Alphabet's chief legal officer David Drummond said he is 'far from perfect' in his response to an extramarital relationship he had with a former Googler (GOOG, GOOGL)

• Alphabet's chief legal officer David Drummond said he is "far from perfect," in a personal statement first reported by BuzzFeed News on Thursday. 
• Jennifer Blakely — the former paralegal on Drummond's team — personally spoke out for the first time yesterday in a Medium post, which alleged that chief legal exec fathered a son with her while he was married, abandoned her and abused her emotionally. 
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Alphabet's chief legal officer David Drummond said he is "far from perfect," in a personal statement first reported by BuzzFeed News on Thursday, but declined to apologize for an extramarital relationship he had with a subordinate at Google. 

Drummond, one of the highest paid executives at Google's parent company, acknowledged what he described as a "difficult break-up" but said that he had a "very different view" of some of the claims made public on Wednesday by Jennifer Blakely — a former paralegal on Drummond's team.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Blakely said that Alphabet's chief legal exec fathered a son with her while he was married and abused her emotionally. 

"The abuse of power didn't stop with being pushed out," she wrote, of having to leave her job at Google. "Afterwards I was pushed down, lest I got in the way of the behavior that had become even more oppressive and entitled."

Google has refused to comment on the matter, which involves allegations about one of the highest paid and most powerful executives at the company. "We don't have a statement on this to share," a Google spokesperson said in an email to Business Insider. "We've seen that Mr. Drummond has issued a personal statement, see here," Google said.

The company, which has been rocked by allegations that it protects "elite men" who have engaged in sexual misconduct, in some cases giving them huge payouts, declined to make Drummond available for an interview.

Drummond's statement on Thursday, which was tweeted out in-full by BuzzFeed News reporter Ryan Mac, calls into questions some of the claims raised by Blakely's recent account of their relationship. 

"Her account raises many claims about us and other people, including our son and my former wife," Drummond said in his statement, according to BuzzFeed. "As you would expect, there are two sides to all of the conversations and details Jennifer recounts, and I take a very different view about what happened. I have discussed these claims directly with Jennifer, and I addressed the details of our relationship with our employer at the time."

Specifically, Drummond says that besides Blakely, he has never "started" a relationship with anyone else at Google or Alphabet. According to Blakely's account from Wednesday, Drummond had multiple relationships with other colleagues at Google, including his "personal assistant" who Blakely claims moved into one of his homes.

The legal chief, however, said that "any suggestion otherwise," as to whether he had relationships with colleagues other than Blakely, "is simply untrue."

Still, Drummond said, he doesn't want to publicly go "back and forth about these personal matters."

In November, roughly 20,000 Google employees staged a walkout to protest the company's treatment of executives accused of misconduct and the lack of accountability at a company in which cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin control a majority of the voting power.

Here is Drummond's full statement, as given to Buzzfeed:

It's not a secret that Jennifer and I had a difficult break-up 10 years ago. I am far from perfect and I regret my part in that. 

Her account raises many claims about us and other people, including our son and my former wife. As you would expect there are two sides to all of the conversations and details Jennifer recounts, and I take a very different view about what happened. I have discussed these claims directly with Jennifer, and I addressed the details of our relationshiop wiht our employer at the time.

But I don want to address one claim that touches on professonal matters. Other than Jennifer, I never started a relationship with anyone else who was working at Google or Alphabet. Any suggestion otherwise is simply untrue.

I know Jennifer feels wrong and understand that she wants to speak out about it. But I wont' be getting in a public back and forther about these personal matters.

David Drummond

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