Melinda Gates on baving been in an abusive relationship: `It silences your voice’
09 June 2019 |
8:49 am
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, tells David Rubenstein that before she was married she was in an abusive relationship. "I lost my self-confidence," says Gates, who is working to curb abuse of women around the world. Her comments come in the new episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations."
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