Gayle King’s ex pleads for forgiveness for bedroom betrayal
TV Titan’s groveling ex-husband Gayle King has apologized again for cheating on TV CBS Mornings host decades ago after she aired the dirty details of how she caught him with another woman, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The messy mea culpa was prompted by King, 71, who opened up about the unfortunate encounter during the May 27 episode of the Call her daddy podcast.
King told how she returned home on the night of June 24, 1990, with her and then-husband William Bumpus’ two children, daughter Kirby, now 40, and son Will, 39, after her flight was cancelled.
“He comes flying out of the room. He has a towel on and says, ‘You can’t come in!'” King remembers William’s panicked reception, to which she responded, “What do you mean I can’t come in? What are you talking about?”
Bumpus, she added, gave up the ghost at that moment, admitting that “someone is there,” a revelation that King said led her to search the house and find the other woman — who has never been publicly named but whom Gayle has referred to as a friend — “huddled behind the door in my towel.”
King shared, “I said, ‘I can’t believe you’re here and you’re doing this.’ I even said – I sounded so pathetic – ‘I thought we were friends.’”
The incident was the fatal blow to their eleven-year marriage. Koning and Bumpus divorced in 1993.
After the yakker’s daytime interview, Bumpus — a retired attorney who worked in the Connecticut Attorney General’s office — publicly apologized for his philandering and “the pain” he caused his family “decades ago.” He admitted: “These actions were mine.”
This isn’t the first time King has discussed her painful past — nor the first time Bumpus has apologized.
In 2006, she revealed his deception to the world during her radio show, and in 2016, she narrated Vanity fair that she wasn’t a big fan of the woman “I caught naked with” Bumpus.
After the 2016 sit-down, Bumpus responded by saying he was “haunted” by his “life-changing choice…that dramatically changed all of our lives.”
He added: “I have nothing but the utmost respect for Gayle and the way she handled herself with grace.”
