A former contestant on Donald Trump’s reality television show “The Apprentice” spoke out on Friday to accuse the Republican presidential nominee of sexually harassing her when she sought his help after her time on his show.

Summer Zervos, who laid out her allegations at a tearful press conference with attorney Gloria Allred on Friday, said Trump pursued unwanted sexual advances toward her when she met with him at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles to discuss employment opportunities in 2007.

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Zervos said she had first met Trump when she was a candidate on the fifth season of “The Apprentice” and later reached out to him for career advice, with the hope of working for the Trump Organization.

She met with him in his New York office, Zervos said, when he kissed her unexpectedly multiple times on the lips, and he later suggested meeting in Los Angeles to discuss her employment. At the hotel, Zervos alleges, Trump attempted to make a sexual advance on her, and she rebuffed him. After the encounter, Zervos said, she still sought employment with the Trump Organization, and believed she was not offered a job there because she had denied his advances.

Zervos is one of several women who have come forward this week to accuse Trump of unwanted sexual advances, in some cases decades ago. One woman, whose claims were reported in The New York Times on Wednesday evening, said Trump groped her on a flight in the early 1980s; some others said that he forced kisses on them without their permission.

Allred is a feminist civil rights lawyer known for representing women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault, among other high-profile cases. She told POLITICO on Thursday that she would be open to representing women with accusations against Trump.

The string of allegations, which Trump has denied, follow last week’s release of bombshell audio and video footage that showed him bragging about some of the actions of which he is now accused. Because of his celebrity, Trump boasted in the 2005 clip, he could get away with groping women and kissing them without asking.

Trump has flatly denied that he ever engaged in the behavior described in the recording, apologizing for the comments but dismissing them as “locker room talk.”

Allred is a public supporter of Hillary Clinton and also an outspoken critic of Trump. Earlier this week, Allred called on the producer of “The Apprentice” to release footage from the program in light of the 2005 tape, which Allred charged revealed the “ugly truth of Donald Trump”: that “he is using his celebrity as a blank check for sexual assault.”

Many of the women who have come forward, including Zervos, said that the emergence of the 2005 tape and Trump’s response to it at Sunday night’s second presidential debate prompted them to speak publicly about their experiences for the first time. On Sunday, questioned by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Trump said he had never groped women, as he had suggested in the tape, and said he has the utmost respect for them.

The Trump campaign has pushed back aggressively on the claims, alleging that the news media and Hillary Clinton’s campaign are conspiring against his election and accusing the women of speaking out of lying in search of publicity or for political reasons.