Hunter Biden Gets Candid About Dating Brother's Widow In Memoir

Hunter Biden has opened up about various aspects of his life in his forthcoming tell-all book. The son of President Joe Biden also mentioned that he began a relationship with his late brother’s widow when she was at her "neediest" and he at his "lowest."

His brother Beau died of brain cancer in 2015, and after his funeral, Hunter said he’d started spending a lot of time at Hallie Biden's home to help with the children whom he took to school.

Defending his affair with his late brother’s widow, Hunter shared that it was only after his Grace Grove rehab center in Sedona, Arizona stint got over that he and Hallie got into a relationship.

"Feeling physically and mentally purged, I phoned Hallie and asked if she would come to Arizona to pick me up. I wanted her to accompany me on the trip back," Hunter wrote in the book titled "Beautiful Things."

He said he didn’t trust himself to make it home "without backsliding -- without taking a detour into the pit I fell into on my way there."

Hallie agreed to fly out to meet him. "I was at my lowest, she was at her neediest, and we clung to each other with abandon. We talked at length about how much we had come to rely on each other, how our health and well-being seemed dependent on the love we’d grown to share," he wrote.

"There’s no question about the unseen force in the middle of it all: Beau," Hunter wrote, adding that they’d come to think they could keep Beau alive by being together, "that by loving each other we somehow could love him back into existence."

By the time they returned to Delaware at the end of the week, they were "no longer just two people bound by shared grief. We were a couple."

"It was an affair built on need, hope, frailty, and doom," he added.

The Arizona trip happened in 2016. After that, Hunter said the two tried to keep their relationship a secret.

"That didn’t last long," Hunter wrote and said his estranged wife Kathleen found texts between the two on an iPad he’d left at the house.

"That gave her the gift of justification: I was the sicko sleeping with my brother’s wife. Everything blew up after that."

Kathleen and Hunter were not divorced, but had parted ways in October 2015, five months after Beau's death.

Hunter said that he and Hallie had not been close before Beau passed away. He said that Kathleen and Beau were the ones who were close and had inside jokes.

Hunter said he came to realize the relationship with Hallie was a "giant miscalculation on both our parts, errors in judgment born of a uniquely tragic time."

Less than three months after he moved in with Hallie and her and Beau’s kids, he moved out. But soon he moved back in, only to move out two weeks later.

"We were both too enmeshed in our own problems to be capable of helping each other," Hunter wrote.

"The life I was living was the antithesis of the life my brother had provided for her," he said, adding that he kept away from the family while he was on drug binges.

Meanwhile, in an interview with CBS, the 51-year-old spoke about the public reaction to him dating Hallie.

"I think people were confused by it. And I understand that. I mean, I really do. To me, it's not something that is difficult to explain. Because it came out of a real overwhelming grief that we both shared. And we were together, and trying to do the right thing. And that grief turned into a hope for a love that maybe could replace what we lost," said Hunter.

Ultimately, his relationship with Hallie "didn't work."

In May 2019, Hunter married South African filmmaker Melissa Cohen. They welcomed their first child, a son named Beau, in March 2020.

The book will hit the stands on Tuesday, April 6.