[David]

(Michelle said) His own mother, she said at the beginning of her remarks, was “very young and very single when she had him.”

Think she means when she had him after she was abandoned when the kid was less than a year old and divorced the sucker.

She was the classic single mother--abandoned with a kid less than a year old; divorcing the father.

[SE Mom]

You’re likely right, both of you. Parsing is all.