Hillary Clinton has opened up about her ‘dark days’ with Bill in a new memoir but doesn’t mention Monica Lewinsky by name as the once-presidential hopeful admits that she stayed with the former president because she loved him.
Although the couple has been married for more than 40 years, Hillary acknowledged that is wasn’t all smooth sailing, it was revealed on Friday.
She said that there were times she was ‘deeply unsure about whether’ her marriage to Bill ‘could or should survive’, according to a leaked expert of her new memoir.
The 69-year-old described her time during the Monica Lewinsky scandal as her ‘dark days’ but abstained from adding details, quipping ‘you know all about them’.
The former presidential candidate also discusses her failed campaign in her explosive tell-all, What Happened, which will be out on September 12.
Hillary Clinton, 69, has opened up about her ‘dark days’ with her husband Bill Clinton in her new memoir, it was revealed on Friday
The once-presidential hopeful admits that she stayed with the former president because she loved him but doesn’t mention Monica Lewinsky (right) by name. She didn’t divulge details of the scandal, adding ‘you know all about them’
A leaked excerpt of the book, obtained by RadarOnline, reads: ‘We’ve certainly had dark days in our marriage. There were times I was deeply unsure about whether our marriage could or should survive.’
The memoir also reveals Hillary’s thoughts on her 2016 presidential run, including her thoughts on President Trump.
In another chapter of the book, Clinton explained what was going on in her head when Trump lurked behind her during a presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri.
‘It was incredibly uncomfortable he was literally breathing down my neck,’ Clinton said. ‘My skin crawled,’ she recalled.
Hillary noted that the October 2016 debate came just days after the release of a shock audio tape in which Trump was heard bragging about groping women.
CREEP IN THE BACK: In the first excerpt from her new book, Hillary Clinton tells what she was thinking when Donald Trump was hovering too close to her at the second presidential debate
Clinton steamed: ‘What would you do? Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren’t repeatedly invading your space? Or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly: “Back up, you creep, get away from me.”‘
Another excerpt tells how she almost fell victim to bad branding – and fresh embarrassment – as she created a new political organization in the aftermath of her election loss.
Hillary Clinton’s newest tome will hit bookshelves on September 12
While eventually settling on the name ‘Onward Together,’ Clinton’s original name for the group was ‘Our American Future,’ until a pal pointed out that the acronym for the group would be ‘OAF,’ a word for a rough or clumsy man.
‘Luckily, a friend of mine pointed out that the acronym of Our American Future would be OAF,’ Clinton wrote.
‘I imagined the headlines: “Hillary Clinton Lurches Out of the Woods: Here Comes OAF,”‘ she joked.
‘We needed a new name, stat!’ she recalled thinking.
‘After a quick brainstorm, we came up with a better option that combined my campaign slogan, “Stronger Together,” with “Onward!” the exhortation I’d been using to close personal notes for years. (What can I say? I’m a sentimentalist.)’ she noted.
Clinton, herself, will be speaking out, not just in the pages of the book, but on a 15-city book tour being called ‘Hillary Clinton Live.’
Tickets at some of the Canadian dates are going for $1,200 American dollars each.
While her first stop, in Washington, D.C. – at a venue that’s one block from President Trump’s hotel and two blocks from the White House – tickets sold out within minutes, with some prize seats now being sold on StubHub also for $1,200.
The memoir also reveals Hillary’s thoughts on her 2016 presidential run and moving forward