The ex of Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff confirmed to Daily Mail that she was slapped by Doug at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Daily Mail reported it based on the account of the woman’s friends and Emhoff’s office denied the report. Now Daily Mail claimed the woman who was the victim spoke up and confirmed that she was slapped so hard that she spun around.
“As I’m talking to him, Doug got out of the line, comes up, turns me around by my right shoulder. I’m completely caught off guard, I’m not bracing, I’m in four-inch heels, wearing a full-length gown and it’s between 2-3 a.m.,” she told the Mail. “He slaps me so hard I spin around, and I’m in utter shock.”
“There had been no fight, no argument,” she added. “In that moment, his mask had dropped and I saw his dark side.”
The allegation that Doug Emhoff slapped his girlfriend in public came at a time when he was being championed as a green flag for wholeheartedly supporting Kamala Harris’ presidential race. In an interview, Doug said he was always like that, a believer in women’s empowerment and his father too believed the same.
Daily Mail reported that the woman who is a New York attorney initially declined to comment on the record on the slapping incident but “Emhoff’s denial, and his alleged hypocrisy by claiming to be a feminist in media interviews, finally became too much for her”.
“What’s frightening for a woman that’s been on the other end of it, is watching this completely fabricated persona being portrayed,” the woman said.
This is not the first controversy over the Second Gentleman as Doug Emhoff reportedly cheated on his first wife with his daughter’s nanny leading to his divorce from Kerstin Emhoff. He did not deny this report.
But the slapping incident has been denied by Doug. In a statement to Semafor, a spokesperson from his office said the report is untrue and “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.”
