Michelle Obama Reportedly Wants to ‘Flee the US Without Barack’ Days After Addressing Divorce Rumors
Michelle Obama isn’t letting anything get in the way of her vacation plans. After addressing rumors about divorce and tensions in her marriage with Barack Obama, sources close to the IMO podcast host say that she’s looking to find peace even if the former President doesn’t join along in her journey.
“Michelle has been wanting a lot lately to do things for her, to fulfill some dreams and life goals that she has been having but couldn’t really fulfill due to her life and because of her husband’s responsibilities,” a source close to Michelle told The U.S. Sun that she wants to “flee US for Europe WITHOUT Barack.” “But lately, she has been doing things for her, and she has a dream that she has been having since she was a teenager about living out of America for a bit, and spend time in another continent, like Europe.
All the former first lady wants to do is relax without any pressure surrounding her. “To enjoy espresso at a terrace, eat some pastries, walking down the streets like a normal person and not get any attention, and get away from all the spotlights, that is one goal that she would like to do soon,” the source said saying that she’d love to move temporarily to Mediterranean countries like Italy, Greece, or Spain. “She is really interested by this possibility, to go there for some months, I don’t know if Barack would join her or not, but she really would love to live this kind of experience as soon as possible.”
On the Work in Progress podcast hosted by Sophia Bush, Michelle reiterated about making her own schedule without her responsibilities of being the President’s wife. “Now, you know, I can’t blame my decisions and indecisions on anyone other than me,” Michelle said, adding, “I think if I’m honest with myself, I could have made a lot of these decisions years ago. But I didn’t give myself that freedom.”
Michelle also addressed the ongoing divorce rumors that have plagued her and her husband’s lives since they started attending separate events. “That’s the thing that we as women struggle with — disappointing people. I mean, so much so that this year people couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself. That they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.”
“This couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions herself, right? But that’s what society does to us,” she continued. “We start actually going, what am I? What am I doing? What am I doing this for? And if it doesn’t fit into the sort of stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative and horrible.”
Despite the ongoing rumors, Michelle continues to be optimistic and open about talking about her marriage with her husband of over 30 years. “People always ask me and Barack, how did we stay hopeful in, not just the eight years that we were in the White House, but beyond?” she said in her podcast IMO. “Because, let me tell you, there was a lot of negative energy flipping our way—a lot of rumors, a lot of gossip, a lot of, you know, my husband wasn’t born in this country…we weren’t patriotic, he didn’t get into Harvard.”
“But through it all, what kept us sane — and we tried to instill this in our daughters — is, you cannot live through social media,” she said, adding that she’s certain that she’s never “once looked at a comment section.”
“Don’t let that negative energy enter into your space. These are people who don’t know you. A lot of this stuff is made up, and it does not feed you,” she concluded.
