Barbara Bush - Humiliated & Betrayed

Brazen George’s forbidden fling pushed her to brink of suicide

Heartbroken Barbara Bush was driven to despair — and nearly took her own life —after discovering her husband’s torrid affair with a young staffer, according to an explosive new biography.

After George H.W. Bush was tapped to lead the CIA in 1975, the future first lady “fell into darkness,” claims author Susan Page in her book The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty.

“Barbara Bush found herself falling into the worst personal crisis she had faced since daughter Robin had died more than two decades earlier,” writes Page. “Overwhelmed by pain and loneliness, she contemplated suicide.

“She would pull over to the side of the road until the impulse to plow into a tree or drive into the path of an oncoming car had passed.”