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CTV said in a story posted Tuesday that “the first accuser maintains the incident happened during a visit to Brown’s home with a mutual friend,” adding “that friend told CTV News he has no recollection of the night.”

However, when contacted by Postmedia, the friend insisted he wasn’t with the first accuser that night or with her ever at Brown’s home.

“I have known (her) since I was 16,” said the friend, who didn’t want to be identified because of the virulent controversy surrounding the story.

“I was actually very good friends with her,” he said. “We met through church at a youth group there.”

The friend said he was contacted by CTV Tuesday afternoon, and told the woman claimed she had been “partying” with him and another friend on the night Brown pressed her for sex, an allegation he adamantly denied.

“I don’t know if he suggested I had been drinking but I would dispute any allegation I was drinking at the time,” the friend told Postmedia. “Quite simply I didn’t start drinking until a little bit later in life.”

The friend, who Brown describes as an “acquaintance,” said it’s true he told CTV he had “no recollection” but also made it clear that if the events the accuser described happened, he was never there and had no knowledge of them.

Nor has he ever seen Brown or the young woman together.

“I have no recollection of her interacting with Patrick at a bar or elsewhere,” he said.

The first accuser issued a statement through her lawyer, David Butt, in which the woman said she sticks by her story.