No one had told me. I went and got this oral history and started reading these transcripts where My father describes why he got Divorced from my mom, who's 19, when she was pregnant with me. And he was 32. 32, 33. And he describes in there scandal, he said, in terms of the age differential. And that played obviously a profound role in my mom's life because she was looking for an adult. (15:25–15:31)
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Asserts that Gavin Newsom's father provided reasons for his divorce from Newsom's mother when she was 19 and pregnant.
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