A viral image of then-Vice President Joe Biden giving a woman a seemingly creepy embrace in 2015 was taken wildly out of context, the woman says — as the potential presidential hopeful is facing accusations from another woman that he got too handsy during a 2014 campaign event.

Stephanie Carter, the wife of Obama-era Defense Secretary Ash Carter, says Uncle Joe did nothing untoward when he planted his hands on her shoulders and whispered something in her ear during her husband’s swearing-in on Feb. 17, 2015.

“The Joe Biden in my picture is a close friend helping someone get through a big day, for which I will always be grateful. So, as the sole owner of my story, it is high time that I reclaim it — from strangers, Twitter, the pundits and the late-night hosts,” Carter wrote in a Medium post.

Carter said she had slipped on some ice at Arlington National Cemetery earlier in the day and was feeling particularly self-conscious about the fall — and concerned about her husband’s high-pressure new gig — when Biden comforted her.

The image became part of what Biden critics call a pattern of creepy behavior.

“After the swearing in, as Ash was giving remarks, [Biden] leaned in to tell me, ‘Thank you for letting him do this’ and kept his hands on my shoulders as a means of offering his support. But a still shot taken from a video — misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends — sent out in a snarky tweet — came to be the lasting image of that day,” she wrote.

Carter said she hoped the matter would disappear, but the image seems to resurface every few years — especially now that Biden is weighing a 2020 presidential run — and she wanted to put the rumors to bed.

“I thought it would all blow over if I didn’t dignify it with a response. But clearly that was wishful thinking,” she wrote. “I won’t pretend that this will be the last of that picture, but it will be the last of other people speaking for me.”

The image once again made its rounds after Democratic Nevada lawmaker Lucy Flores claimed that Biden inappropriately touched her and kissed her on the back of the head during a 2014 campaign stop, leaving her feeling “uneasy, gross, and confused.”

“Let me state upfront that I don’t know [Flores], but I absolutely support her right to speak her truth and she should be, like all women, believed,” Carter said in her Medium post.

In a statement provided to CNN on Monday, Biden said he did not recall the 2014 incident the same way but pledged to listen and advocate for women.

“We have arrived at an important time when women feel they can and should relate their experiences, and men should pay attention. And I will,” he said.