Movie star chef and writer Sandra Lee might not be with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, however she tells PEOPLE she has a number of affection for him — and all the time will.
“Andrew will all the time be one of the biggest loves of my life and we'll proceed to be household,” she says.
“His daughters and I share an extremely shut bond,” Lee, 53, says, referring to Cuomo’s three daughters with Kerry Kennedy: Michaela and twins Cara and Mariah.
“I will continue to be there for them as I have been for the final 14 years,” Lee tells PEOPLE.
She and Cuomo, who first met in 2005 and commenced courting soon after, announced their split on Wednesday, saying in a joint assertion, partially: “Over the current previous, we've realized that our lives have gone in several directions and our romantic relationship has became a deep friendship.”
A source echoes that, telling PEOPLE, “Sandra has given every part to their family in the final 14 years and adores Andrew’s daughters. The connection primarily turned from a romantic relationship right into a friendship.”
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“New York’s ‘first girlfriend’ is now everyone’s first girlfriend,” says a supply near the couple. “And the most effective things about Sandra is she’s all the time put her girlfriends first.”
Lee, a former Meals Network host, bestselling cookbook writer and way of life character, not often combined her private life with Cuomo’s political career. The son of a earlier New York governor, Cuomo is in his third time period.
Lee playfully used the “first girlfriend” honorific herself, and among different causes she supported efforts to finish childhood starvation.
“We simply have a superb time collectively,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in 2011 of life with Cuomo.
They stored the early months of their romance quiet, even from his youngsters, whom she would come to name her personal. Some eighteen months in, nevertheless, “His mother and father informed them for us,” Lee told the New York Post in 2011. “We simply needed to make it possible for we have been going to be collectively eternally. I don’t consider in disrupting their lives.”
In time, Lee grew close to the three Cuomo women.
“Although I have by no means birthed youngsters myself, I simply can’t picture loving any baby more than I do these three,” she wrote in a Facebook post in 2017. “The thought that I had a hand in helping to boost such lovely, variety, clever women is superb. However what I recognize probably the most is that Andrew, my life associate and sweetheart, all the time included me, making me part of the household and the co-parent of these spectacular younger ladies.”
The source tells PEOPLE that, regardless of what they nonetheless shared, Cuomo and Lee had not been collectively much in current months.
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“The couple spent the summer time apart, as Andrew was tied to Albany and Sandra has spent loads of time on the West Coast caring for her uncle who has been recognized with colon most cancers and a failing coronary heart,” the supply says. Lee took her uncle “on an extended bucket listing journey.”
She has also been in Los Angeles in search of further remedy after breast most cancers reconstruction problems, in accordance with an insider. Lee had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Noting that one in every of Cuomo’s daughters resides with Lee in Manhattan, the supply says, “Family is every little thing to Sandra and she or he all the time makes positive nobody falls by means of the cracks and everyone has the help and insulation and loving care that they want.”
Src: Sandra Lee Speaks Out on Split from Gov. Andrew Cuomo After 14 Years: 'One of the Greatest Loves of My Life'
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