“They’re pretty private when it comes to their personal lives,” the friend said. They will get through it because these two people truly love one another.”Ī family friend in Nashville, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said he was “as surprised as everyone else.” A couple that had lived much of their lives in the public eye apparently had kept their heartbreak quiet.ĭonna Brazile, who ran Gore’s failed Democratic presidential campaign in 2000, said she was sending the couple “lots of loving thoughts and loads of prayers. If many Americans were disappointed, longtime friends seemed stunned and saddened. “This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration.” “We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate,” the e-mail said. Gore, 62, and his wife, 61, gave no hint of whatever hidden turmoil might have caused their union to crumble. The couple, who have four grown children, disclosed the news in a brief e-mail to friends and supporters.
They were the happy exceptions - high school sweethearts whose passionate romance led to a famously stable marriage in a capital perpetually rocked by tawdry scandals and sleazy affairs.īut on Tuesday, less than a month after they marked their 40th wedding anniversary, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, announced they were breaking up.
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