Ottawa [Canada], July 07 (NT): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is grabbing headlines for all wrong reasons.

 The woman, who had accused Trudeau of groping her at the beginning of the millennium, on Friday, issued a statement exposing herself to be ex journalist Rose Knight.

Taking to micro blogging website Senior reporter at CBC News Catherine Cullen on the official Twitter handle posted an image of the statement.

"The woman who made the groping allegation against Justin Trudeau in 2000 has issued a statement, including her name. #cndpoli," she wrote, attaching the statement alongside.

A report had came in the Creston Valley Advance in the year 2000 after the Kokanee Summit in Creston, a music festival, which made allegations over Trudeau of "groping" and "inappropriately handling" a young female scribe who was covering the event. It also said that the anonymous woman had felt "blatantly disrespected" by Trudeau, as CBC News reported.

It further asserted  that PM Trudeau had apologized after the incident.

"I'm sorry. If I had known you were reporting for a national paper I never would have been so forward," Trudeau was  quoted in the report as saying.

Knight asserts in her statement that she issued it "reluctantly" and that she "did not pursue the incident at the time and will not be pursuing the incident further," adding that she did not issue it earlier out of worries for her family's privacy.