Newsom and Guilfoyle wed in 2001 and divorced during his first term as San Francisco mayor in 2006.
“I would go through all the motions until the motions led me right up to the altar.”
“I had become quite skilled at repressing my feelings and Kimberly allowed me this emotional distance,” he wrote, adding that their divorce was “amicable.”
She later worked for Fox News (where Newsom theorized she “fell prey” to the culture) and let her MAGA flag fly. She served as an adviser to President Donald Trump and got engaged to and split from Donald Trump Jr. She is now the ambassador to Greece.
Newsom married Jennifer Siebel in 2008 and is in the conversation to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028.
In his single days as mayor, he wrote in the book that he didn’t behave “with discernment.”
“I thought of myself as a single guy who happened to be mayor,” Newsom wrote. “Had my head been on straight, I would have seen it was the other way around.”
“Young Man in a Hurry” is due out Feb. 24.