EXCLUSIVE: 'I would pull over and park so I wouldn't go hit a tree.' Barbara Bush revealed how she fell into a deep depression and considered suicide while her husband George carried on decade-long affair with younger aide, explosive new bio reveals
Barbara Bush fell into a serious depression and contemplated suicide, the former first lady told author Susan Page for her new book The Matriarch Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
She said: 'I felt terrible. I really wasn't brave enough to do that, but that's why I pulled over, so I wouldn't do that, or I wouldn't run into another car'
The mother-of-six had just returned from a post in Beijing where her husband George H.W. served as chief of the US Liaison Office in 1974
Those close to Barbara speculated that her husband's suspected affair with aide Jennifer Fitzgerald contributed to her grief and suicidal depression
Their flirtation began in 1973, and a woman sharing a beach house in Maryland with Fitzgerald remembered Bush calling the house a least once a day
A member of Bush's inner circle said when Bush was first introduced to Fitzgerald by Dean Burch in the 1970s, he 'was simply captivated'
A lobbyist recalled that in 1984 an ambassador was asked to arrange for Bush and Fitzgerald to share a private cottage during an official visit to Geneva'
Page writes that Fitzgerald was 'not a striking beauty' but 'was flirty and solicitous and focused completely' on George
'Their surreptitious romance would last for more than a dozen years, inexplicable to those around him and impossible for anyone to manage', writes the author
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