A former girlfriend of Donald Trump blasted The New York Times on Monday for fabricating part of a front-page story about the Republican presidential candidate's history with women, calling the paper's retelling of her story 'false' and demanding an apology.

The Saturday Times story described the billionaire's first meeting with the young model as 'a debasing face-to-face encounter between Mr. Trump and a young woman he hardly knew.'

'Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes,' the newspaper reported, describing a moment where he offered her a swimsuit to wear at a pool party.

Monday on 'Fox & Friends,' Lane said Trump 'never made me feel like I was being demeaned in any way. He never offended me in any way.'

'He was very gracious. I saw him around all types of people, around all types of women. He was very kind, thoughtful, generous. You know, he was a gentleman.'

Asked if Trump had ever mistreated women, she answered without hesitation: 'Not that I've ever seen. Absolutely without a doubt, no.'

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'FALSE': One of Donald Trump's ex-girlfriends said Monday that a New York Times 'hit piece' about the billionaire's treatment of women 'misquoted's her and 'spun' her positive story into a negative

PUSHING BACK; Trump, shown over the weekend on Britain's ITV network, blasted the Times for its 'hit piece cover story'

NO APOLOGY: Confident New York Times reporters Michael Barbaro (left) and Megan Twohey (right) defended their story on CNN and insisted 'none of the facts are in dispute'

TWEET-GLOAT: Trump ran victory laps on Twitter, calling the yonug reporters' article 'a fraud' and blasting the Times as a 'failing' newspaper

'I think that – they're just reaching for straws?' Lane suggested.

Trump leaped into the controversy minutes later on Twitter – misspelling his old paramour's name but leaving no doubt about his enthusiasm.

'Wow, Rosanne [sic] Brewer Lane, the most prominently depicted women in the failing @nytimes story yesterday,is on @foxandfriends saying Times lied,' he tweeted.

'The @nytimes is so dishonest. Their hit piece cover story on me yesterday was just blown up by Roseanne [sic] Brewer, who said it was a lie!'

Trump later replaced the tweets with new ones, correcting the spelling.

But Lane said the Times, considered by some as America's newspaper of record, misquoted her and took her story out of context in order to portray Trump as a misogynist.

The paper 'told us several times that they would make sure that my story that I was telling came across,' she recalled on Fox. 'They promised several times that they would do it accurately. They told me several times, and told my manager several times, that it would not be a hit piece.'

In the late morning on CNN, she doubled down.

'The way that the article was depicted, and as many times as they promised me they weren't going to do exactly what they did, they probably owe me an apology. And probably him,' she said, referring to Trump.

Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey, who penned the story, insisted minutes later on CNN that they have nothing to apologize for.

'None of the facts are in dispute,' Barbaro said, adding that 'we quoted her warmly and at length.'

'We really stand by our story. We believe we quoted her fairly and accurately, and we believe the story stands for itself.'

Twohey dodged a question about the use of the word 'debasing' to describe Trump's interactions with Lane that she later called positive.

'Rowanne was one of many voices that we included in the story,' she said.

BACHELOR DAYS: In the wake of his 1990 separation from Marla Maples, Trump was seen in the company of Lane at social events in New York City and beyond

STILL FRIENDLY: The pair posed together at a spring 2011 fashion show, long after splitting up

Trump himself disputed the overall theme of the article, which lined up nearly a dozen negative anecdotes about the 69-year-old real estate tycoon's interactions with women after conducting more than 50 interviews.

Talking specifically about the swimsuit episode in the Times article: 'A lot of things get made up over the years. I have always treated women with great respect. And women will tell you that.'

The Times quoted Lane recalling the moments after she changed into a swimsuit.

'He brought me out to the pool and said, "That is a stunning Trump girl, isn’t it?"' she told the paper.

The following paragraph framed that comment as a demeaning objectification.

'Donald Trump and women: The words evoke a familiar cascade of casual insults, hurled from the safe distance of a Twitter account, a radio show or a campaign podium,' the Times reported, setting up what was the follow. 'This is the public treatment of some women by Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president: degrading, impersonal, performed.'

Lane said Monday that she hadn't spoken with Trump since the Saturday article was published, but that the episode left her sleepless: 'I don't like what they did.'

'They did take quotes from what I said, and they put a negative connotation on it. They spun it to where it appeared negative,' she said of the Times' treatment of her.

'I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump. And I don't appreciate them making it look like that I was saying it was a negative experience. Because it was not.'

'The part where I went back out to the pool party and he made a comment, "Now that's a stunning Trump girl right there," I was actually flattered by,' she said.

'I didn't feel like it was a demeaning situation or comment at all. And that's what I told the Times. And they spun it completely differently.'

BAIT AND SWITCH: Lane told CNN that Barbaro and Twohey promised her repeatedly that they weren't working on exactly the kind of Trump 'hit piece' they turned in

'BLOWN UP': Trump tweeted his amazement at Lane's testimonial as he watched it air on the Fox News Channel

FRONT PAGE: Trump was pilloried in the Times story that Lane says was unfair

NO APOLOGIES: The Ti mes continued to promote its front-page Saturday feature after the Fox & Friends interview aired

Lane retold the entire swimsuit story on Fox, portraying it as a charming moment at the end of a long day posing for a fashion photographer.

'I was at a pool party at Mar-a-Lago with my agency and a lot of other people, and it was a night party and I had a photo shoot that I had done all day, and I had another photo shoot the next day, but I almost didn't go but my agent asked me if I would please come up and just enjoy for awhile, and so I did,' she recalled.

'And I didn't wear a bathing suit. I didn't have a swim suit. I came from a shoot, like I said.

'And I started talking with Donald, and chatting with him over the course of the first 20 minutes I was there, and we seemed to get along in conversation nicely. And it just very normally and naturally evolved into a conversation.'

'We started walking around the mansion. He was showing me the architecture. We were having a very nice conversation. And as we gat into a certain part of it – and he asked me if I had a swimsuit. And I said I didn't.

'I didn't know that I had planned – I wasn't really gonna plan on swimming. And he asked me if I wanted one. So I said, "Oh, okay." You know, "Sure." And I changed into one.'

Lane blasted the Times' portrayal of her story, speculating about why the paper's reporters got her all wrong.

'Well, honestly, they feel like they need to do something to make him look bad or go along with their article. ... I don't know how many other girls feel like they were misquoted. But I know that for a fact I was,' she said.

On CNN, Barbaro defended his reporting of that moment 25 years ago.

'She didn't have a bathing suit. She had just met Donald Trump. He asked her to put on a bathing suit. Pulled out a drawer. She put it on. He expressed admiration for her appearance, and brought her out to a predominantly male group out by the pool. And said she was a stunning-looking Trump person. I think that story speaks for itself,' he said.

'We thought it was a powerful anecdote and that's why we put it in the story.'

But he insisted that despite leading his story with Lane – who says the Times got her all wrong – 'we're talking about a pattern of behavior, the way Donald Trump interacts privately with women.'

Asked on Fox whether she planned to vote for Trump in November, Lane said: 'I think Donald is doing a great job, and he is ... a very successful businessman. He is a great leader because of that. He has a lot going for him, let's face it. And I'm supporting him.'

An hour after her live interview aired, The New York Times returned to promoting was had been seen as a bombshell series of revelations on Saturday's front page.

'How did Donald Trump behave around women in private over four decades? We interviewed dozens,' the paper's Twitter account proclaimed.

Trump fired back after the CNN broadcast with another tweet.