If Katie Hill were a different person, she might have gone away and found religion. Perhaps she would have tearfully apologized, a dutiful husband by her side, and vowed to do better. Maybe she would have checked herself into sex rehab, hiked the Appalachian Trail or flat-out denied anything untoward
But Hill, the former congresswoman from California whose polyamorous affair with a campaign staff member was exposed after nude photos of her began circulating online, did none of those things. She resigned, less than two weeks after the photos became public and less than a year into her term.
“You are the ultimate insider,” she told her guest, “and can tell us the scoop on how politics is disgusting, right?” Hill believes the photos were leaked by her estranged husband, Kenny Heslep, who she said was abusive and had threatened to “ruin her” if she left him, which she had, five months before the leak. Through a lawyer, Erin McKinley, Heslep declined to comment for this article. He has denied releasing the photos, saying his computer was hacked.
“I’m leaving. But we have men who have been credibly accused of intentional acts of sexual violence and remain in boardrooms, on the Supreme Court, in this very body and, worst of all, in the Oval Office,” she said. And the photos remain on the internet, and probably always will, a reality Hill is getting used to day by day.
Using leftover money from her reelection fund, she recently started a political action committee, HerTime, which is devoted to supporting younger women and women of color. The book begins in the days after the photo leak, which was technically late 2019, when, as she writes, she spent days “curled up in my bed with my mind in the darkest places it’s ever been.” She contemplated suicide.
The next morning, when she came downstairs from her bedroom at her mother’s home, she found him unresponsive. He had died of a drug overdose: cocaine laced with fentanyl, according to the coroner’s report. “It felt important for me to be there, just to be like, ‘I’m not going to go hide away,’” she said. “I got this pin for life, you know?” She was referring to her Congressional pin, which grants lifetime membership to the Capitol. She keeps hers in a jewelry box in her towel closet.
From the time she was 12, Hill said, she worked multiple jobs: at a horse ranch, babysitting, as a dog groomer, saving up to buy a horse. She grew up in Rosamond, California, on the border of Los Angeles County, and then Santa Clarita, near Six Flags, shuttling between her divorced parents. She has been slowly decorating her apartment and bingeing shows she never got around to seeing, like “Mad Men” and “Sex and the City.”
“He retired, but nobody ran him off his seat,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. Gaetz served on the House Armed Services Committee with Hill, a fellow millennial, and was one of the few people who defended her publicly when the photos were released. “I still wish she would have stayed,” Gaetz said. “I was among those who texted her saying, ‘Don’t quit, don’t quit.’ Go to therapy, go to something, get yourself into recovery,” said Christine Pelosi, daughter of the House Speaker, who chairs the Women’s Caucus for California Democrats. “But she chose the path that she chose.”“I was completely overwhelmed by everything — how many people had seen my naked body, the comments, the articles, the millions of opinions, the texts, the calls, the threats,” she writes.
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