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'There was survivor's guilt': Gavin Newsom's wife reveals she killed her older sister in a tragic golf cart accident 41 years ago in Hawaii - as she discusses 'traumas' that shaped her life in new interview
Daily Mail ^ | 15 June 2023 | EMMA JAMES

Posted on 06/15/2023 12:28:32 PM PDT by CodeToad

Jennifer Siebel Newsom has opened up about the death of her older sister in Hawaii and revealed that she accidentally ran her over with a golf buggy.

Governor Gavin Newsom's wife admitted that days before her seventh birthday, she had been playing on the carts with several other children, including her sister Stacia, in Hawaii in 1981.

The second-eldest of five daughters, Siebel Newsom, 48, had been on a family vacation when the cart reversed and killed her sibling who she hadn't seen hiding behind her buggy.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, she wrapped her arms around herself as she told the story, expanding that she felt the need to push herself in all aspects of her life to make up for her sister's death.

'I felt the pressure to be perfect, to make my parents forget, by being two daughters instead of one,' she said.

'I'm sure there was survivor's guilt, and I'm sure, in my subconscious, it's like I have to make up for that loss.

'And I have to do something to improve other people's lives or have an impact, double my own, which is a little crazy. I don't use the word 'crazy.' But you know, it's aspirational.

'I realized that I'm really hard on myself. I realized that you can't blame a 6- [or] 7-year-old. You can't ask them to understand things.'

She also opened up about having her case against disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein dismissed in 2022.

Jurors could not reach a verdict, meaning that the disgraced movie mogul has been facing the possibility of a retrial.

She claimed Weinstein sexually assaulted her during a 2005 meeting – telling her: 'Relax, this is going to make you feel better.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Seems people in politics have nasty skeletons in their closets. Laura Bush, Prez Bush Jr's wife, killed her boyfriend by t-boning him at a rural intersection after breaking up with him.
1 posted on 06/15/2023 12:28:32 PM PDT by CodeToad
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Is this the beginning of Gavin Newsome’s presidential run?


2 posted on 06/15/2023 12:33:13 PM PDT by BullwinkleMoose
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That’s only the one we know about.

How many others are there?


3 posted on 06/15/2023 12:33:19 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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>>Is this the beginning of Gavin Newsome’s presidential run?

Clearly...they just want to get some the skeletons out of the closet before he announces.


4 posted on 06/15/2023 12:36:18 PM PDT by qwerty1234
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“That’s only the one we know about.”

Good point. Seems their evil knows no bounds.


5 posted on 06/15/2023 12:36:21 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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You know, as someone who rejects Gavin Newsom and all his works and all his empty promises... and was a critic of Jen Siebel Newsom when her casting-couch tales of Harvey Weinstein surfaced, even I’ve got to say that this story is heart-breaking. It musth have been a tremendous burden for a child to carry the weight of culpability for a sibling’s death. Tragic.


6 posted on 06/15/2023 12:36:23 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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Please, everyone, it’s between Newsom and Michelle Obama.
Biden will not be present by then.
With Robert Kennedy Jr. the wild card.

I would like to explore the idea of Ted Cruz for President if Donald Trump is also not present (May God protect him).


7 posted on 06/15/2023 12:36:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Wow. I’m sure she’ll get the same treatment as Mitt Romney and the dog on the car roof


8 posted on 06/15/2023 12:36:56 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Probably. Get all the worst skeletons out and rewrite the story so that there is a sympathetic interpretation. They become untouchable when the news hits widespread as to what really happened.


9 posted on 06/15/2023 12:37:41 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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Seems people in politics have nasty skeletons in their closets.

It compels them to detach from reality and escape into the fictional belief system of politics.

10 posted on 06/15/2023 12:37:42 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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She married a Crawley, so it’s kind of to be expected.


11 posted on 06/15/2023 12:38:03 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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Why does she bring it up? Total political move. No sympathy for her for that.


12 posted on 06/15/2023 12:40:31 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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That dog story was weird, and of course, the terrified exposed dog vomited and defecated over the car.


13 posted on 06/15/2023 12:41:55 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Caddyshack scene: if you want to be fired, it you want to be replaced by golf carts just keep it up.

https://www.facebook.com/MurrayBrosCaddyshack/videos/we-all-have-someone-in-our-family-who-could-use-a-good-talking-to-from-lou/1177476842452260/


14 posted on 06/15/2023 12:42:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Monarch.


15 posted on 06/15/2023 12:46:39 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus (Jesus, Rex Universalis)
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Is this the beginning of Gavin Newsome’s presidential run?

Timing would suggest so, get the bad news out before the announcement.

16 posted on 06/15/2023 12:51:04 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Sorry, the victim card has been played prior to
this admission of guilt. We would prefer to hear
Newsom rather than his wife; or will she be co-President
as the Pantsuit aspired to be.


17 posted on 06/15/2023 12:51:47 PM PDT by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document unlike any other.)
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Any guilt on killing California let me know.


18 posted on 06/15/2023 12:52:04 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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"accidentally"
19 posted on 06/15/2023 12:57:30 PM PDT by Rebel_Ace (Let's go Brandon!)
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That remark about Bush is really quite tendentious.

These are tragic events that can happen to ANYBODY. Be glad you didn’t make a mistake like this today, and pray that you don’t make one tomorrow.


20 posted on 06/15/2023 12:59:27 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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