India, April 3 -- Melinda Gates is opening up on her "gruelling" split from Bill Gates. In her upcoming book, The Next Day, she detailed how she made up her mind to tell her ex-husband about wanting to live separately and, eventually, a divorce. The 60-year-old confessed that she "started having panic attacks" in the days that followed after the tough conversation she had with the Microsoft founder in 2020, according to People.

In her book, Melinda writes that she had "difficult periods" with Bill before, but in 2019, she began having "nightmares" about a house collapsing around her. "Bill has publicly acknowledged that he wasn't always faithful to me," she goes on before highlighting a "deeply disturbing" article about her ex-husband's ...