His Wife requested the divorce, they had talked about it BEFORE wife was in the hospital, the girls already knew about it.
“His Wife requested the divorce, they had talked about it BEFORE wife was in the hospital, the girls already knew about it.”
Of course. There is nothing in the salon.com article or in anything I have posted that contradicts that. But some people are pointing to Newt’s daughter’s “clarification” of the incident as evidence that nothing unseemly happened at the hospital. I beg to disagree, and Newt himself has said that he misbehaved at the hospital and deeply regrets the what happened there.
Acording to Newt, he is the one who wanted and asked for the divorce:
Brian Begley
: 11/29/11 14:50
That story wasn’t just made up. His ex-wife told it to a magazine and a newspaper separately (Mother Jones and the Washington Post). If I had to guess whether the wife got the story right 6 years later, or the next week or the daughter got it right 30 years later, I’d probably go with the wife.
Her quote to the Post:
“He can say that we had been talking about [a divorce] for 10 years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise,” says Jackie Gingrich, in a telephone interview from Carrollton. “He’s a great wordsmith … He walked out in the spring of 1980 and I returned to Georgia. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said Daddy is downstairs and could he come up? When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from the surgery … To say I gave up a lot for the marriage is the understatement of the year.”
Then there’s this quote from Gingrich:
Asked if, in fact, he handled the divorce as insensitively as portrayed, Gingrich responded: “All I can say is when you’ve been talking about divorce for 11 years and you’ve gone to a marriage counselor, and the other person doesn’t want the divorce, I’m not sure there is any sensitive way to handle it.”
That doesn’t sound like she requested the divorce.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/284360/cancer-hospital-story-mona-charen?page=1