Desiree Rogers is speaking up about the State Dinner for the first time and wants to set the record straight.
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"It's wrong, " Rogers said. "Everyone is saying the same thing, and it's wrong."
Rogers was not in a position to publicly defend herself in the midst of the media firestorm that followed, and the White House did not let her testify at a congressional hearing on the matter.
Some, including White House adviser David Axelrod, a fellow Chicagoan, rose to her defense at the time. However, Rogers said, "it got lost in the Washington tidal wave."
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