Gayle King has opened up about one of the hardest experiences in her life in a recent podcast, when she discovered that her ex-husband, William Bumpus, had cheated on her with her close friend. The longtime CBS Mornings anchor eventually ended that marriage in 1993.
Gayle King shares how she caught her now ex-husband cheating with a close friend
In an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast with Alex Cooper on May 27, the 71-year-old TV personality recalled catching her ex cheating with her friend in 1990. She said at the 30:36 mark, “She was married. We were married. We both had two kids. Our kids were friends. The spouses were friends.”
King shared the details of that day and said that she had driven to catch a flight, but it was canceled, so she ended up returning home unexpectedly. She said, “The alarm was set, which I thought, ‘That’s strange, because you’re in here by yourself. You’re a big a**, grown a** man. He never sets the alarm. And next thing I know, he comes flying out of the room, and he’s got a towel on.”
Bumpus, a former Connecticut Assistant Attorney General, told her, “There’s somebody in the house.” However, she didn’t believe him. She described that she got down, and “there she is cowering behind the door in my towel. It was a nice bath sheet.”
“I was thinking, ‘The kids are here, I don’t want anybody to know. That was my main thought, ‘I don’t want anybody to know.’ That would not happen to me today,” she said, and further expressed, “I kept thinking, ‘I don’t want it to be a scene,’ because they’re little, they know this person. My main thing was how do I, which is what I do about most things, how do I handle this situation in this moment.”
Talking about her marriage, which lasted from 1982 to 1993, King said she was happy. “You know how they say the wife always knows? I swear to God I did not. I did not.”
Years after their divorce, in 2016, her former husband issued a public apology to King for his infidelity during their marriage. He said in a statement to Page Six, “I have been haunted by this life-altering choice. Though I have dealt with this privately . . . I publicly apologize for the major transgression that dramatically changed all of our lives.”
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Originally reported by Meenakshi Sengupta on Mandatory
