(PatriotNews.net) – Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband to Vice President Kamala Harris, admitted on Saturday to an affair during his first marriage after a report from the Daily Mail revealed that he got his children’s nanny pregnant.
“During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times because of my actions,” Emhoff said in a statement to CNN about his first wife, Kerstin Emhoff. “I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side.”
Emhoff did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comments but gave the statement to CNN shortly after the Daily Mail story broke.
Emhoff and his first wife were married from 1992 to 2009, and they have two adult children—Cole, 29, and Ella, 25. They co-parented with stepmom Harris. The affair reportedly ended the marriage. The Daily Mail stated that the nanny, also a teacher at Emhoff’s children’s school, did not keep the baby, though it’s unclear what happened to the baby or if Emhoff has ever been involved in the child’s life.
When their marriage ended in 2009, Emhoff was an entertainment lawyer, and his wife was a movie producer. Sources told the Daily Mail that the pregnant nanny had to leave her job as a teacher at The Willows, an elite private elementary school in Culver City, California, where she had also taught the Emhoff children.
Harris met Emhoff in 2013 while serving as California attorney general, and they married in 2014. Harris knew about the affair before they married, and the Biden 2020 campaign knew about it when vetting her for Biden’s vice presidential pick, according to CNN.
“Doug and I decided to end our marriage for various reasons, many years ago,” Kerstin Emhoff said in a statement to CNN. He is a great father to our kids, continues to be a great friend to me, and I am really proud of the warm and supportive blended family Doug, Kamala, and I have built together.
Emhoff is often seen with Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on the campaign trail.
