Melinda Gates opens up about unbelievably painful divorce from Bill

Melinda Gates discusses her 'unbelievably traumatic' separation from Bill.

Now, the computer scientist has opened up about her decision to leave her husband-of-nearly-three-decades,

telling Fortune magazine in a new interview that the COVID-19 pandemic helped give her the 'privacy to do what she needed to do.

'I had some reasons I just couldn’t stay in that marriage anymore,' she explained.

But the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do.

It’s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.'

Melinda Gates opens up about 'unbelievably painful' divorce from Bill