Sarah Palin.Photo: Pete Marovich/Getty Images
Sarah Palinis getting personal about herdivorce from ex Toddin 2020 after three decades of marriage — and her newfound relationship with retired New York Rangers player,Ron Duguay.
In a new interview withThe New York Post, 58-year-old Palin described the divorce as “earth-shattering.”
“It was the most earth-shattering, bizarre thing I could have ever imagined and it kind of remains so,” she told thePost.
Palin said in a2019 interviewthat she had learned her husband was seeking a divorce via an email from his attorney. The two share five children.
The former couple has seemingly moved on, however, with Palin telling thePostTodd now “spends his time with his girlfriend whom he’s had for some time now.”
The former Republican vice presidential nominee, meanwhile, has her own new relationship with 64-year-old Duguay, who was previously married to supermodel Kim Alexis.
Palin told thePostthat that the relationship was sparked when she called Duguay, an old friend, to seek advice abouther defamation trial againstThe New York Times. (She sued the paper for libl, over a past editorial that falsely linked her political group’s statements to a mass shooting.)
While the suit was ultimately dismissed (a federal judge said Palin failed to prove theTimesacted with “actual malice”), her relationship with Duguay — which she described to thePostas “safe and comfortable” — blossomed.
Amid the trial, Duguay acted as something of a New York guide, she added. “On my free time, he would walk all over New York and he would show me what he and the Rangers did back in the day, or at least where they did it.”
From left: Ron Duguay and Sarah Palin arriving to her defamation trial againstThe New York Times.J Mayer/Shutterstock
Elsewhere in the interview, Palin told thePost: “Ron is the first person that I’ve ever even talked to about a lot of this personal stuff. So it’s been helpful and refreshing to have Ron to talk to about not just politics, because he’s got more common sense in his little finger than the collective in DC, but just about life.”
Duguay has also been along for the ride for Palin’s latest venture: a run for Congress.
Speaking to the Post, Palin said Duguay — who she called “really handsome” — was with her in Alaska while she worked on the campaign: “He came to help me get my yard and property in order because he knows how busy I am with bustling down the campaign.”
This is Palin’s first bid for office since she left politics in 2009 when she resigned as governor of Alaska; she was previously the mayor of Wasilla. She publicly weighed a run for president in 2012 but decided against it.
source: people.com
