Aide involved in affair with Gavin Newsom in 2005 speaks out: 'Resentment is a luxury I can't afford'

Ruby Rippey has published a first-person essay in Vanity Fair providing the most intimate description to date of her 2005 affair with then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Rippey states that resentment is a luxury she cannot afford. She further reveals that Kamala Harris, who served as the San Francisco District Attorney during that period, provided her with crucial counsel following the scandal. This account breaks her silence regarding the relationship after twenty years.