KAthleen Buhle said she’s finally “in total control of my life” five years after the end of her 24-year marriage to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
The ex-wife of the man now at the center of an investigation surrounding his laptop said their marriage has been rocked by addiction, infidelity and shame, according to excerpts from her book If We Break, published by People on Wednesday became.
“My biggest shame was feeling like my identity wasn’t my own,” Buhle, 53, said according to the interview. “In writing this book, I realized that probably the heaviest weight was that I had to forgive myself for not believing in myself.”
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The memoir, due to go on sale June 14, details Buhle’s divorce from Hunter Biden after she found a crack pipe in an ashtray and the moment she broke up her ex-husband’s relationship with his former sister-in-law Hallie Biden discovered.
“I was shocked but not heartbroken. Heartbreak has already drained my self-esteem over the past year,” the book reads.
Buhle described Hunter Biden’s addiction.
“One Saturday morning while we were having friends over, Hunter walked into the kitchen looking like he hadn’t fallen asleep. I was making pancakes while I watched him pull a bottle of Jack Daniel’s out of the cupboard. ‘hunters! you are doing?’ I said, ‘It’s 10 o’clock!’ I don’t think he knew what time it was and he still seemed drunk. He laughed and put the bottle back. We all stared,” she wrote.
Buhle, who said she was constantly reminded that she wasn’t actually a Biden, threw out Hunter after coming to terms with his anger and admitting his ongoing cheating.
“I found a $10,000 credit card charge at a Whirlpool store in Los Angeles,” Buhle wrote. “I’ve found hundreds at liquor stores and strip clubs. He kept telling me he was sane and sober – and I was crazy. I kept telling him I was the only person actually trying to sober him up. It became my own kind of addiction. I didn’t want to admit to myself or anyone else how unhealthy our relationship had become, so my struggle was just another secret.”
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Buhle wrote that she finally reclaimed herself and took her maiden name back in 2019.
“I wasn’t a Biden anymore,” she wrote. “I had given up my crown and shield because I no longer needed them. Maybe I never had that.”
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