By Daily Mail Reporters PUBLISHED: 08:45 EST, 22 July 2013 | UPDATED: 12:23 EST, 22 July 2013 Congressman Steve Cohen hit out at the media today for trying to make what he calls a 'personal tragedy' with the model he once thought was his daughter into an 'Anthony Weiner thing'. The 63-year-old also revealed this morning that even though Victoria Brink, 25, is not his biological  daughter, he still loves her and they still plan on having a relationship. 'I loved her and I love her now, everybody parses my words, "I loved her but now she's gone" but that's not true,' he said in an interview with Morning Joe.
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Congressman Steve Cohen, a Democrat, tweeted a message to 25-year-old model Victoria Brink in February that raised questions about the nature of their relationship
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He called her a 'beautiful girl' and said he loved her in the tweet
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Cohen claimed it was his daughter from a fling 26 years ago
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DNA test proved he was not the father
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They still have a close relationship
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Told CNN: 'She was my family, my only family'
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Last week, Victoria gave an interview about the events surrounding the identity of her real father, which Cohen explained this morning: 'On TV she was saying, "@placeholder is not my father, not my biological