Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul — who will soon take over for disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo — on Wednesday distanced herself from the outgoing chief executive, pledging not to foster a “toxic” environment as the state attorney general probe documented.

“I think it’s very clear that the governor and I have not been close — physically or otherwise — in terms of much time,” Hochul said during a press conference in Albany, where she made her first public appearance since Cuomo announced Tuesday that he will resign within two weeks.

Hochul insisted that in recent months she’s been “traveling the state” and doesn’t “spend much time” in Cuomo’s “presence or in the presence of many in the state Capitol.”

Hochul declared, “At the end of my term, whenever it ends, no one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment.”

Alongside the substantiation of 11 sexual harassment allegations, Attorney General Letitia James’ probe described Cuomo’s treatment of staff as “toxic” and “bullying.”

After Cuomo’s departure from the governor’s mansion, Hochul will become the first woman governor of New York State.

While in charge of the Empire State’s government, the 62-year-old former member of Congress pledged to “fight like hell” for New Yorkers to help the state stay healthy amid the COVID-19 pandemic — and to rebound from it. 

“It’s going to take all of us working together to keep our children safe, our teachers safe, and anyone who works in a school safe,” said Hochul. 

“Small businesses are just starting to bounce back into an uncertain world. We need to reassure them that they will be OK,” Hochul went on.

Workers, she said, are weighing if it’s safe enough to return to offices and factories as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads in the Empire State. 

“But I know New Yorkers,” she said. “They are hard-wired to persevere and to prevail. And the promise I made to all New Yorkers, right here and right now, I will fight like hell for you every single day, like I’ve always done and always will.”