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Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s former lover, the ex-wife of top aide and close friend Alex Tourk, recalled an off-color comment the then-San Francisco mayor said to her in a Vanity Fair essay.<\/p>\n

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Ruby Rippey said she dined with Newsom and her husband at a Mexican restaurant in 2004 when the now-governor made an uncalled-for observation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey\u2014you look really good,\u201d Rippey said Newsom observed, \u201cYou\u2019ve lost all your pregnancy weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comment elicited an \u201cawkward laugh\u201d from the table. Rippey, a then-recovering alcoholic, said shortly after that she thirsted for her husband\u2019s margarita. <\/p>\n

Just months after, Rippey would have the first of her sexual encounters with Newsom in July 2005.<\/p>\n

Their affair would send shockwaves through California\u2019s political sphere. The scandal, when publicly revealed, nearly caused\u00a0Newsom\u2019s downfall\u00a0early in his political career.<\/p>\n

Newsom famously\u00a0confessed the ordeal\u00a0to the public in a stunning press conference. At the time of the affair, Rippey was married to Newsom\u2019s close friend and top aide Alex Tourk, and Newsom had yet to finalize his divorce from Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the U.S. Ambassador to Greece.<\/p>\n

Rippey would go on to describe her romance with Newsom as \u201cintoxicating.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt isn\u2019t love. It isn\u2019t romance. It\u2019s intoxication. The text message is a hit. The glance across the hallway, a hit. The risk floods my bloodstream. I walk down the corridors of City Hall\u2014my nude stilettos striking the marble floor. He looks at me, his gaze deliberate, newly curious. It feels like oxygen,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

The affair doesn\u2019t halt until Rippey delved into cocaine, she said, and an emergency room visit for her non-stop bleeding nose opens her family\u2019s eyes to the severity.<\/p>\n

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Her sister tells her that their father would pay for Rippey\u2019s rehab. She agrees to go, she said.<\/p>\n

Rippey\u2019s sister tells Newsom to stay away from her.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is unwell. She is getting help. Even if she reaches out to you, it is your responsibility to say no,\u201d her sister told him.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod bless, God bless.\u2026\u201d Newsom replied, according to Rippey.<\/p>\n

Newsom admits to the affair on television in February 2007 as he\u2019s dating now-first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Rippey stays silent as her \u201cphone floods with calls and texts from reporters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some time later, she still declines any interviews with reporters and shot down characterizations that their interactions were nonconsensual.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was not coerced. I knew what I was doing,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

The Vanity Fair essay is penned as Newsom aspires to be a top presidential candidate in 2028.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also the first time Rippey has told her story in detail about the affair as Newsom\u2019s second gubernatorial term winds down later this year.<\/p>\n

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