McGreevey is the former New Jersey Govenor who resigned in 2004 after having an affair with former aide Golan Cipel. He’s putting it out there in his new autobiography, The Confession.
The Confession

McGreevey said he erected a “steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts,” which he considered an asset as a politician, even though it ate at him.

Writing of his alleged affair with Cipel that forced his secret life into the open, McGreevey says his paramour was enamored by his power.

“I think Golan expected me to end up in the White House,” he says in the book.

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In addition to his love life, McGreevey discusses politics in the tome. He says he thought about giving up politics and coming out after he lost his first race for governor to Christine Todd Whitman in 1997.

“I thought to myself: You’re at a fork in the road. You could give this up and be yourself … But I felt compelled to keep running for governor.”

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