Blame it on the nasty lawyer.
C-word flak leads Hoffman to tears: "University of Colorado President Betsy Hoffman broke down and cried this week while explaining her remark about how a pejorative word referring to the female anatomy could be used as a term of endearment."

"According to the newspaper, Hoffman said, 'I was immediately sorry.' She said that the lawyer 'kept pushing me. He was very nasty.'

'I knew as soon as I said it that it would come out in the papers,' Hoffman told the Herald. 'I should have said, 'Read Chaucer's The Miller's Tale. '

About that time, Hoffman began to cry."