Hillary Clinton believes her husband Bill Clinton is addicted to sex because of the abuse his mother subjected him to, according to a revealing memoir to be released next month.
During a 1999 interview with journalist Lucinda Franks, Hillary Clinton said the mother of her then President husband was a "doozy" and wreaked havoc upon her son that later caused him to become a sex addict, according to excerpts of the book obtained by the New York Daily News.
"He was abused," Hillary said of Bill's mother, Virginia Kelley, according to Franks. "When a mother does what she does, it affects you forever."
Hillary made the comments during an interview a year after news of the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, which President Clinton was impeached for. Franks, a Pulitzer-prize winner, admitted to leaving out parts of the interview when she published the story in a 1999 issue of the now-defunct Talk magazine.
In her memoir "Timeless: Love, Morgenthau and Me," Franks said the former First Lady never specified exactly what Bill's mother did to him.
"I am not going into it, but I'll say that when this happens in children, it scars you," Hillary said according to Franks. "You keep looking in the wrong places for the parent who abused you."
Hillary said in the original Talk article that as a child Bill also witnessed the hostile relationship between his mother and grandmother, Edith Cassidy, the Daily News reported.
"There was terrible conflict between his mother and grandmother," Franks recalls Hillary saying. "A psychologist once told me that for a boy, being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation.
"There is always a desire to please each one," Hillary said.
The Clintons did not immediately respond to the newspaper's request for comment.
