Ginger White feels used, said Leslie Bennetts in TheDailyBeast​.com. The Atlanta single mother recently alleged that she’d had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain—a revelation that derailed his floundering campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. When White, 46, first met Cain in the late 1990s, she was impressed by his confidence. “I was amazed at how a person could just come up to you at a cocktail party, and an hour and a half later he wanted me to follow him to his hotel to plan our first trip to Palm Springs,” she says. For her, the relationship provided not only romantic getaways but financial support.
She always knew it was headed nowhere. “Herman helped me out because it meant I could be there if he ever needed another fling. One time we were having sex, and I was looking up at the ceiling, thinking, ‘What am I going to buy at the grocery store tomorrow?’” Their relationship ended this spring, when Cain—who has been married for 43 years—told White that he was running for president. “I said, ‘I guess we won’t be friends anymore.’ He said, ‘No, I don’t think so.’ It confirmed what I already felt. It wasn’t a love affair. It wasn’t even a friendship really.”
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
Cuba's mercenaries fighting against UkraineThe Explainer Young men lured by high salaries and Russian citizenship to enlist for a year are now trapped on front lines of war indefinitely
-
Living the 'pura vida' in Costa RicaThe Week Recommends From thick, tangled rainforest and active volcanoes to monkeys, coatis and tapirs, this is a country with plenty to discover
-
Without Cuba, US State Sponsors of Terrorism list shortensThe Explainer How the remaining three countries on the U.S. terrorism blacklist earned their spots
