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'Al Franken Kissed and Groped Me Without My Consent'

Leeann Tweeden, a radio host, came forward to accuse the Democratic senator of inappropriate behavior on a 2006 USO tour.
Source: KABC

Updated on November 16 at 12:54 p.m.

Leeann Tweeden, a Los Angeles radio host and former model, says Senator Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, kissed her against her will and groped her during a 2006 USO trip to Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

In a post on the website of KABC, where she is a morning anchor, Tweeden writes that she was in a skit with Franken in which his character tried to kiss her. She writes that she expected a stage kiss in which she turned her head, but that backstage he insisted they needed to practice the kiss. She demurred, but he insisted, she said.

He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we practice the kiss.

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