Gavin Newsom haunted by cruel comment from his mom

Gavin Newsom has revealed his mother “cruelly” told him it was “ok to be average” one night as he struggled with severe dyslexia.

Newsom writes in his upcoming memoir his mom Tessa Menzies made the comment in frustration because a young Newsom couldn’t complete his homework.

The 58-year-old wannabe president writes in “Young Man in a Hurry” her comments were supposed to be a “consolation” but they have haunted him ever since.

“I don’t recall crueler words ever said about me,” he writes, according to Politico.

The California governor writes he could barely read or write as a child, cheated on schoolwork using CliffsNotes, and was expelled from elementary school.

Newsom admitted he still struggles with prepared speeches and says his polished image is his ”coping mechanism” rather than just confidence.

Meanwhile, Newsom said he helped administer a fatal dose of morphine to his mother when assisted suicide was illegal — another memory that haunts him to this day.  

Newsom also reveals that following his mother’s yearslong battle with breast cancer, he helped Tessa illegally die by suicide in 2002. She was in her 50s when she decided to end her life.

Assisted suicide only became legal in California in 2016 when then-Governor Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act. 

Newsom writes the look on her face ”will never leave my mind.” 

“There was no peace that blanketed her,” Newsom wrote, according to Politico.

“She left me a message, because I was too busy: ‘Hope you’re well. Next Wednesday will be the last day for me. Hope you can make it.’ I saved the cassette with the message on it, that’s how sick I am,” adding that the night before he gave her the drugs his mother pushed him to get out of politics.

Newsom at the time was serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A year after his mother’s death, he went on to become the city’s youngest elected mayor in a century.

The memoir, titled “Young Man in a Hurry,” is scheduled to be released on February 24.

It was more than five years in the making, according to Politico, and is filled with an introspective take on the likely presidential candidate’s personal life.

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