Rudy Giuliani’s Ex-Wife Paints Disappointing Picture Of Him Today

Rudy Giuliani wasn’t always as divisive as he is now — in fact, he was widely praised for his response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. Oprah Winfrey christened him “America’s Mayor,” and he became Time’s 2001 Person of the Year. However, throughout their marriage from 2003 to 2019, Giuliani’s ex-wife saw him take a turn for the worse. In a new interview with Inside Edition (via the Daily Mail), Judith Giuliani said, “‘I can certainly tell you — the person you see now is not the man I married.”

As for where it all went wrong, Judith attributes Rudy’s changes to his loss of the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. After John McCain won instead, Donald Trump took Rudy under his wing and began grooming him for a spot in an eventual campaign of his own. Judith said, “There becomes this thing I watched happen to him — that power just becomes extremely addictive.” She continued, “One of the other things Rudy also loves is the limelight.”

That could possibly explain his appearance on “The Masked Singer.” When asked if he did it for the money, Judith was adamant he didn’t need any “‘The guy I married would not have gone on ‘The Masked Singer,’” she revealed. “I just thought it was rather silly for someone in his position.” The interview coincides with the release of “Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor,” a biography by Andrew Kirtzman.