希拉里·克林顿的长期助手胡玛·阿贝丁她习惯了在幕后度过一生，周一接受美国广播公司《观点》采访时表示，随着她的新回忆录《两者兼而有之》的发行，她已经掌控了自己的故事

“在公共服务和公共场合度过了25年的大半生后，我觉得有人在讲述我的故事。如果你让别人讲你的故事，他们就是在写你的历史。对我来说，写这本书简直是一种不可思议的治疗，”她在一次独家日间采访中说。

“我认为这是一个很好的分享故事，也许它会帮助一些妇女和一些棕色皮肤的女孩和一些穆斯林，”具有印度和巴基斯坦血统的阿贝丁补充道。

在她新回忆录中报道的细节中，阿贝丁回忆了她20多岁时的一件事——她现在45岁——她说，在她写的一次有“几名参议员和他们的助手”参加的华盛顿晚宴后，一名参议员邀请她去他的公寓喝咖啡，让她在沙发上舒服一点，然后未经她同意吻了她——她称这不是一些头条新闻所说的“性侵犯”，而是一种“不舒服的情况”。一些人说，她应该指认此人，以防其他人提出类似指控。

美国广播公司新闻

2021年11月1日，胡玛·阿贝丁出现在美国广播公司的《观点》节目中，讨论她的新书。

她在书中写道:“他扑通一声坐到我的右边，用左臂搂住我的肩膀，吻了我，把舌头伸进我的嘴里，把我按回沙发上。”她说，当她推开参议员时，参议员道歉了，并说他“一直”误解了她。”

“为什么不说出他的名字?”《风景》的联合主持人乔·贝哈和桑尼·霍斯丁问道。

“我选择包含我的全部真相，”阿贝丁回答道。“我确实隐瞒了那件事。我想回到21世纪，这就是你必须要做的。我是说，对我来说，让我自己感到惊讶的一件事是我自己道歉了。她说:“我的反应是，我说‘对不起’，然后我就离开了，我不认为这是你知道的从政的专属。

她为自己不提名参议员的决定辩护，称这是她的故事，不是他的。

“我完全隐瞒了这个故事，直到我在电视上看到了医生(克里斯汀·布拉西)福特——实际上是因为她方便的记忆而被询问，”她说，显然是讽刺的，指的是福特在布雷特·卡瓦诺最高法院确认听证会上的证词，“当我看到她被询问时，那种记忆又涌上我的心头。”

阿贝丁第一次进入她称之为“希尔亚利兰德”的地方是在1996年，当时她在白宫实习，随后跟随这位前民主党总统候选人回到参议院，然后进入国务院。她是克林顿在这两个问题上的高级顾问总统竞选但她说，她自己的个人生活和心理健康也要付出一些代价。

“当你放下这本书，读完最后一页，也许全国一半的人会不同意我的观点，但这个女人是一个非凡的人，除了在我看来，她是有史以来最有资格竞选总统的人。句号。她谈到克林顿时说。

《观点报》的联合主持人询问了书中的一个细节，阿贝丁在书中描述了2019年考虑从地铁站台上走下来的情形，2016年大选之后，阿贝丁又回到了自己的顶空。

“我的生活没有平衡。在很大程度上，我的工作就是我的生活。只有当我走下跑步机，意识到我必须处理所有这些愤怒时——因为我对我的配偶有太多的愤怒和痛苦，因为我的早婚和第一次丑闻之后，”她说。“我只是想要回我的生活。”

“竞选结束时，我有点孤军奋战。我是一个人，单亲，所以这是我最艰难的时刻，那时我意识到我需要帮助。我明白了，”她说。

在她当时的丈夫、四面楚歌的前纽约州众议员安东尼·韦纳(Anthony Weiner)的性丑闻之后，当她的电子邮件成为2016年总统竞选的一大部分时，阿贝丁陷入了争议之中，此前美国联邦调查局(FBI)在大选前几天宣布，调查人员将重新审查克林顿使用私人电子邮件服务器的情况。据确定，阿贝丁向她和当时的丈夫使用的个人设备转发了一些电子邮件。

