'Her name is Ginger - it makes sense he might have mixed us up,' Cordova said of the scandal. Student: Weiner photo likely meant for porn star

The woman who was sent a lewd photo from the Twitter account of Rep. Anthony Weiner says she doesn’t think the New York Democrat’s account was hacked, but that he may have been trying to send the photo to a porn star with a similar name.

Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old college student from Seattle, posed for a photo shoot with The New York Post on Thursday and shared her side of the story.


“Her name is Ginger — it makes sense he might have mixed us up,” Cordova said, referring to Ginger Lee, a stripper and porn star who follows Weiner on Twitter.

In March, Lee tweeted about wanting “sexual relations” with Weiner and, less than two weeks later, she wrote that she’d received a private direct message from the congressman. Weiner had also followed Lee on Twitter but said he stopped doing so when he found out who she was.

Weiner said in an interview with CNN earlier this week that he thinks his note to Lee was a “fairly pro forma thing that goes out” to people who follow him on Twitter.

Weiner has said he asked a lawyer to look into the hacking but hasn’t reported it to the authorities. He further fanned the controversy when he said earlier this week that the picture might be of him.

Though some reports have suggested otherwise, Cordova, who issued a lengthy statement over the weekend, said she has never supported Weiner’s claim that his account was hacked.

“Everyone’s [writing] that I backed [Weiner’s] contention that there was a hacking,” she told the Post. “But I never mentioned anything about a hacking.”

Cordova said she’s become “collateral damage” in the Weiner scandal and “just want[s] this to be over” so that she can move on with her life. She wants to work as a restaurant hostess or law firm assistant this summer while on vacation from school.

Cordova’s been overwhelmed with interview requests, and “people are saying, ‘You need a book deal,’” but she said she’s not interested. “What for? This isn’t my place, I just want to get it over with.”

“I’ve just been thinking about how I can get my privacy back,” she added.

Meanwhile, Weiner’s Washington office staff on Thursday called Capitol Police after being approached by a reporter from New York’s CBS affiliate who said she wanted Weiner “to say something to his constituents, the people who have to vote for him.”

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