Newsom was compelled to discuss the affair once more in 2018 when he was campaigning for the California governorship, and after the onset of the #MeToo motion. On the time, Politico reported that Newsom mentioned of the affair with Rippey-Tourk, “I acknowledged it. I apologized for it. I realized an unlimited quantity from it. We had been very open and sincere about it.”
He added that the #MeToo motion was “a profound alternative to deal with deeper points.”
Newsom’s second (and present) spouse, Jennifer Siebel Newsom who he married in 2008, grew to become embroiled within the #MeToo motion and was amongst a number of ladies who testified at Hollywood Mogul Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial in 2022. Siebel Newsom mentioned that in 2005, when she was an aspiring filmmaker, Weinstein lured her to a lodge room and sexually assaulted her.
In the course of the trial, Siebel Newsom admitted she had requested and obtained from Weinstein a political donation to Newsom’s mayoral marketing campaign, including that Newsom returned the cash following the onset of the #MeToo motion.