Hunter Biden on Sunday tried to explain why he dated his dead brother’s widow – but said he could understand why “people were confused” by the romance of raising their eyebrows.
The president’s son discussed the reaction to the revelations that he was dating his brother Beau Biden’s widow, Hallie Biden, in March 2017.
“I think people were confused and I understand that. I really do, ”he said in a session with CBS’s“ Sunday Morning ”program.
“For me, it is not difficult to explain because it arose from a really overwhelming pain that we both shared and we were together trying to do the right thing. And that pain turned into hope for a love that maybe could replace what we lost and it didn’t work out, ”he continued.
Hunter – who was still married to his ex-wife Kathleen at the time – said he and Hallie were “very lucky” that their family supported the unusual connection after Beau died of cancer in May 2015.
But others were not so understanding. Hunter revealed that he lost customers and businesses at that time.
“I made a lot of decisions that I probably shouldn’t have made,” said Hunter, who has long struggled with addiction and also revealed that he had searched carpets for anything that looked like crack..
“There was a lot more compassion and understanding for the people who knew me, but it was a horrible time.”
Hunter and Hallie split up later that year.
He has since remarried a South African woman named Melissa Cohen, just a week after they met.
Hunter appeared on the Sunday morning news to promote his new memories, “Beautiful Things”, which will be out on April 6.