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Woman Allegedly Groped By Justin Trudeau Breaks Her Silence

"I issue this statement reluctantly, in response to mounting media pressure," the former reporter wrote in a statement on Friday.
A female reporter in 2000 accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, photographed at a press conference during the G7 summit in June, of groping her.

"The debate, if it continues, will continue without my involvement," the woman who accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of groping her years ago said in a statement on Friday.

After the 18-year-old allegation reemerged this spring,

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