Nicola Sturgeon has detailed a visit by Alex Salmond to her home in Glasgow April 2, 2018.
The First Minister is giving evidence today to a Holyrood committee investigating how the Scottish Government managed to botch its own internal complaints procedure, which cost the taxpayer £500,000.
Two women had raised complaints against Mr Salmond in 2018 dating to his time in the top job in Scottish politics and the government launched a probe.
Mr Salmond denied the allegations and insisted the complaints process was biased against him - a claim vindicated in the civil courts in January 2019.
The First Minister has accused Alex Salmond of "deeply inappropriate behaviour" towards one of the women who made allegations against the former SNP leader, the Daily Record reports.
Ms Sturgeon recalled to the inquiry her version of events when Salmond, accompanied his former chief of staff Geoff Aberdein and legal advisor Duncan Hamilton, visited her home.
She told MSPs: "Alex has claimed in his testimony to the committee that the meeting in my home on April 2 took place with a shared understanding on the part of all the participants - in other words, he turned up to the meeting believing I already knew everything.
"A brief account of what happened on April 2 suggests he did not assume full knowledge on my part in advance.
'When he arrived at my house he was insistent he speak to me entirely privately, away from his former chief of staff, Geoff Aberdein, and Duncan Hamilton, who was with him, and my chief of staff, who was with me.
"That would have seemed unnecessary had there been a shared understanding on the part of all of us. He then asked me to read a letter sent to him by the permanent secretary.
"This letter set out the fact that complaints of sexual harassment had been made against him by two individuals, and made clear these complaints were being investigated under the procedure adopted at the end of 2017, and it set out the details of what he was alleged to have done.
"Reading this letter is a moment in my life that I will never forget. And although he denies the allegations, he gave me his account of one of the incidents complained of, which he said he had apologised for at the time.
"What he described constituted, in my view, deeply inappropriate behaviour on his part. Perhaps another reason why that moment is strongly embedded in my mind.
"At the time he was showing me the letter and outlining his account, Geoff and Duncan were doing the same with my chief of staff. Again, this would seem unnecessary if she and I had known everything in advance."
Mr Salmond himself gave evidence to the inquiry on Friday February 26, when he claimed the Scottish Government hoped his criminal trial would "ride to the rescue" and prevent its unlawful investigation of him suffering a "cataclysmic" civil court defeat.
