Jenna Bush Hager describes discovering dad George W. Bush's secret fiancée as a child
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Key Points:
- Jenna Bush Hager revealed on "Today with Jenna & Sheinelle" that she cried as a child upon discovering her father George W. Bush’s secret engagement from a decade before he married her mother.
- The former president was briefly engaged to his college sweetheart, Cathryn Lee Wolfman, during his junior year at Yale, but the wedding was called off for undisclosed reasons.
- Bush Hager accidentally found out about the engagement when her father showed her a memory box containing a wedding announcement while proving he never got bad grades.
- Reflecting as an adult, Jenna praised her father’s ability to end the engagement, recognizing it as a difficult but important decision that ultimately led to her existence.
- Wolfman, described as a fun-loving and academically accomplished cheerleader, later worked for the CIA, and their relationship reportedly ended due to busy schedules and drifting apart.
