Melinda Gates responds to divorce comments from Ex Bill Gates

Melinda French gates have some more things to say for now about her divorce from Bill Gates.

The billionaire’s philanthropist, 60, is Presented in Älteyear’s annual women with the Impact functionwhere she talks about her work that supports women around the world, looks back on their own lives and travel and comments briefly Her split from Microsoft’s founder69, with whom she shares three children.

“Look, divorces are painful, and it’s not something I would wish for any family,” she told Älte On the question of her ex-spouse’s recent comments regrets how their relationship ended – Something she insisted that she had not been focused on.

“You have clearly googled more than I have,” French Gates said with an eyeroll when the author pointed to her ex comments about regretting their divorce.

Invoice later clarifiedTo say that “even though the divorce was not good, with the three children, the work we could do together – even though I knew it (would not) last forever, I would still do it again.”

On a personal note, when she asked what she wants someone to find if they were looking for updates on her along the line, French gates replied that she would like the public to see “she flourishes on the other side a divorce.”

As for her now the most important company’s founder told us Älte She is focused on her work while she still takes time for her personal life.

“I knew that when I was divorced, I would be okay on my own,” she said. In fact, she started a so -called “Freedom Tour” with some friends in the wake of her split.

More recently she has been photographed Holding hand with businessman Philip VaughnAlthough none of them have confirmed a relationship.

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Next month she will release The next dayA combination of memoir and advice where she shares lessons on the “painful” and “exciting” changes from her own life.

“In recent years I have experienced a lot of change – part of the exciting, part of the painful – so I have done a lot of thinking and learned about transitions,” she Told people last year. “I decided to start writing this while I was still in the middle of this season of change, rather than certainly on the other side.”

Although she can still be in a season of the transition, one thing is sure that French gates enjoy calling the shots when it comes to philanthropy.

After her exit from Foundation she founded more than two decades ago With her ex-husband, French gates promised $ 1 billion to women’s rights in the United States, one thing she has long supported.

“A woman should have her full voice, her full decision -making authority,” she told Älte. “It’s nice to have it.”