Melinda Gates on ‘unbelievably painful’ Bill divorce: ‘I just couldn’t stay in that marriage’
divorce from Bill Gates.“I had some reasons I just couldn’t stay in that marriage anymore,” French Gates, 58, told Fortune Magazine. “But the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do.”“It’s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it,” she continued.Melinda and Bill, 66, married in 1994 and were together for 27 years before announcing their divorce in May 2021.