HUNTER Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle is breaking her silence with the release of her long-anticipated memoir and sit-down interview on Good Morning America.
Kathleen’s book, If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction and Healing, is scheduled to release Tuesday, June 14, and will be an intimate account of the pair’s over two-decade marriage.
In a teaser for the interview, Kathleen said, “This is not a story about who’s right and who’s right. This is my story.”
The memoir details the dissolution of her marriage with the son of President Joe Biden, who she wed in 1993.
The marriage produced three daughters: Naomi, 28, Finnegan, 23 and Maisy, 21.
While speaking to People, Kathleen revealed that she began writing the book after Beau had died of brain cancer in 2015 and “things didn’t make sense.”
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“I found it cathartic,” she said, adding that she eventually took a creative writing class at the Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC and found that her journaling could be turned into a memoir.
Kathleen writes that she kicked Hunter out of their home in 2015 after finding a crack pipe in their ashtray and said she learned of his affair with his brother’s widow, during a family therapy session with their children in November 2016.
According to an interview Hunter did with the New Yorker in 2019, Hunter said he began dating Hallie Biden after he was “recovering from a weeklong crack binge” in Los Angeles.
He said the two became close in 2016 after they bonded over Beau’s death during a trip to the Hamptons.
Hunter said the two began spending more time together as they were “sharing a very specific grief” because of Beau’s passing.
The President reportedly first learned of the relationship when the New York Post called his office asking for comment in 2017.
Biden said in a statement at the time: “We are all lucky that Hunter and Hallie found each other as they were putting their lives together again after such sadness.
“They have mine and Jill’s full and complete support and we are happy for them.”
She also claims that despite being married to Hunter at the time his father was the Vice President, she did not receive Secret Service protection.
Kathleen recalled a meeting in 2009 where an agent explained how “Hunter and the girls will all have a detail assigned to them. Two agents with them 24 hours a day.”
However, Kathlene would only be “picked up and included in any plan” if there was “any type of emergency.”
She said that she suddenly became embarrassed and wondered if she was “less important” than her husband and daughters.
“What I heard in his words: I was truly not a Biden.”
However, she described her relationship with the now-President as warm, writing that when they first met Biden had put “his hands on my cheeks and looked me in the eyes, his nose almost touching my own.”
Kathleen said that Biden had told her: “Honey, my boy tells me he loves you, so that means I love you too. Understand? I love you.”
Biden had introduced Kathleen as his daughter “everywhere we went” and described his dynamic with the family as “the sun around which we all revolved.”
Even five years later, Kathleen said the weight of her divorce had an effect on her relationship with the President and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.
“Divorce impacts the whole family – not just the couple, not just the kids. We were all really close and it was painful. It was hard for a long time.
“But what we share now, and we will share for the rest of our lives, is this love for my three daughters.”
Now, Kathleen said that she has forgiven Hunter, who has since remarried and is now the father of two-year-old Beau Jr.
“Anger is such a heavy weight to carry and I was in a lot of pain,” she said.
“There was a lot that happened that was very hard for me. And when I made the decision to divorce, I wanted to let go of all of that.
“My greatest shame was feeling like my identity was not my own. 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.”
The Sun has reached out to Hunter Biden’s reps for contact.
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Kathleen is working on her nonprofit women’s club, The House at 1229, and says she loves being financially independent as she does not receive alimony from Hunter.
“I have total control over my life now. I hope people see in my story the ability to start again.”
