Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who has resisted calls to step down amid a sexual harassment scandal — once offered one of his accusers insight into the Machiavellian mind.

“People in positions of power will never give up that power,” Cuomo allegedly told his then-executive assistant Charlotte Bennett, she recalled in a new excerpt from her bombshell CBS interview.

Cuomo made the remark during a two-hour conversation alone with Bennett at his pool house — presumably in the Executive Mansion — in January 2020, the former aide said in an extended cut of her sit-down with “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell.

He had been reviewing PowerPoint slides but the two began discussing the state’s Enough is Enough law to combat sexual assaults at college campuses, according to Bennett, who is a sexual-assault survivor and said she advocated for sex-abuse victims while attending Hamilton College in upstate Clinton.

“He explained to me that it was something that was very near and dear to his heart. He was even teary at that point explaining how important it is that women feel safe,” Bennett told O’Donnell.

Yet, Bennett said, Cuomo tried to steer her away from such work.

“I remember his saying, ‘I don’t know if you should engage in this work professionally.’ He said people in positions of power will never give up that power and I will always be on the wrong side,” Bennett said.

The next extended conversation she said she had with Cuomo took place in his office in May 2020, when he appeared obsessed with his own TV ratings — even as his state reeled amid the mushrooming COVID-19 crisis.

“He asked why people weren’t watching his press conference and that he was losing viewers,” Bennett recalled. “I really think that he had this 15 minutes of international, national attention and that was starting to wane. He was lonely. He was anxious. He was angry. And really isolated.”

It was after a June 2020, meeting that Bennett has said she felt Cuomo, 63, was trying to proposition her for sex.

In previously released excerpts, she said Cuomo whined about being lonely and wanting a girlfriend. He offered that he would be fine dating someone older than 22.

”I think he was gauging my interest. I think he was trying to see what my response was generally. I think he was grooming,” she said.

Bennett said she was called into work the next day, a Saturday, and was alone with Cuomo in his office at one point.

“I was terrified. I was shaking,” she said. “I thought any moment something can happen and I have no power here.”

She said the governor initially wanted help with his iPhone and later repeated a request he had made previously — had she found him a girlfriend.

“Not yet,” she said she responded.

While Bennett was transferred to another job after reporting Cuomo’s actions to his chief of staff, she said he was still her boss and she couldn’t handle it.

”I was still working for him. And everyone around me is still concerned with him, still talking about him. The orbit, it’s still Andrew Cuomo,” she said.

She left state government in the fall.

After news about Bennett’s allegations broke a week ago, Cuomo released a statement saying “I never made advances toward Ms. Bennett nor did I ever intend to act in any way that was inappropriate.”

Cuomo apologized Wednesday saying, “I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable” and vowed not to resign.

But when asked to whom he was apologizing, Cuomo said, “the young woman who worked here, who said that I made her feel uncomfortable in the workplace.”

Former aide, Lindsey Boylan, 36, has also accused Cuomo of sexual harassment and a third woman, Anna Ruch, 33, who is not a state worker, claims that Cuomo grabbed her face and kissed her at 2019 wedding reception.

Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Queens Democrat and Cuomo critic, said the governor’s comment to Bennett about power was akin to “what he said this week at the press conference — that he’s not going to step down or resign which means the legislative body has a duty to now pursue impeachment.”

“This is a consistent pattern of abusive behavior and abuse of power that needs to be checked,” said Kim, who has been on the receiving end of a Cuomo tirade.

Bennett in her interview with O’Donnell dismissed Cuomo’s mea culpa as insincere.

“An apology sounds like ‘Charlotte Bennett, I am sorry for sexually harassing you. It was inappropriate and wrong,’ ” she told O’Donnell.

Portions of the interview aired on CBS Thursday and Friday before the network made public a 17-minute video of the sit down with the anchor.

Cuomo’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.