Gayle King's Night of Betrayal: A Cheating Revelation That Shaped a Celebrity Marriage

Gayle King recounts on Call Her Daddy the night she walked in on her then-husband William Bumpus with a close friend in 1990—after coming home early with two toddlers, finding the house alarm activated, and a woman hiding with a bath sheet while Bumpus fled in a towel. Police arrived, and the affair was later confronted with the husband of the girlfriend after Oprah Winfrey urged King to tell him. Bumpus publicly apologized in 2016 for the betrayal, and King and Bumpus eventually divorced, a defining, widely discussed moment in her personal history.