Entrepreneur and presidential candidate Andrew Yang Andrew YangDoctor who allegedly assaulted Evelyn Yang arrested on federal charges The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden weighs in on police shootings | Who's moderating the debates | Trump trails in post-convention polls Buttigieg launches his own podcast MORE said Sunday that after he learned his wife Evelyn had been sexually assaulted by her doctor he "felt like I'd failed her."

“It was extraordinarily painful, the fact is I was away many of the times she’d had these appointments, I felt like I’d failed her and it’s heartbreaking that this happened to Evelyn, it’s heartbreaking that it happened to anyone,” Yang told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Christopher (Chris) WallaceThe Memo: Media accused of using kid-gloves on Biden Biden town hall draws 3.3 million viewers for CNN Gates says travel ban made COVID-19 worse in US MORE on "Fox News Sunday."

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“Evelyn’s story is not unique to her, we’ve had this outpouring of support and gratitude from many women who have been in similar situations,” Yang added.

“What we have to do as a country is acknowledge these situations happen more often than we’d like to believe and that institutions instead of protecting the doctor in this case should be doing what they can to protect ourselves, our wives, our daughters, our mothers, we can do better than this as a country,” he said.

He added that the response to Evelyn Yang’s disclosure had made him believe such improvements were possible.

Evelyn Yang told CNN’s Dana Bash Dana BashTrump says officials will investigate whether California is using 1619 Project in classrooms Veterans Affairs secretary defends Trump: 'I judge a man by his actions' GOP senator dismisses national intelligence director election security briefings: 'This is blown way out of proportion' MORE earlier this month that she was assaulted by Dr. Robert Hadden of Columbia University while pregnant with her first child. The assaults included subjecting her to medically unnecessary medical examinations, she said.

"I feel like I put up with some inappropriate behavior that I didn't know at the time was straight-up sexual abuse slash sexual assault until much later," she said.