RFK Jr.'s Marriage Turmoil: Diaries & Divorce

0:00It's April 7th. You're listening to Entertainment and celebrity news today. AI-powered entertainment coverage. A new biography on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. dives deep into the rocky marriage between the current health secretary and his second wife, Mary, Richardson Kennedy. The book pulls from his private diaries and interviews to lay out her battles with depression, alcohol, and the tough road of their divorce. To her suicide in 2012, they tied the knot on April 15th, 1994, soon after he split from his first wife, Emily Black. Together they had four kids, Connor, Kyra, Aiden, and William. Kennedy filed for divorce in 2010, and just three days later, Mary got arrested for drunk driving, later pleading guilty to driving while. Impaired. Mary fought hard against the split, desperate to hold on to the family and custody of their children. Sources say she obsessed over Kennedy's old diaries, grappling with his history of affairs during their nearly 20 years together, all while, hitting AA meetings to get sober.

1:02Friends close to Kennedy reveal her death hit him hard, even as he started seeing his current wife, actress Cheryl Hines. They describe it as a lifelong burden that still weighs on him today. The book, RFK Jr., The Fallen Rise by Isabel Vincent, drops on April 14th, giving more layers to this Kennedy family chapter.