The wife of a Maine Democratic Senate candidate has hit back after news broke that her husband had sent sexually explicit messages to other women. 

On Saturday, it was revealed that Graham Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, found that her partner had sent the inappropriate messages to at least a dozen women while the couple was trying to conceive a child through in vitro fertilization (IVF). 

But later that evening, Gertner, who has been married to Platner since 2023, called those reports ‘really shameful’ – despite disclosing the information herself to Genevieve McDonald, who was Platner’s political director until October, The New York Times reported. 

‘I wanted to make a statement today about a couple of news articles that are out there about my marriage to Graham,’ the 41-year-old said in a video that the politician shared to his campaign page on X. 

‘So it makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip, instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on, like healthcare and education and childcare,’ Gertner continued. 

She went on to insist that she and her husband have a ‘great marriage’ and that they have been struggling with infertility. 

‘Graham and I have a great marriage. Being married is hard. Being newly married is hard. Being newly married and going through infertility is hard. 

‘Being newly married, going through infertility, and a Senate campaign is hard. I don’t even know if I have the right words to describe what we’ve been going through,’ she added. 

Amy Gertner, the wife of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, hit out at media outlets who reported that her husband sent sexually explicit messages to other women

On Saturday it was revealed that Gertner found out that her husband had sent the inappropriate messages to at least a dozen women while she and him were trying to conceive a child through In vitro fertilization (IVF)

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