Nearly a year after announcing the end of her marriage to Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates is feeling like she’s “starting to get to the other side.” That’s what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair told “CBS Mornings'” Gayle King in a preview from their recent interview, which aired Wednesday.
During the sit-down, Gayle broached the topic of Bill’s extramarital affair, which his spokeswoman confirmed in a statement issued last May. “There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably,” Bill’s spokeswoman, Bridgitt Arnold, said in an emailed statement to The Washington Post at the time.
In court documents, the exes – who share three children – called their marriage “irretrievably broken.” A judge finalized their divorce in August 2021, three months after they announced their split in a joint statement. “I certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,” Melinda told Gayle. “It wasn’t one moment or one specific thing that happened.
There just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn’t healthy and I couldn’t trust what we had.” Responding to the perception that she “has it all,” the philanthropist recalled the times she cried and wondered how to go on. “I think it’s really important to say, look, I had a lot of tears for many days, I mean, days where I am literally laying on the floor and the carpet, you know, this close to me, thinking, ‘How can this be?
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