Patrick Clancy said ex-wife Lindsay never asked for forgiveness for killing their 3 kids but he gave it to her anyway

Patrick Clancy revealed in a heart-wrenching “60 Minutes” interview that his ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, never asked for his forgiveness after she strangled their three kids — but he “gave it to her” anyway.“Has she ever asked for your forgiveness?” CBS correspondent Ross Douthat asked Patrick Clancy Sunday during his first sit-down interview since her mistrial earlier this month.“No.But I gave it to her,” Patrick Clancy responded.

Lindsay Clancy strangled the couple’s three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan, with exercise bands in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023 before attempting suicide.To the public’s shock, Patrick Clancy almost immediately shared that he forgave his wife for killing their sons and daughter.“I saw headlines that said, you know, ‘Killer Mom,’ and ‘Baby Murderer,’ ‘Monster.’ And none of ’em were accurate — I believe that it was her mental illness that caused that.

So I shared those words,” he recalled.“And I think when it comes to forgiveness, I also felt that if I didn’t get there, I would be eaten up inside forever,” the grieving dad said.Patrick Clancy described watching Lindsay Clancy’s mental state quickly deteriorate starting in fall of 2022, while baby Callan was 5 months old.“It was October and — she went a few nights without sleeping,” he told Douthat.Lindsay Clancy’s mental health soon spiraled, leading to repeated emergency room visits and admitting herself into a program for postpartum depression.

Despite being prescribed a slew of prescription drugs, she continued to get worse.“I think December.

December was — it was a big struggle for her — just a huge lack of sleep, deep, deep depression, intrusive thoughts, and — at the end of that month she went to the hospital,” Patrick Clancy said of his then wife’s lowest point.“I didn’t know how to manage a postpartum illness.I think mental illness has this ability ...