Michelle Obama is throwing more cold water on rumors of marital strife with the ex-commander in chief.
The former First Lady said if her 32-year marriage with former president Barack Obama was in trouble, it wouldn’t be some big secret.
“If I were having problems with my husband, everybody would know about it,” she said during an appearance on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast released Thursday.
Host Steven Bartlett noted that the “Becoming” author’s absence at Trump’s inauguration in January fueled scuttlebutt over possible discord in the couple’s union.
She laughed off the idea that not appearing at the event meant “there’s an issue with you and Barack, there’s a divorce coming.”
“Let me tell you,” she said after pointing to her brother, Craig Robinson, “he would know it. And everybody would know it.”
The siblings are currently promoting their recently-launched “IMO” podcast.
“I’m not a martyr,” the 61-year-old mother of two continued. “I would be problem-solving in public, like, ‘Let me tell you what he did,’” she joked of her spouse.
Michelle previously addressed her decision skip the inauguration on the April 23 episode of “IMO.”
“My decision to skip the inauguration — or my decision to make choices at the beginning of this year that suited me — were met with such ridicule and criticism,” she said. “People couldn’t believe that I was saying no for any other reason, that they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart.”
Weeks earlier, she appeared on Sophia Bush’s “Work in Progress” podcast and shared a similar sentiment after underscoring that her post-White House life is decided by what she wants to do.
“People couldn’t even fathom I was making a choice for myself,” Michelle said. “They had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing, that this couldn’t be a grown woman just making a set of decisions for herself. … If it doesn’t fit into the stereotype of what people think we should do, then it gets labeled as something negative.”
