RFK Jr. apologizes to women who accused him of sexual assault: reports

According to several media reports, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. privately apologized to a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

Eliza Cooney, who worked as a part-time nanny for the candidate’s family in the 1990s, described in a Vanity Fair report several incidents in which Kennedy behaved inappropriately and made sexual advances to the then 23-year-old.

According to the Washington Post, which first reported the text, and Reuters, Kennedy apologized for the report in a text message to Cooney on July 4, two days after the Vanity Fair article was published.

“I don’t remember this incident, but I sincerely apologize for anything I did that made you feel uncomfortable, or anything I did or said that offended you or hurt your feelings,” Kennedy wrote in the text, according to reports. “I never intended to harm you. If I hurt you, it was unintentional. I feel bad for doing that.”

Kennedy also asked if Cooney, now 48, would agree to a face-to-face meeting, adding that he had “no intention in sending this text message other than to make sincere and earnest amends.”

Although Kennedy apologized privately, in an interview on the podcast “Breaking Points” published on July 2, the presidential candidate initially denied the allegations, saying they were part of his “wild youth.”

“I’ve said this from the beginning: I’m not a church boy,” Kennedy said. “I’ve got so many skeletons in the closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.”

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