Gavin Newsoms ex-mistress admits she wet the bed on their first night together

Ruby Rippey, an ex-lover of Gavin Newson and at one time his close aide, admitted to a humiliating mistake she made during her first night in bed with him.Rippey, who was married to Newsom’s close friend and top aide at the time Alex Tourk, said she ended up with the then-mayor of San Francisco following a fellow aide’s wedding.The following morning, she woke up with her dress soaked.She had wet the bed following the drunken night.“I wake the next morning beside him, still dressed.
I am cold, almost shivering, and my dress—the one my mother warned me not to wear—is soaked from the waist down.I had passed out.
I had also wet the bed,” she wrote in a Vanity Fair essay.She then quickly left to return to her husband Tourk.“He is still asleep.
I find my clutch, gather my heels, and leave quickly, wanting to get back to Alex,” she wrote.Newsom later acknowledged the night, she wrote, by slipping a gold bracelet she had left in the hotel room onto her desk.“A few days later, back at work, my boss slips my gold bracelet onto my desk as he passes.A gift from my grandmother, left behind in the Napa hotel room.
He keeps walking.We pretend nothing has changed,” she writes.
“But everything has.” Their affair would go on until May 2006, when she checked herself into rehab.Rippey confessed to her husband in January of 2007, and Tourk confronted Newsom later that month.The then-San Francisco mayor, dating Jennifer Siebel Newsom at the time, called a bombshell press conference that same year, where he revealed details about the affair.“Everything you’ve heard and read is true,” he admitted.
Despite the revealing update, Newsom declined to share any additional details about the affair.“The governor acknowledged his role and publicly apologized for his conduct nearly two decades ago when he was still mayor,” his office stated, adding, “In the time since, he met his wife, started a family and has focused on serving Californians.“He addressed...