Frenemies’ Albany book bash

IN her book “What’s Left Unsaid,” Melissa

DeRosa — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s former top lieutenant — recounts how she and upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik —a Donald Trump surrogate — met in 1995 as students at the Albany Academy for Girls, “the oldest all-girls prep day school in the country.”

The unlikely friendship ended over politics during the pandemic. But the book has driven another wedge between the pair, it seems.

As classmates, DeRosa, now 38, and Stefanik, 39, joined forces to run for student council to “form a new slate” and “cut a mutually beneficial deal.” The campaign would “set up the path to our individual political careers.”

After they both graduated from Ivy League schools and were working in DC, DeRosa writes, “People would ask how Elise and I could even speak to each other, given our political differences.”

But they “attended each other’s weddings, and went to one another for professional and personal advice.”

Now, they haven’t spoken in a few years. In the latest chapter for the frenemies, a source claimed to Page Six, “Stefanik’s mother stormed into a local independent bookstore in Albany to complain that the store was carrying” DeRosa’s tell-all.

A Stefanik adviser fired back, “This is false,” explaining that the elder Stefanik “purchased many books for Christmas for her 2-year-old grandson, Sam, and when finding out her last name, a store clerk tried to push her to buy a signed copy of Melissa DeRosa’s book. She refused because she does not support Cuomo’s crony criminals. She completed her purchase of the children’s books and returned to work.”

The same rep huffed DeRosa’s “now a failed author just like her disgraced boss Cuomo.”

A rep for DeRosa told us, “Melissa has no comment on any of Elise’s antics.” But when asked about the relationship at her book launch in the fall, DeRosa reportedly said, “It’s kind of tragic.”