Melinda Gates has responded to her ex-husband Invoice Gates’s feedback about their divorce.
Earlier this yr, the Microsoft founder named his divorce from Melinda after 27 years as “the error he most regrets.”
In an interview with Elle for its 2025 Girls of Affect concern printed on Monday, Melinda was requested about his remarks.
“You’ve clearly Googled greater than I’ve,” she instructed the publication, which famous that she rolled her eyes on the query. “Look, divorces are painful, and it’s not one thing I would need on any household.”
Throughout his interview with The Occasions earlier this yr, Invoice mentioned that the “high of the listing” by way of his greatest errors was his divorce. “There are others, however none that matter,” he mentioned. “The divorce factor was depressing for me and Melinda for at the least two years.”
Nonetheless, Invoice mentioned that he and his ex have stayed on good phrases, and “see one another” typically.
“We’ve three youngsters and two grandchildren so there are household occasions. The children are doing properly. They’ve good values,” he defined. The couple tied the knot in 1994. Their three youngsters are actually adults: Jennifer, 28, Rory, 25, and Phoebe, 22.
He didn’t go into any particulars about what triggered the divorce within the interview, although he admitted in 2021 that he had an affair with an worker in the course of the marriage.
Asserting their separation on Might 3, 2021, Invoice and Melinda mentioned in a joint assertion: “During the last 27 years, we’ve got raised three unbelievable youngsters and constructed a basis that works all around the world to allow all folks to steer wholesome, productive lives.
“We proceed to share a perception in that mission and can proceed our work collectively on the basis, however we now not consider we are able to develop collectively as a pair on this subsequent part of our lives.”
Melinda beforehand spoke about her relationship with Invoice in June 2024, one month after she exited the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis.
“It gave us the privateness to do what wanted to be performed in personal,” she mentioned throughout an interview with Time journal about going via the cut up in the course of the pandemic. “You realize, I separated first earlier than I made the complete choice a few divorce. And to have the ability to try this in personal whereas I’m nonetheless making an attempt to handle the youngsters, whereas nonetheless guaranteeing choices about the way you’re going to disentangle your life — thank God.”
She acknowledged that when her cut up occurred, each her work with the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis and her household have been on her thoughts.
“I believed lots about my three youngsters,” she mentioned. “However I actually thought concerning the impact on the muse. These are the three greatest buckets: me, the youngsters, and the muse. And I needed to be sure that once we got here via it to the opposite facet — when I got here via it on my facet — all of these items have been intact.”
