“She is very honest. She would not make anything up,” her father Chester Bialek, 85, told the Daily News.
Bialek, a 50-year-old Chicagoan, only came forward with her tale of being groped by Herman Cain because she felt it was her duty — not some publicity or political stunt.
“She’s a conservative, just like me. To be honest, this dazzled me. I had no idea she was even in New York,” he said.
“She would not lie.”
Bialek’s fiancé, Mark Harwood, told WBBM radio she is has a “good heart.”
“My heart of heart says the reason she’s come forward is to be the voice of these other ladies (and to) vindicate herself a little bit,” said Harwood, who has been with Bialek for four years — and her fiancé for the past year.
Bialek’s celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, said Bialek has been a full-time homemaker for the past two years, doting on her 13-year-old son.
Bialek met Cain through her former job with the National Restaurant Association’s education foundation, and sought his help in July 1997 after losing her position.
Bialek said all she got for her networking efforts was a unwanted sexual advance, and instead settled into a five-year stint in the marketing department for WGN Radio, followed by three years at CBS Radio.
Before landing at the NRA’s education foundation, Bialek hosted a cooking show for nearly a decade, worked for Revlon as an account manager and in corporate development for the Easter Seals Society.
“She’s had a lot of jobs, and some problems, but I don’t want to get too personal,” her dad said.
Bialek twice filed for bankruptcy protection, in 1991 and in 2001, court records show.
Allred said Bialek could have sold her story, but chose not to.