Washington (CNN) A former adviser to first lady Melania Trump who was involved in the planning of President Donald Trump's inauguration disputed the White House's account of her 2018 departure, The New York Times reported Monday.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff objects to suggestions by White House officials that she was forced out of the East Wing job she held after Trump took office because she profited excessively from Trump's inaugural events, the Times reports.

The firm she founded was paid close to $26 million to plan events around Trump's first inauguration, the Times first reported and CNN later confirmed.

"Was I fired? No," Wolkoff told the Times in a statement published on Monday. "Did I personally receive $26 million or $1.6 million? No. Was I thrown under the bus? Yes."

In particular, Wolkoff takes issue with the way she was dismissed from her White House role versus what she says is the way the first lady's office, specifically Trump's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, gave reporters a "misleading statement about these events" at the time, according to the Times.

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