Karena Virginia, a self-described wellness expert and TV personality, alleged that Trump grabbed her arm and touched her breast. | Getty Accuser says Trump grabbed her at U.S. Open in 1998

Another woman emerged Thursday accusing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of having groped her in the past.

Karena Virginia, a self-described wellness expert and TV personality, alleged that Trump grabbed her arm and touched her breast during an encounter at the U.S. Open in Flushing, Queens, New York, in 1998.


“Hey, look at this one,” she recalled overhearing Trump telling a group of men. “We haven’t seen her before. Look at those legs.”

Virginia, speaking alongside attorney Gloria Allred during a news conference in New York, said the interaction occurred while she was waiting for a car to take her home.

He made those comments “as though I was an object rather than a person,” she said, reading from a document. “He then walked up to me and reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm. Then his hand touched the right inside of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched. ‘Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?’ That’s what he said to me.”

Acknowledging that she’s been advised that Trump will likely retaliate by calling her a liar or, as he did to Hillary Clinton in Wednesday’s presidential debate, “a nasty woman.” But she said she was compelled to speak for herself, her family and the other women who have accused Trump of forcibly kissing and groping them over a span of decades — charges Trump has denied and dismissed as attempts at fame and attention set up by the Clinton campaign.

Her voice breaking, Virginia said she felt “intimidated” and “powerless,” adding that once her car arrived her “shock” transformed to “shame.” She said she felt shame from wearing a short dress with high heels, a feeling she said lingered for “a while” and made her disinclined to wear that type of clothing for fear of attracting more unwanted attention.

Virginia recalled encountering Trump again years later. She claimed Trump looked her “up and down a few times” at what she described was a business setting, bringing back her feelings of “shame” and “disgust.”

“Mr. Trump, perhaps you do not remember me,” she said, her voice beginning to break again, “or what you did to me so many years ago, but I can assure you that I remember you and what you did to me as though it was yesterday. Your random moment of sexual pleasure came at my expense and affected me greatly. Mr. Trump revealed his true character in his own words on [the 'Access Hollywood'] tape, which indicated that he felt entitled to grab women by their private parts.”

In a statement, Trump’s campaign referred to Allred, who joined Summer Zervos last week when she accused Trump of sexual impropriety, as a “discredited political operative.”

“Allred, in another coordinated, publicity seeking attack with the Clinton campaign, will stop at nothing to smear Mr. Trump,” deputy commissions director Jessica Ditto alleged. “Give me a break. Voters are tired of these circus-like antics and reject these fictional stories and the clear efforts to benefit Hillary Clinton.”