Former Congressman and New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (D) has confirmed that he exchanged lewd messages with a woman after his departure from Congress in light of the 2011 sexting scandal.
TheDirty.com publicized sexually explicit messages allegedly exchanged between Weiner and a woman in August of 2012, according to NPR. The site also revealed explicit photographs allegedly sent by him.
“I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have,” said the politician in a statement. “These things that I did were wrong and hurtful to my wife and caused us to go through challenges in our marriage that extended past my resignation from Congress.”
The statement also reads, “While some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, there is no question that what I did was wrong,” reports the Atlantic Wire. He did not specify what he perceives as untrue.
The woman involved has been referred to as a “young female girl” and she has said she was 22 at the time of her relationship with Weiner. She commented that the relationship consisted mostly of phone sex “daily multiple times a day.”
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