*Gayle King opened up about catching her ex-husband cheating during a candid conversation for Oprah’s Visionary Tour.
In a clip available on YouTube, King dishes about finding her ex in bed at home with another woman (who was also married) when she came home early from a trip with her kids.
As reported by MadameNoire, King was married to William Bumpus from 1982 to 1993 and they share two children together, Kirby, 33, and William Bumpus Jr., 32. She explained to Oprah that at one time she and William reconciled, only for her to later catch him in the acting of cheating.
“This was in the days before cell phones and the airline used call and say ‘Your flight is canceled but we can get you on a flight if you leave right now.’ So I threw the kids in the car, we rushed to the airport. I came home, actually a day early. He wasn’t expecting to see me and I wasn’t expecting to see her,” said King, via celebitchy.com. “She was married and they were friends of ours.”
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Oprah said she knew William was creepin’ but Gayle didn’t suspect a thing.
Gayle: You know how they tell you the wife always knows, the wife always suspects? I had no clue, whatsoever.
Oprah: Well, I did. The clue was when I was at your house and the phone rang and the woman on the other end asks to speak to her husband. And I happen to answer the phone and when her husband gets to the phone, he said, ‘Nobody’s there.’ Now, I ain’t stupid. Somebody was there and asked to speak to him in a very nice voice too.
Gayle: If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, it would have been explained away. They were both nude, by the way. So I even had to see that. But if they had been sitting there fully clothed, they could have said ‘We were talking.’ But it did have to be that graphic, that’s absolutely true. So I pay attention to all whispers at all times.
Oprah: It was a terrible moment and anybody who has been betrayed that way, in your own home, you know how that destroys your spirit. How it shatters you. So if anybody’s gonna cheat, don’t bring the person to your house. That is the most disrespectful thing you can do. But in spite of that, you were the kind of mother who never said anything negative around your children, who wanted their father to still be engaged in their life and made it possible for him to still be in their life. Why?
Gayle: Yes! I think you have to love your children more than you’re mad at him. Also nobody wants to hear, ‘You know what he did to me?’ Nobody really cares, except your closest friends and even they get tired of hearing it. As much as you dislike him, you have to find a way to navigate that. I’m happy to say that we can actually be friends and have a civil conversation. I’m very proud of that actually.
King previously opened up about this dark moment of her life in a 2016 Vanity Fair interview. When asked whom she most despises, Gayle said “I’m not a huge fan of the woman who I caught naked with my now ex-husband on June 24, 1990, at 9:16 p.m., but I don’t remember the details.”
Her ex also apologized for destroying their marriage, noting that “I have nothing but the utmost respect for Gayle and how she handled herself with grace. Despite the situation, she kept our children, as well as my relationship and involvement with them, as a clear priority.”
Scroll up and hear more from Gayle about the moment she caught her ex creeping with the other woman via the YouTube clip above.
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