Overview
- Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage was released on January 13 following excerpts in The Times and The Sunday Times.
- In a New York Times podcast published Wednesday, Burden recounts that immediately after telling their children about the divorce, Henry Davis asked her to make him a sandwich.
- Davis issued a statement saying he disagrees with many of Burden’s recollections and her portrayal of his relationship with their children, adding he supports and is supported by them while declining further detail to protect their privacy.
- Burden’s account says she learned of the affair in March 2020 from a stranger’s voicemail at their Martha’s Vineyard home and that Davis admitted a brief relationship with a younger woman he met through work.
- She writes that the other woman attempted suicide after the affair was exposed and that Davis left the next day, later relinquishing custody and buying a two-bedroom Manhattan apartment whose second bedroom he turned into a home office.