Dr. Jill Biden is getting candid about the health of former President Joe Biden.
The 75-year-old Former President of the United States spoke oute on the latest episode of SiriusXM’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa.”
During the conversation, Jill spoke her mind about the loss of the White House’s East Wing, son Hunter Biden‘s addiction struggles, Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis, and the probability of a female President of the United States.
See highlights from the conversation inside…
On feeling heartbroken over the loss of the East Wing:
Jill: “I loved the East Wing. I think, when you went to the White House, that was where you would enter the White House. So I would see families come in, and they’d be so excited, and they’d be taking pictures. And then they’d walk down the hallway, and I put up pictures of art, of military kids.”
“Yes. And then we—”
Kelly: “You made it very interactive, right?”
Jill: “That was my whole point. I’m a teacher for 40 years, and I thought, ‘We can’t have just these pictures on the wall.’ People who come in need to hear FDR’s address on the radio. They need to feel the marble. They need to see pictures of people they identify with, like the first ladies, Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama, Laura Bush.”
“So when they come in, they say, ‘Oh, I know her. I recognize her.’ So I made it all interactive. And so when it was being torn down, people were sending me photos. Yeah. And I think you probably read in the book my description.”
“And it felt like a rare and precious animal that was just gutted, with its guts hanging out, and it was heartbreaking.”
On whether Hunter Biden’s addiction was exacerbated by the loss of his brother:
Kelly: “I’m wondering if the grief from watching his brother go through so much, do you think that exacerbated the addiction in some way?”
Jill: “I for sure think it did exacerbate things. Addiction affects so many people, and it was really hard, I think, for me personally, to understand addiction, to understand it was an illness, because I kept feeling like, ‘My God, we gave him everything.’”
“‘We gave him a good education. He couldn’t be more loved. He has a great family. We live in a great house. What more could we have given him?’ And so you tend to look at yourself and think, ‘What did I do wrong? How could I have done this better?’ And once you’re going through rehab after rehab and you’re not getting answers, I think it’s really hard.”
“But Hunter has overcome his addiction, if that’s the right word. Thank God. You’ve probably heard him on podcasts now. He openly talks about addiction, which I think is helping other addicts see their way forward and helping families—”
Kelly: “Understand that it is a disease.”
Jill: “Yeah. Exactly. Because it’s really hard to understand when you’re going through it. But now he’s doing—he’s helping people in recovery. He’s been in recovery, I think I forget, it’s eight to 10 years now. He’s remarried. He has a beautiful little boy who he named Beau, who’s six years old now.”
“He turned his life around, but it wasn’t easy, and it was years and years.”
On Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis:
Jill: “He’s doing okay. When we got out, he was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. And, for anyone who’s listening, really, that diagnosis, you can be cured, and you can go through radiation or whatever. You can be cured, and you’ll be fine. Unfortunately for Joe, it metastasized to his bones.”
“Which means that he will forever live with cancer, and we have to be mindful of it every three months, testing and medicines. And anybody who’s gone through this cancer journey—and I’ve been through it many times with members of my family, of course with Beau—it’s constant.”
“It’s daily. And I think it’s challenging.”
Kelly: “A lot of people were dubious, thinking that it was a big cover-up, that everyone knew that, that you must have been covering for the President and known about this diagnosis. And we here at the podcast, my father, about six months before President Biden‘s diagnosis, was diagnosed with the exact same things.”
Jill: “Ugh.”
Kelly: “And so when people were like, ‘There’s no way you can’t know,’ oh, yes, there is. Because they don’t test men over 70 years old for prostate cancer. So it can be living there for all of those years, growing slowly, and eventually metastasize.”
“And my dad was in a car accident and thought he injured his back because somebody was texting and driving and hit him from behind. And if he didn’t get into that accident, I don’t know what would’ve happened, because he thought he just hurt his back in a car accident. He didn’t realize that it was the cancer in his bones. So I’m grateful for the car accident, believe it or not, because at least we were able to treat it. But I’m sure their treatments are exactly the same.”
Jill: “They probably are. And all of my friends would tell me, ‘Oh, my husband was up so many times last night.’”
“And then I would say, ‘Oh, my gosh. So was my husband and he wakes me up,’ and all that kind of… And it was just like when we’d get together. And that continued when we got out, and I said, ‘Joe, I…’ And you probably read this in the book. I said to the doctors, ‘He’s getting up seven times a night.’”
Kelly: “These are the White House doctors.”
Jill: “Yes. So I thought it was addressed. But like you’re saying, they were following the American Urological Association guidelines. And so they didn’t give him the PSA test, the blood test. But when it continued when we got out of the White House, I said, ‘Joe, we’ve got to go up to Jeff in Philly—something’s wrong.’”
“And so we did. But I never, oh my God, I never thought it would be prostate cancer.”
On whether she thinks she will see a female president in her lifetime:
Kelly: “Do you think we’ll ever see a woman president in our lifetimes?”
Jill: “In my lifetime. I’m 75.”
“I feel like probably not in my lifetime, Kelly, but maybe in yours.”
Kelly: “You think?”
Jill: “Yeah. You and I believe in a woman president. I obviously—”
“Like, no question, right? Yes. No, no question. No question.”
Kelly: “Yeah.”
Jill: “But I really did think last time that Kamala was gonna win. I bel—I was out on the campaign trail for her. I saw the excitement, I saw the crowds, I saw, at the convention. I saw all the energy, and I thought, ‘Finally, we’re going to have a woman president.’”
“And I must tell you, I was shocked the morning after when I got up at 5:00 in the morning to feed Willow and get ready for the day, and I found out that she had lost. Shocked.”
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