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Posted: 2017-10-25T11:11:15Z | Updated: 2017-10-26T17:38:22Z

Former President George H.W. Bush said he was sorry after actress Heather Lind accused him of sexually assaulting her during a TV show promotion in 2014.

President Bush would never under any circumstance intentionally cause anyone distress, and he most sincerely apologizes if his attempt at humor offended Ms. Lind, Jim McGrath, a Bush spokesman, told HuffPost Wednesday in a statement.

Later Wednesday, Bushs office issued a second statement saying that the former president has patted womens rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner and that because he is confined to a wheelchair, his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures.

See the full statement below:

JUST IN: Pres. H.W. Bush \"has patted womens rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner,\" his office says in new statement. pic.twitter.com/kmAqfxlBQZ

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JUST IN: Pres. H.W. Bush "has patted womens rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner," his office says in new statement. pic.twitter.com/kmAqfxlBQZ

NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) October 25, 2017

In a now-deleted Instagram post on Tuesday, Lind said she posed with Bush, who was in a wheelchair, for a photo-op during a private screening in Houston of her AMC television series, Turn: Washingtons Spies. He sexually assaulted me , she wrote in the post, according to reports.