A KABC radio anchor accused Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Thursday of forcibly kissing her back in 2006 and provided a photo of him groping her in her sleep on a separate occasion, prior to his Senate election.

Leeann Tweeden, host of “McIntyre in the Morning” on KABC Radio in Los Angeles, detailed her experiences with Franken in a piece published on the site, saying that the harassment happened when she and Franken were part of a United Service Organizations (USO) tour to the Middle East “to entertain our troops.” Franken wrote a skit that included a part for Tweeden, in which she was supposed to kiss him.

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“I suspected what he was after, but I figured I could turn my head at the last minute, or put my hand over his mouth, to get more laughs from the crowd,” Tweeden wrote.

On the day the show was set to occur, Tweeden said that Franken pressured her to rehearse the kiss backstage alone.

“I laughed and ignored him. Then he said it again,” Tweeden wrote. “He continued to insist, and I was beginning to get uncomfortable.”

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“I said ‘OK’ so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth,” Tweeden added. “I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn’t be so nice about it the next time.”

Tweeden said that she felt “disgusted and violated” after the encounter with Franken, noting that she turned her head during the skit performance to avoid kissing him on the lips.

“And as we hear more and more about Mr. Weinstein, it’s important to remember that while his behavior was appalling, it’s far too common,” Franken wrote.

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To make matters even worse, Tweeden included a photo showing Franken groping her through her flak vest while she was asleep.

“I’ve decided it’s time to tell my story. #MeToo,” Tweeden tweeted with the photo.

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“It wasn’t until I was back in the US and looking through the CD of photos we were given by the photographer that I saw this one,” Tweeden wrote. “I couldn’t believe it. He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep. I felt violated all over again. Embarrassed. Belittled. Humiliated. How dare anyone grab my breasts like this and think it’s funny?”

Tweeden said that she didn’t speak up at the time because she was “worried about the potential backlash and damage going public might have on my career as a broadcaster.” But Tweeden said she was emboldened by Rep. Jackie Speier’s (D-Calif.) recent revelation that she was sexually harassed as a young congressional aide, as well as the heightened national awareness of sexual harassment and assault accusations.

“I want to have the same effect on [victims] that Congresswoman Jackie Speier had on me,” Tweeden said. “I want the days of silence to be over forever.”

Back on October 10, Franken took to Facebook to decry disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein after a wave of sexual assault and harassment allegations surfaced.

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“And as we hear more and more about Mr. Weinstein, it’s important to remember that while his behavior was appalling, it’s far too common,” Franken wrote. “As I’ve listened to their experiences, I’ve realized that the disappointing responses women often face when they go public both embolden harassers and encourage victims to stay silent.”

NBC senior digital news editor Asher Klein tweeted that he had received a response to the allegations from Franken: “I certainly don’t remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann. As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn’t. I shouldn’t have done it.”

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In her article, Tweeden also wrote, “Senator Franken, you wrote the script. But there’s nothing funny about sexual assault.”

(photo credit, homepage images: Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0, by Lorie Shaull; photo credit, article images: Al Franken, CC BY-SA 4.0, by Lorie Shaull)