“‘Anthony,’ I said, wanting to shake him through the phone, ‘if she loses this election, it will be because of you and me.’”

So writes Huma Abedin in her memoir Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, about the time FBI seized her then husband Anthony Weiner's laptop almost a fortnight before the US presidential elections in 2016.

The former Democratic congressman Weiner became embroiled in a "sexting" controversy when FBI discovered illicit messages he sent to an underage girl. It prompted then FBI director James Comey to reopen investigations into Clinton's emails.

The discovery of the messages would also lead to the dissolution of his marriage to Abedin, the daughter born to Indian father and Pakistani mother, both Fulbright scholars who migrated to the US.

“This man was going to ruin me, and now he was going to jeopardize HRC’s chances of winning the presidency, which would leave our country in the hands of someone dangerously unfit for office," she writes about Weiner.

Abedin worked for Clinton when she was the first lady, a senator, secretary of state, a contender for the Democratic presidential ticket and, finally, the Democratic nominee -- and writes about her relationship with her boss, her mentor, her friend.

She has been publicizing her memoir on American TV shows.

In her press talks she says she wants to take charge of how her story is told.

Abedin began working with HRC, as she refers to her, at the time of the Starr investigation into President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky in 1998. She recalls HRC then to be “a little tired looking” but “otherwise seemingly unperturbed by the testimony happening simultaneously two floors below.”

She also writes about a senator's unwarranted sexual advances on her but she doesn't name him.

"He plopped down to my right, put his left arm around my shoulder, and kissed me, pushing his tongue into my mouth, pressing me back on the sofa. I was so utterly shocked, I pushed him away. All I wanted was for the last ten seconds to be erased. He seemed genuinely surprised that I was rebuffing him and immediately apologized that he had ‘misread’ me all this time.”