Graham Platner’s Wife Produces Video Blasting “Shameful Gossip” About Husband’s Extramarital Sexting

The wife of a U.S. Senate candidate from Maine who sent sex texts to a dozen women says they have “a great marriage.”

Amy Gertner made a video Saturday for Democrat Graham Platner’s campaign showing her walking up and down a road in their town of Sullivan.

“I wanted to make a statement about my marriage,” Gertner says. “There’s a couple of news articles out there about my marriage.”

“We got married in 2023. We have two dogs. And we love each other deeply.

“So it makes me really angry, disappointed – I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on, like healthcare and education and child care,” she said.

Though she talks about so-called gossip she never explains what she’s allegedly referring to.

Gertner in her video makes no mention of the sexually explicit texts discovered by The Wall Street Journal, which reported them Saturday.

Platner’s wife last spring had told a campaign aide who she now says she mistakenly considered a good friend about the texts that she had found on his phone.

In the new video, Gardner also never says what she had been doing with her husband’s phone when she found the texts on it. Had she suspected infidelity and was looking for the goods? She never says.

“I just want to make sure that everyone knows that Graham and I have a great marriage,” she said in the new video. “Being married is hard, being newly married and going through infertility is hard, being newly married going through infertility and a senate campaign it’s hard.

“I don’t know if I even have the right words to describe what we’ve been going through,” she added, laughing nervously, “um, our marriage counselor helps, my personal counselor helps, Graham’s personal counselor helps, and we work on our mental health every day?

“No marriage is perfect and our marriage isn’t perfect and I don’t want a perfect marriage – I want my marriage. And I want to be married to Graham.”

Amid the video, Gertner points out that “I’m walking up and down my road right now. This is like my 20th take. This is very hard to do,” she said smiling, laughing.

She apologized twice to quote “my editing team” for the long, rambling statement focused mostly on her husband and their marriage.

“Um, I knew the man that I married is wonderful and dynamic and probably a genius,” she said.

“Um, I knew the man that I married had been through a tremendous amount of violence, active violence, and he’s been in therapy for years.”

Then, chuckling, she says, “I admire the f*ck out of him, so when there are news articles about our marriage it’s just extra s*itty,” laughing, “can I say that online? I hope I can.”

“Um, it’s extra s*itty because in Maine people want affordable gas, they want to be able to see their doctor when they are sick, they want to be able to, like, send their kids to a nice school, a nice daycare facility and raise their families the way they want to.

“So I think I’m feeling angry today and I don’t normally make public statements but it’s very important for me to tell all of you out there especially people who are voting in Maine that I think it’s shameful behavior to spend time and energy and resources on negative resources on negative ads and negative stories on Graham when all he’s trying to do is improve the lives of people who work for a living and that’s it. He doesn’t have any other agenda which is what I think people are trying to dig up.”

Gertner concluded by saying that “Graham and I really care about the state of Maine, we really love it, we were born and raised here and I think we deserve better, I think Mainers deserve better, I don’t know what else to say.”