‘I saw his dark side’

A former girlfriend of second gentleman Doug Emhoff said she was left “embarrassed and humiliated” when he slapped her following an event at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in the South of France.

The woman, a New York attorney identified only as “Jane,” told the outlet she was talking to a valet to try to persuade him to give her and Emhoff special treatment when her beau struck.

“As I’m talking to him, Doug got out of the line, comes up, turns me around by my right shoulder. I’m completely caught off guard, I’m not bracing, I’m in four inch heels, wearing a full-length gown and it’s between 2-3 a.m.,” she told the DailyMail. “He slaps me so hard I spin around, and I’m in utter shock.”

“There had been no fight, no argument,” she added. “In that moment, his mask had dropped and I saw his dark side.”

Associates of Jane had come forward earlier this month with the allegations against Emhoff.

A spokesperson has vehemently denied the accusations, telling Semafor, “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.”