“My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25,” Carol McCain, John McCain’s first wife told Britain‘s Mail on Sunday.
With McCain the presumptive GOP nominee, people are again looking at his relationship with Carol McCain, the woman who waited for him while he was a prisoner in Vietnam.
McCain met Carol in the 1950s when he was attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. At the time, Carol was a former swimsuit model and was married to another Annapolis cadet, Alasdair Swanson, with whom she had two children.
Having been part of a crew of Navy dudes who called themselves the “Bad Bunch,” McCain found Carol to be beautiful and thought that she was the perfect officer’s wife.
Asked Monday about the circumstances of his divorce from Carol, Alasdair Swanson would not confirm or deny speculation that McCain played a role in their breakup. “I have no comment,” Swanson told us.
Carol, now 70, also declined comment. But last week she acknowledged that McCain’s post-Vietnam cheating shattered their marriage.
McCain himself admitted he was unfaithful to her in his memoir, “Faith of My Fathers,” blaming the marriage’s collapse on “my own selfishness and immaturity. … I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the [stress of] war. The blame was entirely mine.”
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