Colin Powell insists 'there was no affair then and there is not one now' with Romanian diplomat

Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired U.S. Army General Colin Powell has denied having an affair with Romanian diplomat Corina Cretu.

Powell was forced to clarify his relationship with Cretu after a notorious hacker posted a link to their emails on his Facebook page.

'A traitor to the mother land!' the hacker wrote on Powell's Facebook wall, attaching a Google drive link to emails Powell received from Crutu from 2010 to 2011 through his personal AOL account.

He said the email messages made public by a hacker are those of 'a friendship that electronically became very personal and then back to normal,' the New York Daily News reports.

He also denied that he cheated on his wife of 50 years with a blond Romanian diplomat he met while he was U.S. Secretary of State.

In the emails Cretu called Powell "the love of her life" and left a clear impression she was writing about the twilight of a romance.

Powell said he met Cretu about 10 years ago while he was secretary of state under former President George W. Bush and she was the spokeswoman for the president of Romania.

He said that he had no affair with Cretu then and there is not one now, adding that he is in touch with her and continued to be "friends."

'Guccifer', whose identity remains a mystery, apparently hacked Powell's AOL account and uploaded 10 emails and photos that Cretu had sent him, the report added.