Recently,Hunter Bidenhas been in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Those in the know are aware that Biden used to be an addict.
He also used to be married to Kathleen Buhle.
His first marriage ended in shambles largely thanks to his addiction.
Biden and Buhle met in 1992 and tied the knot in 1993.
By 2017, they were getting divorced after being separated for two years.
The couple had three daughters, and in the beginning, they were madly in love.
“He treated me in a way I hadn’t been treated before,” Buhle toldCBS News.
Read on for a look at Biden’s marriage, and where it all went wrong.
“Honey, my boy tells me he loves you, so that means I love you too.
I love you,” Buhle recalled Biden telling her.
“I felt embarrassed,” Buhle writes in her book.
“Did this mean I was less important than my husband and my kids?
What I heard in his words: I was not truly a Biden,” she added.
“I liked the nice things.
And I didn’t want to think about the cost at which they were coming,” she added.
Kathleen Buhle knew her husband was in too deep.
Alcohol was not the only thing Biden was addicted to, however.
He also smoked crack.
His brother’s death sent Biden over the edge once more, and his addiction escalated.
“At that point, he was gone, when I found the crack pipe.
Beau had just died.
His addiction was as bad as it was,” Buhle said, adding, “It was escalating.
He was just in an awful place.”
In his memoir, Biden admitted that he smoked crack in 15-minute increments.
His dealer eventually moved in with him, and Biden learned to make his own crack.
It was no different for Hunter Biden.
Buhle toldMSNBCthat Biden would often gaslight her whenever she tried to get through to him about his addiction.
She now sees that there was no reason to be ashamed in fact, shame only made things worse.
But then Biden landed himself back in rehab in 2012.
Buhle was unsure how to handle the situation.
“He made me think that I must be crazy, when what I wanted from him was honesty.
But I didn’t know how to ask for it,” Buhle wrote in her book.
Buhle noticed the telltale signs of Biden’s second relapse by the time 2013 came around.
Speaking to Anthony Mason for CBS News, she spoke candidly about her husband’s extramarital affairs.
Well, don’t smoke crack."
It all started when Biden left his iPad lying around.
Buhle confronted him and he fessed up.
She learned that, by that time, Biden had slept with five different women.
All outside the country," Buhle wrote.
Biden said that he’d only done it while drunk, which didn’t make things any better.
Beau Biden’s widow, Hallie Biden, also advised against it.
So Buhle stayed, but this didn’t last for long.
She’d just lost her husband, and Biden had just lost his brother.
That was it for Buhle she was done, and she filed for divorce in 2016.
His father, unsure at first, eventually agreed.
Even though they were already divorced, that may not have made those headlines sting any less.
Another confirmed that Roberts got pregnant while working there.
Biden, however, claimed he never had sex with Roberts.
Buhle hasn’t really spoken out about the situation, and one can’t exactly blame her.
“I became adept at hiding the truth, at lying.
To the outside world.
He even toldCBS Newsthat he once spent 13 consecutive days smoking crack, drinking, and barely sleeping.
Of course, his brother’s death sent him into another addiction spiral that would last several years.
His ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, wrote her memoir “If We Break” for the same reasons.
Speaking toPeople, Buhle was open about how hard her divorce was.
“Writing this book has been incredibly healing for me,” she said.
And now that it’s out in the world, it’ll hopefully do the same for others.
