President Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, has been hit hard by her father's admission of an affair with a White House intern, the president's half-brother said in an interview published Thursday.
"Despite her good humor and her happiness, Chelsea has been deeply shaken by this whole thing. Like Bill. Like Hillary," Roger Clinton said in an interview with the weekly Paris-Match."She goes to class every day and I imagine that in her crowd there are plenty of comments," he was quoted as saying. "But she will not give up her joie de vivre, despite what all three are going through at this time."
The president had a private visit with Chelsea, a student at Stanford University, while he was in California on Oct. 25.
Asked how Hillary Clinton was holding up, Roger Clinton said he did not know how she felt and "I'm not even going to try to guess."
But he said Chelsea "was doing her best to get through these trying times. But with the parents she has, the education she's had, she is strong enough to get through this and make her own way in life."
President Clinton said in an interview earlier this week that he was still working on healing his family relationship and had put behind him "all the pain and humiliation and the anger" that followed the intense public reaction to his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton acknowledged his affair with the former White House intern on Aug. 17 after denying it since January. He faces an impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives, over perjury and cover-up allegations in connection with the affair.