LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The contractor whose sexual harassment claim against former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief Mark Hurd led to Hurd's departure from the company said Sunday that she was unhappy about how the incident had played out.


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Jodie Fisher, pictured in a publicity photograph for NBC's "Age of Love" television program.

"I was surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this. That was never my intention," said Jodie Fisher, identified in a statement from her attorney as the female contractor who recently settled a sexual harassment claim against then HP /quotes/comstock/13*!hpq/quotes/nls/hpq (HPQ 40.45, +0.31, +0.77%) chairman and chief executive.

"Mark and I never had an affair or intimate sexual relationship. I first met Mark in 2007 when I interviewed for a contractor job at the company," Fisher was quoted as saying in the statement.

"I have resolved my claim with Mark privately, without litigation, and I do not intend to comment on it further. ... I wish Mark, his family and HP the best," Fisher said.