For the first time since Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced their decision to end their near-three decade-old marriage, the 57-year-old philanthropist spoke about the breakup with CBS Morning.
After Gayle King brought up the affair, Bill, 66, admitted to following the divorce announcement, Melinda said that their split wasn’t due to a single instance. “I certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,” she said. “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.” Melinda admitted that she shed “a lot of tears for many days” over the breakup and that she spent “laying on the carpet, thinking, ‘How can this be?
How can I get up? How am I gonna move forward?’ And days I certainly was angry. That’s part of the grieving process. You’re grieving a loss of something you thought you had and thought you had for your lifetime.
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