Margaret Trudeau

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

I love the life I've had.

I have five of the most beautiful children.

I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.

I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

I tried during the 1974 campaign to show my husband not as the aloof intellectual people think he is, but the warm, passionate man I know. But the day after the election - after I'd worked so hard - I was put back on the shelf. I was devastated.