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‘I am stalking you’: 26-year-old single mum reveals how Weiner 'pursued her online' after she ‘liked’ YouTube video of one of his speeches
Last updated at 5:59 PM on 7th June 2011
- Single mom claims she and Weiner exchanged hundreds of messages during month-long 'electronic relationship', including many of a sexual nature
- He sent her infamous 'crotch photo' - nine days before scandal broke
- Started sending her messages after she 'liked' a video of his speech
- Called her from his New York congressional office
- Weiner confirms she was one of the woman he exchanged messages with
- She said she came forward before her identity was leaked online
A 26-year-old single mother who claimed to have a month-long electronic relationship with disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner today revealed details of their explicit online exchanges.
Megan Broussard told how Weiner started pursuing her online after she ‘liked’ a YouTube video of one of his speeches.
She claims that they exchanged hundreds of messages and he even called her from his New York congressional office - an allegation he denies.
She provided dozens of photos, emails, Facebook messages and cell phone call logs to ABC News that she says chronicled a month-long electronic relationship with the Democrat.
Miss Broussard said that Mr Weiner contacted her after she ‘liked’ a YouTube video of one of his speeches on his Facebook page on April 20.
She commented 'hotttt' on the publicly visible link. She claims Weiner ‘almost immediately’ added her as a Facebook friend from his personal account.
The woman from Texas said that they immediately began messaging each other through Facebook chat and exchanged 'hundreds of messages', many of a sexual nature.
During one Facebook conversation, Miss Broussard said she voiced uneasiness with the ‘online relationship’, to which she said Weiner replied, ‘you are not stalking me....I am stalking you’.
Miss Broussard said that they would exchange photos by e-mail as they chatted on the social networking site.
She also claimed that a man identifying himself as Weiner called her by phone from a number registered to his New York congressional office on May 18.
In the phone call she said: ‘You’re an internet rat, aren’t you?’ to which she claims he giggled.
'He heard her [Broussard's daughter] in the background, I think, and he said, "Oh is that --' and then he said her name, and I said, 'yeah, it's her birthday,' and that kind of freaked me out because you had to pilfer through my Facebook to find out her name,' she told ABC News.
Miss Broussard said the photos she received included the infamous photo of a man’s crotch that Weiner today finally admitted was him.
She received more than a dozen photos from the email address anthonyweiner@aol.com, which is listed on a campaign document.
One sent with the subject line ‘Me and the pussys’, appeared to show the congressman sat at home on his sofa next to a cat.
Miss Broussard, who describes herself as disinterested in politics, asked the congressman to take a photo of himself and write ‘me’ on it so that she knew it was him.
He replied with a photo that showed him holding up a sign along with his wedding ring.
‘I didn't think it was him,’ she told ABC News. ‘I thought for sure, “why would someone in that position be doing this?”’
The single mother from Texas said she had decided to come forward before her identity was leaked online to protect her career as an aspiring nurse and her three-year-old daughter.
In one Facebook conversation, Miss Broussard said she asked Weiner, 'Why are you so open? I said, I'm not an open book like that.
'He replied, "I'm an open book. Maybe too open",' she said.
Weiner also sent Miss Broussard several images from a separate email address, RockOh77@yahoo.com.
On May 18, she received an image showing a man's erect penis.
Two days later, she received a shot of a bare-chested man sitting at an office desk.
'I don't think he has any control over what he's doing in this area,' Miss Broussard told ABC News. 'I don't think someone can be that open in that amount of time.'
Miss Broussard said she received her last messages from Weiner on May 27, just hours before the scandal broke.
'Are you offline?' Miss Broussard wrote at 3:37 pm. 'Crashed back up,' Weiner replied at 4:21 pm.
'I don't think he's a bad guy. I think he's got issues just like everybody else,' Miss Broussard said.
'Everyone's standards are different, but to be elected to Congress and sit there all day on Facebook and chatting?'
Weiner confirmed at the press conference this afternoon that Miss Broussard was one of the women with whom he had ‘sexted’.
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