WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump is coming to her husband’s defense, saying the vile words he spoke in an uncovered video do “not represent the man that I know.”

Mrs. Trump says in rare public statement that the words her husband used in the 2005 footage released Friday “are unacceptable and offensive to me.”

She added that the words do “not represent the man that I know,” adding, “He has the heart and mind of a leader.”

Trump was newly married when he bragged on tape about trying to have sex with married women and groping others without permission.

Mrs. Trump says she “hopes people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world.”