After Gov. Robert Bentley paraded his affair in front of her, Dianne Bentley said “Enough.”

Alabama’s first lady has filed for divorce from Gov Robert Bentley, saying their 50-year marriage has suffered an ‘irretrievable breakdown’.

The complaint, filed on Friday, says that attempts at reconciliation are futile and that the couple has been living apart since January.

A lawyer for Alabama first lady Dianne Bentley wrote that her client says ‘there is such a complete incompatibility of temperament that the parties can no longer live together’.
Robert resigned after a salaciously damning report revealed an alleged long-term affair between him and his former senior political adviser, Rebekah Mason. He reportedly violated a number of campaign finance and state ethics laws while pursuing his extramarital relationship with Mason.
The former first lady of Alabama initially suspected something was wrong in her marriage way back in 2013, when she noticed Mason was regularly texting the governor off-hours about non-work-related matters. However, Dianne didn’t find her smoking gun until February 2014.
As she sat at a dinner table with both Robert and his mistress during the National Governor’s Association in Washington DC, Dianne noticed her husband had sent an extremely flirtatious text to Mason: I can’t take my eyes off of you. How Dianne managed to swallow the pain of officially realizing, in public, that her husband was cheating on her with his adviser, I’ll never understand. Robert continued to be horrendously bad at covering up his affair with Mason. In the spring of 2014, he accidentally texted his wife saying, “I love you, Rebekah.” But his worst mistake, by far, had to be when the former governor gave Dianne his state-issued iPad.

Apparently, the 74-year-old was utterly oblivious to the fact that the device was synced with his state-issued iPhone, and any texts sent from the phone would also be accessible on the iPad.
Though Dianne filed for divorce in 2015, she didn’t hand over the evidence to the ethics committee until 2016. While the texts and audio certainly damaged Robert’s reputation, his desperate and sketchy attempts to cover up the affair ultimately sealed his fate. According to the report, he used his bodyguard and law enforcement to intimidate people who knew about the affair into silence.
The former governor of Alabama officially resigned on Monday, April 10, and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges. He’s since said he will never run for or occupy public office again.