Gennifer Flowers, 'mistress' of Bill Clinton, says they ended 12-year affair because of Chelsea and that Hillary is bisexual

Gennifer Flowers, who claims to have carried on a 12-year relationship with Bill Clinton at a 1995 book event. Picture: AFP

THE woman who claims she was Bill Clinton's mistress, Gennifer Flowers, says she and Mr Clinton would still be together if it weren't for his daughter Chelsea and that Mr Clinton confided that wife Hillary Clinton was bisexual.

Breaking her silence two decades after news of their affair surfaced, Flowers, now a singer and sex advice columnist in New Orleans, told the MailOnline she has no regrets but believes she and Mr Clinton would still be together if Mrs Clinton had not become pregnant with daughter Chelsea. Mr Clinton was "the love of her life", she said.

Flowers' claims to have been Mr Clinton’s mistress for 12 years threatened to sink his 1992 presidential campaign, until Mrs Clinton appeared beside him as the supportive wife during a 60 Minutes interview days later, in which Mr Clinton denied the affair.

"Bill and I would be together today if it wasn’t for politics. It was me, Billy and Hillary. Then they had Chelsea and the stakes got too high," Flowers said.

And Flowers said Mr Clinton confided in her that Mrs Clinton - long dogged by rumours about her sexuality - was bisexual.

"I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn't care. He should know," she said.

Six years after denying their affair on national TV, Mr Clinton admitted to having sex with Flowers "one time" in the 1970s during a deposition with lawyers for Paula Jones, who sued him for sexual harassment. Mr Clinton was also infamously impeached as president after lying under oath about his affair with then-22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Flowers claims she and Bill Clinton would still be together today if Hillary Clinton had not become pregnant with daughter Chelsea Clinton. Picture: Getty

Flowers said she believes Mrs Clinton stuck by her philandering husband because she wants to be President, and that despite their differences, Flowers would cast her vote for Mrs Clinton in 2016.

"Absolutely that was her reason for sticking by him and he’s going to stick by her because he owes her that. I would have thrown his clothes out on the lawn but that’s just me," she said. "I would love to see a woman president. And she seems to be the only one that’s getting close to it."

Flowers says that if their affair had occurred today, there would have been a text message record and email trail that would have made it impossible for Mr Clinton to deny their affair.

"I had recorded telephone conversations thank God. But If I hadn’t had them and Monica hadn’t had that blue dress we would have been cast out as crazy stalkers. I think today Bill and I would have texted every opportunity we got. So I would have had tons of texts from him."

Mr Clinton contacted her out of the blue eight years ago, but she turned him down, Flowers says. It was the first time she’d heard from him in 13 years, and she now regrets not meeting up.

"We have some unresolved issues that it would be nice to sit down and talk about now,” she said.
"He was the love of my life and I was the love of his life and you don’t get over these things."