WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) expressed dismay at evidence that a bikini model is not his daughter.

“I was stunned and dismayed when DNA tests disproved what Victoria and I believed about our relationship,” Cohen said in a statement June 19, after DNA tests organized by CNN showed that Victoria Brink was not his daughter. “I still love Victoria, hold dear the time I have shared with her, and hope to continue to be a part of her life.”

Cohen’s revelation of his belief that Brink was his daughter came in February, after he sent her Twitter account loving messages while he was attending President Obama’s State of the Union address.

Cohen deleted the tweets, but reporters were already questioning the relationship between the two, who are both not married.

Cohen then revealed that Brink’s mother, who had divorced her husband a year after Brink’s birth in 1988, had told him four years ago that he was Brink’s father.

Cohen and Brink’s mother, Cynthia White Sinatra, knew each other at the time; it is not clear in what capacity.

Cohen then contacted Brink and they became close; she accompanied him to last year’s White House Christmas party.

CNN sought DNA tests from all three parties: Cohen, Brink, and the man who had believed he was her father, John Brink.

The tests proved conclusively that John Brink was indeed Victoria Brink’s father.