Platner Couple Sought Counseling After Wife's Early-Marriage Affair

Amy Gertner told a senior aide on her husband Graham Platner's Senate campaign about sexually explicit texts he had sent to other women, according to multiple reports published Saturday. Gertner made the disclosure last August during an internal vetting process that began shortly after Platner announced his candidacy.

She told then-political director Genevieve McDonald that she had discovered the messages on Platner's phone in the spring of 2025, early in their marriage.

Gertner said she shared the information to ensure the texts would not create problems for the campaign. A campaign official told the Wall Street Journal that McDonald concluded the matter was private and was being handled by the couple in marriage counseling. Current and former campaign officials confirmed the extramarital relationships.

Gertner and Platner married in November 2023. In a statement provided by the campaign, Gertner said they attended counseling and worked through the issue. "We went to counseling. We were honest with each other in ways that weren't easy.

And we came through it, not in spite of how much we've been through, but because of how much we love each other and the life we've built. Our marriage today is stronger than ever before," Gertner stated. She added that she knew the man she married and that his conduct as a husband had not changed.

"I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life. That hasn't changed, and it won't," Gertner said. Gertner also addressed her decision to confide in McDonald, whom she described as a friend.

"I trusted this person with the most private chapter of our lives — the early days of our marriage before any campaign was on our mind — and I am deeply hurt by her betrayal and the invasion of our privacy," she stated. U.S. Senate in Maine.

He will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November after Maine Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the Democratic primary in April. His remaining primary opponent is David Costello. The primary is scheduled for June 9.