Making the rounds of morning television news shows Tuesday, Sharon Bialek was asked repeatedly about her motives in coming forward against the pizza business executive and Republican presidential hopeful years after the incident of sexual harassment that she alleges.

She said she was "embarrassed" by the incident and wanted to move on. Bialek said she had nothing to gain financially, and in fact wasn't even paying a fee to Gloria Allred, the nationally known attorney whose name has become synonymous with women's rights issues. And Bialek said she decided to go public at this time mostly because her 13-year-old son told her to.