Ex-Cuomo aide details groping allegations

New York governor Andrew Cuomo (Mary Altaffer/AP)

An executive assistant who has accused New York governor Andrew Cuomo of groping her has detailed why she felt empowered to go public with her allegations, as a key legislative committee is set to discuss possible impeachment hearings.

Brittany Commisso, one of nearly a dozen women whose accounts of alleged sexual harassment by Mr Cuomo were outlined in a report by the state’s attorney general, told her story for the first time on camera in an interview that aired on Monday.