BREAKING: Former Campaign Staffer Sues Trump for Allegedly Kissing Her Without Her Consent

A former staffer on the 2016 Trump campaign is suing President Donald Trump for the emotional damages he caused her by paying her less than her white male colleagues and allegedly kissing her without her consent.

In a lawsuit filed Monday morning in Florida, 43-year-old Alva Johnson said Trump had grabbed her hand and kissed her on the lips while he was getting out of an RV during a campaign rally trip on August 24, 2016, in Tampa, Florida. Johnson told the Washington Post he had leaned in for a kiss when she accidentally turned her head, and the kiss landed on the side of her mouth, which was “super-creepy and inappropriate.”

“I immediately felt violated because I wasn’t expecting it or wanting it,” she told the Post. “I can still see his lips coming straight for my face.”

Johnson, a mother of four, said the unwanted kiss happened after she had brought Trump’s campaign volunteer into the RV he was in to take photos with him. According to the lawsuit, she had given him words of encouragement before his rally and told him he’s “doing an awesome job. Go in there and kick ass.” That is when he leaned in for the kiss.

“Oh, my God, I think he’s going to kiss me,” she related to the Post. “He’s coming straight for my lips. So I turn my head, and he kisses me right on the corner of my mouth, still holding my hand the entire time. Then he walks on out.”

Several Trump employees and allies have denied the claims against him, saying they had never seen or heard of the kiss until now. Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s newest campaign spokeswoman, called Johnson’s allegation “off-base and unfounded.” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called it “absurd on its face.” Two of the witnesses Johnson had identified, then-Florida attorney general Pam Bondi and another campaign official, told the Post they did not see the alleged kiss happen.

Stephanie Grisham, First Lady Melania Trump‘s spokeswoman, and the former Trump campaign press director said she was with Trump as he was exiting the RV and did not see the alleged kiss.

“This never happened and is directly contradicted by multiple highly credible eye witness accounts,” Sanders wrote in a statement.

Johnson said she had considered coming forward about the alleged kiss in October 2016 before Trump’s election but was too nervous. According to the New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow, the nondisclosure agreement that campaign employees were made to sign, prohibiting employees from sharing information “in any way detrimental to the Company, Mr. Trump, any Family Member, any Trump Company or any Family Member company,” made matters even more complicated for Johnson.

The former Trump employee finally became more encouraged by the #MeToo movement and, after a year of communicating with the Post, decided to share her story and file the lawsuit. She said she became motivated to be vocal after hearing the stories of “babies in cages,” referring to Trump’s tighter approach to immigration and border security.

Johnson’s attorney, Hassan Zavareei, says her immediate family members strongly support her in her lawsuit against the President, despite two of them filing a restraining order against her, according to court records. Zavareei said the family dispute had been “resolved years ago.”