Melinda French Gates opened up about her divorce fromBill Gates in a CBS interview.- "I realized it just wasn't healthy and I couldn't trust what we had," she said.
Melinda French Gates is opening up for the first time since her divorce from
French Gates sat down for $4, which will air fully on Thursday morning. In a preview of the interview, French Gates described what led up to her high-profile divorce, including revelations that Gates had had an affair in 2000.
"I certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that," French Gates 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."
She described feeling angry in the aftermath of their marriage ending and said that she was "grieving a loss of something ... you thought you had for your lifetime."
"I had a lot of tears for many days, days where I'm literally on the floor ... thinking, 'How can this be? How can I get up? How am I going to move forward?" she said.
French Gates and Gates $4 they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage. In the wake of their divorce becoming public, it was revealed that French Gates had been $4 after Gates' ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein came to light. Reports also described Gates as $4 during his tenure as Microsoft CEO.
Their divorce became finalized last August, after which French Gates joined the ranks of the world's wealthiest women. Her net worth currently hovers around $11 billion, according to $4.
French Gates' full interview with King will air Thursday morning on CBS.