'Perpetually Horny' Weiner Cops to Explicit Online Relations With Up to 10 Women While Congressman
As he continues facing the music for his explicit online indiscretions, former New York City congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner admitted that he had inappropriate online relationships with up to 10 women while in Congress.
In a Washington Post report on Thursday, the serial sexter, now also popularly known by his online pseudonym Carlos Danger, also told reporters that he thinks he relapsed into his online fetish no more than three times since his shameful exit from Congress.
"I don't believe I had any more than three," Weiner said to reporters in response to queries about how many women he virtually cavorted with through explicit messages after stepping down in 2011.
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Before his exit, he noted: "Six to 10, I suppose — but I can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider appropriate or not."
In his most candid description of his unmasked life online, the once promising politician who says he won't back out of the mayoral race due to his past, admitted that he frequently sexted with unknown women online.
And it was one of those sexting partners, 23-year-old Sydney Leathers, that brought the past to haunt Weiner's future as she continues sharing intimate details of their explicit life online, including pictures of his genitals.
"Anthony Weiner is responsible for his downfall," said Leathers in an exclusive interview with Inside Edition on Thursday. "I feel sick about it. I'm disgusted by him. He is not who I thought he was."
In the interview, INSIDE EDITION's Jim Moret noted to Leathers, "I read one quote that suggested you thought he was a dirty old man."
But she replied: "He actually said that about himself to me. The exact wording is that he is an argumentative, perpetually horny middle-aged man."
She explained that their relationship started in June 2011 after he resigned from Congress for sending pictures of his private part to other women he met online. She sent him a Facebook message criticizing him and a year later in July 2012, he responded with a Facebook poke.
When Moret asked, "when did things turn dark and dirty?"
Leathers replied: "Very quickly."
"Who prompted that?" asked Moret.
"He did," she replied.
"So, Anthony Weiner moved your conversation from professional to dirty?"
"Yes," said Leathers.
Weiner said he is currently getting help for his behavior but does not see his actions as an addiction.
Prior to this untimely revisit to his past, Weiner was enjoying a comfortable frontrunner status in the race for New York City mayor. A recent Marist/NBC/Wall Street Journal poll now shows him tied for second place among registered and likely Democratic voters. City Council President Christine Quinn is now ahead of the pack.
"Weiner has lost his lead, and his negatives are at an all-time high," said pollster Lee Miringoff.
