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California’s First Spouse Jennifer Siebel Newsom spoke candidly about a childhood accident that killed her sister, explaining that it inspired her to serve others.
Siebel Newsom, who married California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2008, told the Los Angeles Times that she and her older sister Stacey had played golf carts on a Hawaiian vacation in 1981.
She was unaware that her 8-year-old sister was hiding behind her cart when it backed up and killed her. Siebel Newsom was days away from turning 7 years old.
The Stanford University alumna explained that she felt pressure to compensate for her sister’s tragic death.
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California filmmaker and first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom opened up to the Los Angeles Times about a tragic childhood accident that resulted in the loss of her older sister. (Sarah Morris/Getty Images)
“I felt the pressure to be perfect, to make my parents forget, to be two daughters instead of one,” recalled Siebel Newsom. She went on to play soccer for the U.S. Soccer youth team before eventually graduating from Stanford Graduate School of Business with an MBA.
The golf cart incident wasn’t the only traumatic incident Siebel Newsom has experienced, she said. The “Miss Representation” filmmaker also took the stand against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein during his rape trial last November.
She testified that she was sexually assaulted by Weinstein in 2005 in a Beverly Hills suite, claiming the process was as painful as the assault itself.
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U.S. President Joe Biden, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Lynn Siebel Newsom wave to the crowd as they campaign to keep the governor in office at Long Beach City College on the eve of the final day of the special election to elect the governor to be recalled September 13, 2021 in Long Beach, California.
“It was a horrifying experience. I don’t wish it on anyone,” she recalls. The jury was deadlocked on the charges in her case, which hurt her even more.
But Siebel Newsom explained that because of her past traumatic experiences, she finds purpose in helping others.
“I’m sure there was a sense of guilt in the survivor, and I’m sure in my subconscious it’s like I have to make up for that loss, and I have to do something to improve other people’s lives or make an impact, it double of my own life.” , which is kind of crazy,” Siebel Newsom told the LA Times.
California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom speaks at the Women’s March California 2019 on January 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
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“(Helping others) is my survival mechanism,” she said. “I think I learned that as a kid to survive. I think so many of us learn to survive by trying to discover what good we can make.”
