Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates mirrored on her "journey of therapeutic" following her painful and high-profile divorce from Microsoft co-founder Invoice Gates in an unique interview with "CBS Mornings" anchor Gayle King.
Melinda and Invoice had been married for 27 years earlier than saying their break up final Could. French Gates instructed King that she shed "quite a lot of tears for a lot of days," and recalled mendacity on the carpet pondering, "How can this be? How can I rise up? How am I gonna transfer ahead?"
She mentioned there have been days that she was indignant following the break up. "That is a part of the grieving course of," she mentioned. "You are grieving a lack of one thing you thought you had and thought you had on your lifetime."
"I imply, that is painful stuff," she continued. "And on the finish of the day although, I began on this journey of therapeutic, and I really feel like I am beginning to get to the opposite aspect. And I do really feel like I am turning a web page within the chapter now. I imply, it is 2022 and I am truly actually enthusiastic about what's to return and life forward for me."
King additionally requested French Gates concerning the revelation that her husband had an affair again in 2000.
"I definitely imagine in forgiveness, so I assumed we had labored via a few of that," French Gates mentioned. "It wasn't one second or one particular factor that occurred. There simply got here a time limit the place there was sufficient there that I spotted it simply wasn't wholesome, and I could not belief what we had."
Watch extra of King's unique, wide-ranging interview with French Gates Thursday on "CBS Mornings."