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“For so long I kept secrets and didn't want people to know that I was struggling … the minute I opened up and was honest with others and with myself was when I began to heal.”īuhle’s advice to other women going through the same turmoil? “Don’t keep it to yourself,” she said. “I think getting a better understanding of why I did the things I did helped me to get closure,” she said of writing the memoir. Now that her daughters are young adults – Naomi, 28, Finnegan, 23, and Maisy, 21 – Buhle said she’s looking forward to daughter Naomi getting married in November and focusing on healing. “So much of what I did was continue to get up and move forward, but I don’t take for granted that I’ll live to old age.” “Talk about changing your perspective, I mean as quickly as I was diagnosed did I think I can't believe I was upset about my divorce,” she told Pierre-Bravo. , and their 1-year-old daughter Naomi Biden. She learned she had stage 3 colon cancer. In the past, President Biden has spoken about the 1972 car accident that killed his first wife, Neilia Hunter. “I was a homemaker and a full-time mother and I loved it, but just because my husband was responsible for the finances shouldn't have meant that I wasn't aware or had a say in how we used and spent our money.” After the release of the memoir, Buhle had been asked if she had any knowledge of her ex-husband’s financial dealings, to which she said she had none.īut just as she was reclaiming her independence, Buhle hit another unexpected roadblock that same year. “What happened to my marriage, is common in many marriages, where you sort of divide responsibility,” she said. A representative for Biden previously told NBC News that all of his tax responsibilities to the IRS are now satisfied. Since the divorce, she’s built resilience by taking back her maiden name and becoming financially independent, while her ex-husband is the subject of a Department of Justice investigation into his finances and business affairs. “I may have been in a well-known family, but I know so many people who have gone through the same thing, and the gaslighting in my experience was a defense in order to continue using.”īut in hindsight, Buhle said she wished she could have realized his struggles were not about her. “I really fought the label of gaslighting … because of the shame that comes with it,” Buhle explained. When she confronted him about his relapses and indiscretions, she said she was often gaslighted. Hunter and Kathleen Biden arrive for an official dinner at the White House in 2012. Over the course of their marriage, Buhle’s memoir says that she discovered numerous infidelities her husband had with other women, including his sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, after his brother Beau’s death. “For anybody who's lived with an addict or loves an addict they'll understand how difficult it is, how painful it is to watch someone struggle with sobriety and how helpless you feel,” she said. Buhle acknowledged that writing the book, as well as talking to her family and friends about it, was the first step in her healing process after her divorce, something she said wished she had been more open about back then.