Lee says her relationship via Twitter and in some hundred or so emails began about politics, and she insists she rebuffed the congressman’s efforts to turn the conversation to sex. Lee says on June 2, as the scandal was blowing up, “he called me and told me what to say and do,” including keeping quiet and avoiding the press in the hopes the story “would calm down.” Lee said “I knew I couldn’t lie for him, but I didn’t want to be the one to kick him under the bus.”