Newsom’s Wife Makes Bombshell Admission About Involvement in Sister’s Killing 42 Years Ago
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, accidentally killed her sister during a family vacation in 1981. The day the accident happened was a few days before Siebel Newsom’s 7th birthday, she told…
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, accidentally killed her sister during a family vacation in 1981.
The day the accident happened was a few days before Siebel Newsom’s 7th birthday, she told the Los Angeles Times.
Siebel Newsom, the second-eldest of five sisters, was playing on golf carts in Hawaii with other children when she backed her cart up without noticing that her older sister Stacey, 8, was hiding behind it.
The cart ran over Stacey, killing her.
Siebel Newsom responded to the childhood trauma by pushing herself academically, and in the arts and sports, she told the Times.
“I felt the pressure to be perfect, to make my parents forget, by being two daughters instead of one,” she said.
Siebel Newsom attended Stanford University, where she played soccer and earned an MBA.
“I’m sure there was survivor’s guilt, 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 have an impact, double my own, which is a little crazy,” the 48-year-old said.