Former President Bill Clinton said he admitted having an extramarital affair to his wife during a private conversation in their bedroom.
“I went and sat on the bed and talked to her. I told her exactly what happened, when it happened. I said, ‘I feel terrible about it. We’ve been through quite a bit in the last few years.’ I said, ‘I have no defense. It’s inexcusable what I did,’” he said in a forthcoming documentary about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to the Daily Mail.
Bill Clinton had originally denied the relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky to his wife but had to come clean as he faced impeachment on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
“I was just devastated. I could not believe it. I was so personally just hurt, and, ‘I can’t believe this. I can’t believe you lied,’” Hillary Clinton said in the documentary.
Hillary Clinton told her husband that he needed to tell their 18-year-old daughter, Chelsea Clinton, what happened.
“She said, ‘You have to tell your daughter.’ She said, ‘That’s worse than me.’ So, I did that, which was awful,” he said.
The affair led the Clintons to see a marriage counselor. Hillary Clinton described the sessions as “painful, painful discussions.”
“Counseling was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, but it was necessary. She deserved it, Chelsea deserved it, and I needed it,” Bill Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton has previously said that staying in her marriage “was the gutsiest personal decision” she has ever made.
