Jennifer Arcuri tells of ‘four-year affair’ with ‘cowardly’ Boris Johnson

American businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri spoke of her four-year affair with British prime minister Boris Johnson between 2012 and 2016, calling him 'cowardly.'

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror, Arcuri mentioned that they shared a “physical and intellectual attraction” after meeting when she was a student in 2011 and he the mayor of London.

At that time, Johnson was married to lawyer Marina Wheeler and they had four children.

“We were in an intimate relationship for four years,” Arcuri told the tabloid. “I loved him, and with good cause. But the man I thought I knew doesn’t exist anymore.”

“He’d turn the whole room into a bunch of howling schoolgirls," she said, remembering their first meeting at a tech event in 2011.

The couple met again in spring 2012 when the businesswomen volunteered to work for his re-election campaign and they began texting.

Speaking of her upset at the PM's refusal to defend her when questions were raised about her presence on three high-level trade trips and receipt of £126,000 of taxpayer money in event sponsorships and grants, she stated that it was 'embarrassing.'

"He just took the most cowardly, wet noodle of approaches. This is who he is and it’s about time we recognized that,” she went on saying. “A great leader is charismatic, courageous and brave. None of these words I would use to describe Boris Johnson.”

The Greater London Authority is currently investigating whether Johnson breached the Nolan Principles of Public Life, the code of conduct by which the city mayor is expected to abide, by not confessing his affair with Arcuri.