Jenny Sanford, the estranged wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, told Barbara Walters in an ABC interview that her husband insisted they take the fidelity clause out of their marriage vows.
“It bothered me to some extent, but … we were very young, we were in love,” she said. “I questioned it, but I got past it … along with other doubts that I had.”
She called the marriage a “leap of faith.”
The interview will be aired this Friday on 20/20, the day her book is set to be released. She announced she was filing for divorce in December.
Mark Sanford was embroiled in a scandal last year after he admitted to visiting a lover in Argentina, after he disappeared from the state and telling his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.
