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Relationship => Marriage & Family Life => Topic started by: theking on June 03, 2026, 12:24:59 AM
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Graham Platner's wife told campaign about sexually explicit texts he sent to other women
The wife of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner told his campaign in 2025 about sexual messages he had sent to other women.
Amy Gertner, whom Platner has been married to since November 2023, told the campaign about the texts during an internal vetting process last year at the beginning of his campaign. Gertner's disclosure of the texts was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
In a video posted by Platner's campaign's social media, Gertner said, "I just really wanted to make sure that everyone knows that Graham and I have a great marriage."
"Being married is hard," she said. "Being newly married is hard. Being newly married and going through infertility is hard. Being newly married, going through infertility and a Senate campaign is hard. I don't even know if I have the right words to describe what we've been going through, but our marriage counselor helps, my personal counselor helps, Graham's personal counselor helps and we work on our mental health every day. No marriage is perfect."
In a statement from Gertner provided by the Platner campaign earlier Saturday, she wrote that they have gone through counseling and that their marriage today "is stronger than ever before."
"I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life. That hasn't changed, and it won't," she added.
She also notes how she shared "deeply personal details about my marriage" to an unnamed campaign staffer.