The Obamas are laughing off divorce rumors.
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama playfully addressed headlines about their marriage during a July 14 episode of Michelle Obama’s “IMO” podcast.
At the start of the show, Michelle Obama revealed that she had a “very special” guest joining her and her brother, Craig Robinson, who also is a co-host on the podcast.
When they revealed that the guest was none other than Barack Obama, the former U.S president entered the room. He gave Michelle Obama a hug and kiss on the cheek, which made Robinson crack a joke.
“Wait, you guys like each other?” he said.
“That’s the rumor mill,” Michelle Obama replied.
As he was taking his seat, Barack Obama joked, “She took me back. It was touch and go for a while.”
Michelle Obama then warned her hubby not to “start,” but once everyone was settled in their seats, Robinson said, “It’s so nice to have you both in the same room together,” which made Michelle Obama address the divorce rumors.
“I know, because when we aren’t, folks think we’re divorced,” she said.
Robinson said that people approach him on the street to ask about his sister’s marriage to the former president. He described an encounter in Wichita, Kansas where a woman asked, “What did he do?” about Barack Obama.
“I said, ‘What makes you think he messed up?’ Why couldn’t it have been her?” he said.
Michelle Obama interjected and said, “Why didn’t you just say, ‘No one messed up.'”
“I wanted to keep this conversation going so I could tell you about it,” Robinson said.
Eventually Robinson told the woman everything was fine between the Obamas. “She was so happy you would’ve thought I gave her a Christmas gift,” he said.
Barack Obama, meanwhile, said these are the headlines he’ll “just miss.”
“Then someone will mention it to me and I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?'” he said.
That’s when Michelle Obama stepped in to clear up any confusion about her marriage.
“There hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I have thought about quitting on my man,” she said. “And we’ve had some really hard times. We’ve had a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures. I’ve become a better person because of the man I’m married to.”
“OK, don’t make me cry now,” Barack Obama interjected. “Not at the beginning of the show.”
Barack and Michelle Obama have been married since 1992 and share two daughters, Malia, 27, and Sasha, 24.
During an April appearance on the “Work in Progress with Sophia Bush” podcast, Michelle Obama said she believes the divorce rumors started once she started to make her own schedule.
Notably, she did not join Barack Obama at the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter in January, nor did she go to President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
“The interesting thing is that, when I say ‘no,’ for the most part people are like, ‘I get it, and I’m OK,’” she said. “That’s the thing that we as women, I think we struggle with disappointing people. So much so that this year people were — they couldn’t even fathom that I was making a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I are divorcing.”
Michelle Obama is getting candid about her marriage to former president Barack Obama. The former First Lady appeared on the March 20 episode of Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast. During their conversation, Obama revealed that her husband at one point suggested the idea of a third child.
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