Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a devout Catholic, had priests try to exorcise demons in her San Francisco home after a hammer attack on her husband Paul Pelosi, her daughter said.
Paul Pelosi’s skull was fractured in a home invasion in October and he continues to recover. David DePape, awaiting trial on attempted murder charges, reportedly told police he planned to kidnap and injure lawmakers because he was second in command to the president. But he was in Washington at the time.
“I think it’s very heavy on his soul,” Alexandra Pelosi told Maureen Dowd of the New York Times in a column published Saturday. “I think he felt guilty. I was the one who really broke him. During Thanksgiving, he had a priest come, try to exorcise the devil in the house and do a service.
The exact nature of the exorcism, a religious rite intended to ward off evil, was not revealed. Or even if it was an actual exorcism. Pelosi’s Washington office did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment early Tuesday.
Pelosi took ribbing from political opponents after her daughter’s revelations.
A member of the clergy at Pelosi’s local Roman Catholic parish said his staff did not participate in exorcisms at his home, the tabloid reported.
Pelosi and her husband were recently seen in the Broadway show “Leopoldstadt.”
“He’s been out a little bit because the doctor said he has to wait,” the MP said last weekend. “So again, one day at a time.”