Emotional roller-coaster. Melinda Gates made a rare — and enlightening — comment about the challenges of working with Bill Gates amid their divorce.“The odd thing about [the] COVID [pandemic] is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do,” the 58-year-old philanthropist recalled during a recent interview with Fortune, which was published on Monday, October 3. “It’s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.”Melinda added: “I also kept working with the person I was moving away from, and I need to show up and be my best self every single day.
So even though I might be crying at 9 a.m. and then have to be on a videoconference at 10 a.m. with the person I’m leaving, I have to show up and be my best.
And I learned as a leader that I could do it.”The twosome were married for nearly 30 years before announcing in May 2021 that they were going their separate ways. “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” they wrote in a joint statement at the time. “Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives.”The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation cofounders explained: “We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.”As the pair’s breakup made headlines, a Wall Street Journal report alleged that Bill had an affair with a Microsoft employee starting in 2000.
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