Rudy Giuliani Driven Into Binge-Drinking Depression After Losing 2008 Presidential Bid, Ex Says

The upcoming book Giuliani: The Rise And Fall Of America’s Mayor by Andrew Kirtzman seems chock-full of scandalous stories about Rudy Giuliani.

In the book, his ex-wife Judith Giuliani claimed that Rudy was shattered by dropping out of the 2008 Presidential election and said he went into “what, I knew as a nurse, was a clinical depression.”

Giuliani has denied having a drinking problem, but Kirtzman wrote his ex “said he started to drink more heavily,” and that she said he was “drinking to dull the pain.”

Kirtzman also alluded to this slump period in an opinion essay he penned for The New York Times in June.

For the essay, Judith said her ex was so distraught “It started to really worry me because he was waking up only if I would wake him.”

It also went into his supposed problem drinking during this time, and Kirtzman wrote that Judith suggested: “Her husband’s Achilles’ heel was his bottomless need for validation.”

Giuliani spent time in a bungalow across from the Mar-a-Lago resort at Donald Trump’s request.

Judith told Kirtzman for the book that this time they spent in Florida helped Giuliani get back on his feet, though suspicions of his alcoholism have not subsided.

Giuliani’s alleged alcoholism was also apparently a brief point of interest for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th riots.

A former senior adviser to the Trump White House, Jason Miller, testified in front of the committee that Giuliani was “definitely intoxicated” on election night 2020 when he also passionately insisted that Trump declare victory over Joe Biden despite the loss results.