BEFORE Georgia gubernatorial candidate Herschel Walker married Julie Blanchard, he was married to Cindy DeAngelis Grossman.
Walker and Grossman were married for nearly two decades when they divorced in 2002.
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Who is Cindy DeAngelis Grossman?
Cindy DeAngelis Grossman has primarily stayed out of the spotlight with the exception of her public marriage to former NFL player-turned-politician Herschel Walker.
Grossman attended the University of Georgia where she met Walker and the college sweethearts were married in 1983.
Walker reportedly suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, which Grossman claimed surfaced during their marriage.
She told ABC News in 2008 that she didn't know what Walker was going through at the time as he shifted from a football career to ballet and the military.
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In Walker's tell-all book, Breaking Free, he revealed he suffers from a mental illness, but it wasn't until he saw a therapist that they could identify the problem.
Walker's therapist, Jerry Mungadze, told the outlet that he had met Walker's alternate personalities during their therapy sessions.
"They will come out and say, I am so-and-so. I'm here to tell you Herschel is not doing too good ... When he finishes, it would just disappear back in him, and Herschel comes out," Mungadze said.
Grossman recalled an incident while she was pregnant and claimed her then-husband told her: "Close the door. I am having bad thoughts. I am thinking I am going to hurt you."
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After the release of his book, Grossman told ABC News that Walker's revelation "makes perfect sense, because each personality has a different interest.
"This one has an interest in ballet, this one has an interest in the Marines, this one had an interest [in the] FBI, this one had an interest in sports," she said.
Grossman said she had noticed different sides or traits of her husband, adding: "It's hard to explain, but even his physical countenance would change.
"There was also a very sweet, lovable [personality]. That's the one he told me I married. He told me I didn't marry Herschel."
However, Grossman claimed there were far darker moments in their marriage.
"We were talking and the next thing I knew, he just kind of raged and he got a gun and put it to my temple," she claimed.
She said she came to believe that it was one of Walker's alternate personalities who were in control during that moment.
"There was somebody there that was evil," she said.
Walker told the outlet he had no memory of the event, nor does he remember winning the Heisman Trophy in 1982.
Although he said he doesn't remember the events, Walker didn't deny doing it. "No, I don't remember that," he said, adding: "but I probably did it."
Why did Cindy say about Herschel Walker in a campaign ad?
Grossman appeared in a campaign ad against her ex-husband who is running for a US Senate seat.
The 30-second ad was produced by The Republican Accountability Project PAC and shows footage from Walker's early football career.
A narrator voices over the footage, asking: "Do you think you know Herschel Walker? Well, think again."
The ad spins to an interview with Grossman who claims her ex-husband attempted to harm her during and after their marriage.
"His eyes would become very evil ... The guns and knives. I got into a few choking things with him," Grossman says in the ad.
She continues: "The first time he held the gun to my head, he held the gun to my temple and said he was gonna blow my brains out," she says in the ad.
The clip came from Grossman's 2008 interview with ABC News and concluded after her comment.
In the final ten seconds, before the ad fades to black, it says: "Republican voters against Walker."
Walker called the ad "dirty" in a post on Twitter.
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Do Cindy and Herschel have kids together?
Over the years, Walker has fathered four kids, three sons and one daughter.
He welcomed his son, Christian Walker, with Grossman in 1999. The rest of his kids he reportedly welcomed with other women.
“I have four children. Three sons and a daughter. They’re not ‘undisclosed’ — they’re my kids. I support them all and love them all,” Walker told The Daily Beast.
“I’ve never denied my children, I confirmed this when I was appointed to the President’s Council on Sports Fitness and Nutrition, I just chose not to use them as props to win a political campaign.
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"What parent would want their child involved in garbage, gutter politics like this?”
Over the years, the Walker children have often stayed out of the spotlight.
