Melinda Gates becomes open about her divorce from Bill Gates: 'You can't have intimacy without confidence' today news

The philanthropist Melinda Gates revealed that trust affairs led her to end her 27-year-old marriage to Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Melinda appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday (April 15) and reflects on the painful but essential decision to leave the technical billionaire. “I learned, you know, to have a reliable relationship – what I wanted in a marriage – both partners have to be honest with each other,” Melinda Gates said. “And if you can’t do that, you can’t have intimacy and you can’t have confidence. And in the end I had to go, ‘Melinda said further. Melinda goes out again when host Stephen Colbert asks if she sees someone new, Melinda smiles and confirms, ‘I’m’, blush before he added, ‘it was very good. It was pretty good. ‘ She did not reveal the identity of her current partner. The moment she asked a divorce in her new memoir, Melinda said, the New York Post reports, the moment she told Bill that she wanted a divorce during a trip to New Mexico in 2020. ‘Extensive’ negotiations with the most difficult negotiator of the world, Melinda, acknowledged that the divorce process was incredibly difficult. “Bill has a reputation for being one of the most difficult negotiators in the world,” she wrote according to the report. The couple eventually reached a private settlement and continued to work on their philanthropic foundation. The Gateses, who got married in 1994, share three children: Jennifer (28), Rory (25) and Phoebe, 22. First published: 16 Apr 2025, 01:44 am Ist