In 2022, Hillary Clinton said in her Apple TV+ series “Gutsy” that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, would have kept his affair with Monica Lewinsky to himself if it hadn’t made national news, via The Daily Mail. According to Hillary, he never would have told her. Perhaps that’s part of why Bill’s longtime aide Doug Band, who worked with him during his presidency and up through about 2020, made a stand. According to Vanity Fair, Band and Bill’s relationship never recovered after a confrontation about his marriage.
Gabriel Sherman, who interviewed Band for the VF piece, spoke to Yahoo about their conversation. “Band told Clinton that he believed he was allowing Chelsea to destroy Band’s reputation because, deep down, Clinton was guilty for the pain his infidelities had caused the family,” Sherman told the outlet. “Then Band said the unsayable: If Clinton wanted to have girlfriends, he should divorce Hillary and move on with his life. Band later told friends he said it was the honorable and right thing to do.”
Per VF, the longtime ties between Band and Bill were gone by 2015. Further, the outlet notes that in recent years, Bill has mostly gotten out of the spotlight. Of course, there may be several reasons for that, including his reported business ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
