Oct 3, 2026 · 59 min · 12 segments
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It's titled, How I Blew Up, Then Rebuilt My Life.
Now, for those who don't know.
That's going to be like
100% of all of you.
None of you know who this person is until the editors of Vanity Fair very helpfully drop a giant hint as to why you should care.
Yeah, they write with news of her affair with Gavin Newsom when news of her affair with Gavin Newsom exploded into the public eye.
It was only the outward mark of a long rippling private implosion in the wreckage of the scandal.
Ruby Rippy faced her demons but lost her voice.
20 years later, she's ready to share her story.
So in this entire essay, Rippy never once mentions Newsom's name.
That's the one portion.
I mean, everyone knows.
She
describes the affair.
know who she's talking
about.
And this is, as we'll get into later, this has
been very publicly documented.
When he ran for the second time to be a mayor of San Francisco, this kind of exploded all over the place because...
It turns out that she was his campaign manager's wife.
Yes.
And she was...
And she worked on his campaign too.
It's titled, How I Blew Up, Then Rebuilt My Life.
Now, for those who don't know.
That's going to be like
100% of all of you.
None of you know who this person is until the editors of Vanity Fair very helpfully drop a giant hint as to why you should care.
Yeah, they write with news of her affair with Gavin Newsom when news of her affair with Gavin Newsom exploded into the public eye.
It was only the outward mark of a long rippling private implosion in the wreckage of the scandal.
Ruby Rippy faced her demons but lost her voice.
20 years later, she's ready to share her story.
So in this entire essay, Rippy never once mentions Newsom's name.
That's the one portion.
I mean, everyone knows.
She
describes the affair.
know who she's talking
about.
And this is, as we'll get into later, this has
been very publicly documented.
When he ran for the second time to be a mayor of San Francisco, this kind of exploded all over the place because...
It turns out that she was his campaign manager's wife.
Yes.
And she was...
And she worked on his campaign too.
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