<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654102357043,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07c3-d172-a563-4feb224a0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654102357043,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07c3-d172-a563-4feb224a0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_54102253", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1020809"} }); ","_id":"00000181-2004-de8b-afe9-f266bfaf0000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedKathleen Buhle said she finally has “total control over my life” five years after her 24-year marriage with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter ended.
The ex-wife of the man, who is now at the center of an investigation surrounding his laptop, said her marriage was one rocked by addiction, infidelity, and shame, according to excerpts from her book If We Break published Wednesday by People.
“My greatest shame was feeling like my identity was not my own,” Buhle, 53, said, according to the interview. “It was in writing this book that I realized probably the heaviest weight was that I first had to forgive myself for not believing in myself.”
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The memoir, which is set to go on sale June 14, details Buhle’s divorce with Hunter Biden after finding a crack pipe in an ashtray and the moment she discovered her ex-husband’s relationship with his former sister-in-law Hallie Biden.
“I was shocked, but not heartbroken. Heartbreak has already flatted my self-esteem that past year,” the book read.
Buhle detailed Hunter Biden’s addiction.
“One Saturday morning when we had friends visiting, Hunter walked into the kitchen looking as if he hadn’t gone to sleep. I was making pancakes as I watched him pull a bottle of Jack Daniel’s out of the cabinet. ‘Hunter! What are you doing?’ I said. ‘It’s 10 a.m.!’ 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 of not actually being a Biden, threw out Hunter after coming to terms with his loop of anger and admission to persistent cheating.
“I found a credit card charge for $10,000 at a hot tub store in Los Angeles,” Buhle wrote. “I found hundreds at liquor stores and strip clubs. The whole time, he told me he was healthy and sober — and I was crazy. I continually told him that I was the one person actually trying to get him sober. 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 one more secret.”
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Buhle wrote that she finally reclaimed herself in 2019 and took back her maiden name.
“I was no longer a Biden,” she wrote. “I’d handed in my crown and shield because I no longer needed them. Maybe I never had.”
