Dina Matos went on NBC's Today Show Tuesday to express her sympathy for Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.
Matos stood by her husband three years ago, when then-New Jersey Gov. James "Jim" McGreevey announced he was a "gay American" and had an affair with a male member of his staff.
“It’s very easy for people on the outside to criticize and say, ‘I wouldn’t have been there. Why is she there? He disgraced her,’ ” Matos told Today Show co-host Matt Lauer.
Matos said the duration of their marriage shows that they have been committed to each other for a while, but it is a private matter.
“It’s a very personal matter,” Matos told Lauer. “For me, I thought about my daughter. This was a man that I loved, whom I had taken a vow to stand by in good times and in bad, and that was the right decision for me at the time. It was very personal. It was not about the politics.”
“But you don’t know what the marriage is like,” Matos continued. “You don’t know what their relationship is like. They’ve been married over 20 years. I’m sure they have a long history together. There’s love there. There’s obviously now betrayal."
Eliot and Silda Wall Spitzer have been married since 1987 and have three teenage daughters together. Wall was previously married for just 29 days to Peter Stamos, a fellow Harvard law student who was also a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
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