said she then plotted how to leave 'without this ending badly,' as the senator asked her if she wanted to stay. '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.' Abedin said that she kept her distance from the senator 'for a few days,' but eventually ran into him on Capitol Hill. He asked her at the time if they were still friends. She wrote that Clinton then came up to join them. The Clinton aide said that the memory of the couch incident was suppressed until she read about Ford 'being accused of "conveniently" remembering' her alleged assault. Ford claimed Kavanaugh assaulted her at a gathering in high school, Kavanaugh claimed such an incident never happened and was still confirmed to the bench. Abedin's estranged husband has had his own repeated sex scandals, one of which involved sexting with a 15-year-old girl. Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility