Melinda Gates Opens Up About Her Traumatic Divorce From Bill Gates: 'Painful'

Melinda Gates is one of the most recognizable faces in business and social work. Together with her ex-husband, Bill Gates, she leads an organization of the same name: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.with which they have proposed to make millionaire donations and investments to “create a world in which each person has the opportunity to have a healthy and productive life”.

In parallel to its community contributions, The couple has also been the focus of their untimely separation after a marriage of 27 years and a family of three children. The suspicions hovered from the first day of the breakup; for several months both decided to remain silent. But, little by little, they have been opening up about what really happened.

‘I kept working with the person I was separating from’

Melinda, one of the referents of philanthropy, assured that she did not stop presiding over the foundation, despite the fact that her marriage had fallen apart.

“I needed to show and be better every day. (…) I learned that as a leader I could do it. That reminded me that the foundation called me to be the best, “she said in an interview for the specialized media ‘Fortune’.

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Therefore, she gave continuity to the programs that she had devised together with the one who since May 2021 became her ex-husband. Also, he decided to face the difficulties out of public ridicule and not refer to the subject.

“It was incredibly painful in multiple ways. The strange thing is that covid-19 gave me the privacy to do what I had to do, ”said the 57-year-old woman, whose fortune exceeds 6.2 billion dollars, according to Forbes magazine.

Therefore, she gave continuity to the programs that she had devised together with the one who since May 2021 became her ex-husband. In addition, she decided to face the difficulties outside of public ridicule and not refer to the subject.

“It was incredibly painful in multiple ways. The strange thing is that covid-19 gave me the privacy to do what I had to do, ”said the 57-year-old woman, whose fortune exceeds six billion dollars.according to ‘Forbes’ magazine.

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Was there infidelity?

Although Melinda has not mentioned it, Bill Gates was confronted in an interview about his behavior while he was married, as it has been said that he allegedly had affairs with workers from his technology company Microsoft.

– Were you unfaithful in your marriage? – they questioned him on the American program ‘Today’.

– I clearly made mistakes and I take responsibility. You know that last year was difficult, but we managed to get ahead -he commented with another expression on his face and after some stutters.

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As he pointed out, it caused pain and, therefore, he felt bad. “There are areas in which I am an expert, but in these types of subjects, I am not. I must be humble. I have no good advice for others, ”she sentenced.

Gates, at 66 years old and with a fortune of more than 100 billion dollars, is among the list of the wealthiest people on the planet. Share the ‘top 10’ with other personalities, such as Jeff Bezos, founder of the Amazon trading platform, and Elon Musk, owner of the electric car manufacturer Tesla.