Like, ‘Hey dude, you shouldn’t have touched me like that?’” 
 
 Roslyn Corrigan (L), former president George H.W. Five other women have made similar claims against Bush in recent weeks. Bush's spokesman, Jim McGrath, issued a statement to CNN on Wednesday that "President Bush would never — under any circumstance — intentionally cause anyone distress, and he most sincerely apologizes if his attempt at humor offended Ms. A Bush representative on Wednesday issued an apology and said that the nation's 41st president, in the past, "has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner.” That statement was issued after an actress posted on her Instagram account that Bush had touched her "from behind" while she posed for a photo with him. He grabbed me on my butt.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my god, are you kidding me?’ 
 
 “I was really, really upset — she was very upset, she was really, really mad,” she added. Actress Heather Lind was the first to openly accuse Bush of groping her while they posed for a photo during a promotional tour for her AMC series Turn: Washington’s Spies in 2013. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,” Lind wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post on Oct. 24. The Associated Press has reported that since Lind's claim, another actress, Jordana Grolnick, said Bush grabbed her buttocks during a group photo in 2016 at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. On Oct. 26, best-selling author Christina Baker Kline wrote in Slate that Bush groped her during an April 2014 photo op at a Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy fundraiser in Houston. Liz Allen, a retired Erie Times-News journalist, said in an Oct. 26 Facebook post that Bush touched her from behind at a local business association event while taking a photograph with the former president in Erie, Pa. in 2004. Bush’s spokesperson, McGrath, declined a separate request from TIME to comment on Staples and Allen’s allegations, which they said occurred when the former president was standing up. “When I heard that was the reason, like, ‘Oh, he’s just an old man and he doesn’t know any better and he’s just being harmless and playful and it’s just where his arm falls… I just burst into uncontrollable sobbing,” Corrigan said.
– A sixth woman has come forward to accuse George HW Bush of groping her, and Roslyn Corrigan says she was just 16 when it happened. It was 2003, and Corrigan's father and other intelligence officers had brought their family members to an event to meet Bush, then 79. While she was standing next to the former president for a photo, "as soon as the picture was being snapped on the one-two-three he dropped his hands from my waist down to my buttocks and gave it a nice, ripe squeeze, which would account for the fact that in the photograph my mouth is hanging wide open," Corrigan tells Time. Her mother, Sari Young, recalls that as soon as Bush walked away, her daughter told her, "'He grabbed me on the rear end.' And I said, 'What, what?' And she said, 'Yes, he grabbed me when they were taking the picture. He grabbed me on my butt.'" Sari says they weren't sure what to do because of whom they were dealing with. "You know, it's the president. What are you supposed to do? And you've got your husband's job that could be in jeopardy. I mean, you just didn't then. You should—you should have always spoken up, always—but we didn't." "I was a child," Corrigan adds. Multiple other friends and Corrigan's ex-husband also say she told them the story. "George Bush simply does not have it in his heart to knowingly cause anyone harm or distress, and he again apologizes to anyone he may have offended during a photo op," the former president's spokesperson says in a statement to Time. Bush's other accusers are an actress, another actress, an author, a former Maine Senate candidate, and a retired journalist, all of whom shared similar stories about groping that allegedly occurred during photo ops.