CHICAGO — The wife of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said she and her
husband have undergone marital counseling and spiritual therapy since he
told her nearly two years ago of an extramarital affair."He said it was over. I was mortified and in agony, but he knew if I found out any other way it would be over. That the only way to save our marriage was to come clean," Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson said in an interview published in Sunday editions of the Chicago Sun-Times. "There were sleepless nights and I started losing hair and I told him I would only consider staying if we got into therapy."
She said she immediately questioned herself and whether it was her fault, but she never wanted details. When word of the affair became public last week, she said it was like opening the wound again.
Jesse Jackson Jr., a Democrat, has been dogged by corruption allegations in connection with former Gov. Rod Blagojevich since December 2008, shortly after Blagojevich was arrested.
Last week, more allegations surfaced that Jackson told a businessman to offer Blagojevich $6 million in exchange for an appointment to Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat. The businessman also told the FBI he purchased plane tickets for a woman identified as a "social acquaintance" of Jackson.
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