The release of a memoir from South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford has been pushed up to next month, Ballantine Books said Tuesday.
The 240-page Staying True — Sanford’s story of surviving her estranged husband’s infidelity –goes on sale Feb. 5 after originally being tapped for publication in May. In June, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to a yearlong extramarital affair after returning from a secret trip to Argentina to visit his lover. He told staffers he was hiking the Appalachian Trial.
Jenny’s tell-all will “recall her shock and anguish upon discovering that her husband was having an affair with a woman in Argentina, and the further pain when she learned — just a day ahead of most Americans — that he had not ended the affair when she believed he had,” according to promotional material from the book’s publishers. “She reveals the source of her determination to be honest and forthright instead of the victim in the tabloid passion play that gripped the nation in June 2009.”