Newt Gingrich asked for an "open marriage," his ex-wife says in a new interview.
Speaking with ABC News, Marianne Gingrich says that her then-hu*****and made the request as he disclosed his six-year affair with a congressional staffer.
"I said to him, 'We've been married a long time.' And he said, 'Yes, but you want me all to yourself,' " Marianne Gingrich told the network.
She said her hu*****and responded that the other woman "doesn't care what I do."
"He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused," she said. "That is not a marriage."
The other woman was Callista Bisek, who is now married to the GOP presidential hopeful.
According to excerpts released by ABC News, Marianne Gingrich describes the "shock" of learning of her hu*****and's infidelity, which came at the same time he was condemning then-President Bill Clinton for his affair with a White Houseintern.
Gingrich moved to divorce her, she said, just after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
"He also was advised by the doctor when I was sitting there that I was not to be under stress. He knew," she said.
