Nicola Sturgeon has mentioned on-line rumours and the necessity to search extra privateness was “part of the reason” she resigned.
The former SNP chief introduced her shock resignation as Scotland’s first minister in February, saying “in my head and in my heart” she knew it was time to step down.
But she has now revealed in a BBC Scotland podcast that on-line gossip about her had been “part of the reason” behind the choice.
One of the claims she dismissed was she was a “secret lesbian” who had an affair with a feminine French diplomat and the pair had purchased a home from tennis star Sir Andy Murray’s mom Judy as a love nest.
Other rumours she talked about included her having a world property portfolio and an excellent injunction in place to cover the reality.
Ms Sturgeon mentioned: “I’m not naive, I’m not of the view that I will step down one day and be completely anonymous the next day. I understand the realities of what I have done and I’ll still be in parliament, but I want to have a bit more privacy.
“I need to have a bit extra anonymity and I simply need to shield a few of what folks take with no consideration of their lives that I’ve forgotten to have.”
Ms Sturgeon led the Holyrood authorities for eight years after being an MSP since 1999 and mentioned it was “an achievement” that folks really feel they nonetheless have no idea something about her.
She mentioned some folks need to imagine “there is one hidden secret life of Nicola Sturgeon, which sadly in some respects I am afraid is not the case”.
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Ms Sturgeon added: “I read accounts of my life on social media and I think, ‘You know, it is so much more glamorous sounding and so much more exciting’.”
The seasoned politician was changed as first minister by Humza Yousaf earlier this week.
Her husband, Peter Murrell, stop as chief govt of the SNP shortly after her resignation as he mentioned his future had change into a “distraction” from the competition to switch his spouse.
His dramatic departure after greater than twenty years within the publish got here after the social gathering’s head of communications stop within the wake of revelations he inadvertently supplied bogus membership numbers to a journalist.
Source: information.sky.com”