Huma Abedin Says She Contemplated Suicide After Husband Was Caught In Sex Scandal

Huma Abedin, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton, says in a new book that she considered killing herself after husband Anthony Weiner was caught in a sexting scandal, which eventually landed him in jail.

“You write that, for a brief second, you contemplated walking off the subway platform?” Norah O’Donnell of CBS Evening News asked Abedin in an interview over the weekend, according to the Daily Mail.

“Well, one of the best things I’ve had in my life is my faith, and the belief that there is always a way through,” the 45-year-old Abedin said.

She also revealed that Weiner was having sex in the apartment the couple shared. “I know it’s hard for you to say it, but you found that he was having physical relationships in your apartment?” O’Donnell asked.

“Yes,” Abedin said. “It was that moment that I realized the way I had been handling my response to him was not working.”

Hawking a new book, “Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds,” Abedin said last week that she was once sexually assaulted by a U.S. senator. She said the assault occurred in the mid-2000s while she was working as an aide to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, according to The Guardian. Abedin does not identify the senator.

“Abedin — the estranged wife of serial pervert and ex-con former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner — said the assault happened after a dinner attended by ‘a few senators and their aides,’” according to the New York Post. “Clinton, for whom she served as a longtime right hand, was not there.”

“I ended up walking out with one of the senators, and soon we stopped in front of his building and he invited me in for coffee,” Abedin wrote, according to the Post. “Once inside, he told me to make myself comfortable on the couch.”

She wrote that the senator then took off his sport coat, rolled up his sleeves and then made some coffee as they chatted. Then he “plopped down to my right, put his left arm around my shoulder, and kissed me, pushing his tongue into my mouth, pressing me back on the sofa,” she said, according to the Post.

“I was so utterly shocked, I pushed him away,” Abedin wrote. “All I wanted was for the last 10 seconds to be erased.”

The senator, Abedin said, apologized and told her he had “misread” the situation, then asked if she wanted to stay.

“Then I said something only the

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