联合主持人莎拉·海恩斯要求阿贝丁回应那些可能会质疑她为什么要和蒙羞的前夫在一起这么多年的人。

她回答说:“我觉得现在很多人回顾我的婚姻，都是从2021年的角度来看，也就是后知后觉是20/20。“如果我在2017年或2018年写了这本书，那时它可能会更有新闻性，我认为这将是一本愤怒或苦涩的书，因为我必须经历这个过程。”

Huma Abedin, longtime Clinton aide, defends decision not to name senator she says kissed her

Longtime Hillary Clinton aideHuma Abedin, accustomed to spending her life behind the scenes, told ABC's "The View" on Monday that she's taken control of her story with the release of her new memoir, "Both/And."

"After 25 years of living most of my life in public service and in public, I felt like somebody else was telling my story. And if you let somebody else tell your story, they're writing your history. And for me, writing the book, was just such an incredible therapy," she said in an exclusive daytime interview.

"I thought it's a good story to share, and maybe it'll help some women and some brown girls and some Muslims," added Abedin, who is of Indian and Pakistani descent.

Among reported details in her new memoir, Abedin recalls an incident from her twenties -- she's now 45 -- in which she says, following a Washington dinner that she writes was attended by "a few senators and their aides," one senator invited her up to his apartment for coffee, asked her to get comfortable on the couch, and then kissed her without her consent -- describing it not as a "sexual assault" as some headlines have stated, but as an "uncomfortable situation." Some have said she should identify the person in case others might make similar allegations.

"He plopped down to my right, put his left arm around my shoulder, and kissed me, pushing his tongue into my mouth, pressing me back on the sofa," she writes in the book, saying the senator apologized when she pushed him away and said he had "misread" her "all this time."

"Why not name him?" asked "The View" co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin.

"I chose to include my full truth," Abedin replied. "I did bury that incident. I think back in the 2000s -- that is just how you had to act. I mean, to me, one of the surprising things to myself is that I apologized, myself. The way I reacted is, I said, 'I'm sorry,' and I left, and I don't think this is you know exclusive to being in politics," she said.

She defended her decision not to name the senator, saying this is her story, not his.

"I totally buried the story until I was watching Doctor [Christine Blasey] Ford on TV -- literally being questioned for her convenient memory,” she said, apparently sarcastically, referring to Ford's testimony during Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, “and as I see her being questioned, that memory comes flooding back to me."

Abedin first entered "Hillaryland," as she called it, when she started as a White House intern in 1996 before following the former Democratic nominee for president first back to the Senate and then to the State Department. She served as a top adviser to Clinton on both of hercampaigns for presidentbut not without some costs to her own personal life and mental health, she says.

"When you put this book down and read the last page, and maybe half the country will disagree with me, but this woman is an extraordinary human being, aside from the fact that she was the most qualified person, in my opinion, to ever run for president. Full stop. Period," she said of Clinton.

"The View" co-hosts asked about a detail in the book in which Abedin describes considering walking off a subway platform in 2019, and Abedin went back to her headspace in the wake of the 2016 election.

"I did not have balance in my life. My work was my life for much of it. And it was only when I stepped off the treadmill and realized I had to deal with all this anger -- because I had so much anger and bitterness towards my spouse for so much of my early marriage and after, you know, the first scandal," she said. "I just wanted my life back."

"At the end of the campaign, I was kind of on my own. I was alone, a single parent, and so it was I had my hard moment, and that's when I realized I needed help. And I got it," she said.

Following the sexting scandals of her then-husband, embattled former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., Abedin became enveloped in controversy when her emails became a large part of the 2016 presidential campaign after the FBI announced days before the election that investigators would re-examine Clinton's use of a private email server. It was determined that Abedin had forwarded some emails to personal devices used by both she and her then-husband.

Co-host Sara Haines asked Abedin to respond to those who might question why she stayed with her disgraced ex-husband for so many years.

"I think a lot of people now when they look back at my marriage, they're looking at it from 2021 perspective, which is hindsight is 20/20," she replied. "If I'd written this book in 2017 or 2018, when maybe it would have been more newsy, I think it would have been an angry or bitter book because I had to go through that process."