Lunden Roberts — the mother of the 5-year-old granddaughter President Joe Biden has yet to meet — revealed that she considered suicide when pregnant with Hunter Biden’s baby while he was in the throes of serious drug addiction.
The 33-year-old spoke exclusively with Piers Morgan for a new episode of his show “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” premiering on YouTube Thursday at 3 p.m. ET.
President Biden’s son, now 54, initially refused to acknowledge the existence of Navy Joan, who was born in 2018 following his months-long affair with Roberts.
While, Roberts said, Hunter and the child have been “building a relationship” on Zoom, no one else in the Biden family, including the president and First Lady Jill Biden, have personally met the little girl.
She described a complicated relationship with the troubled first son and feeling “hurt” by a 2019 New Yorker profile in which he denied ever having sex with her.
“I can remember just reading it and just not having any words,” she told Morgan.
Roberts admitted she had suicidal thoughts after learning she was pregnant, because of all the drama surrounding her relationship with Hunter — but said she wouldn’t have taken her own life until after the baby was born.
She described her pregnancy as “one of the loneliest times of my life,” as her relationship with Hunter had ended after she told him she was pregnant.
“I went through some pretty dark times emotionally and mentally during that time,” Roberts said, adding that she thought about suicide.
“I knew that, as long as I was pregnant, I wasn’t going to do anything to myself, because that would harm my child. So I didn’t think I would do anything to myself while I was pregnant. But I would feel that, after the pregnancy, would it be better for my daughter and for Hunter and everyone else if I wasn’t here? Because it seemed like a scandal, and a burden is what I felt like at those times.”
Roberts, who is set to be called as a witness in Hunter’s ongoing federal gun trial, met him in 2017 at DC gentlemen’s club Mpire, where she danced under the stage name “Dallas.”
She was placed on the Biden scion’s company payroll for nine months during an affair conducted while Hunter was also in a relationship with his widowed sister-in-law, Hallie.
In his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” Hunter claimed he had “no recollection of our encounter.”
Roberts admitted being fascinated when she met Hunter in 2018, although she knew he was having an affair with Hallie at the same time and struggling with a serious addiction to crack.
“He had a demon on his back,” she told Morgan. “He was obviously suffering from addiction during that time. But he had my attention. I was intrigued.”
In the interview, Roberts gave Hunter credit for not suggesting she get an abortion after she told him she was pregnant.
Roberts’ book, “Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden,” will be published in August.
According to her Instagram account, she has been working at her family’s gun store, Rob Roberts Custom Gun Works, in Batesville, Ark.
Roberts seemed forgiving of Hunter for, at one point, having the “audacity” to ask if Navy was really his. She battled a lengthy legal struggle with him, finally settled one year ago, so he would acknowledge paternity and provide child support.
But Roberts said she has always given the man she calls “Hunt” a “lot of grace.”
“I feel like Hunter is one of those people that have always had great potential and he’s an amazing person to know,” she told Morgan. “I always hoped that that demon and that addiction wouldn’t just pull him down because I saw it had it sank its claws in him. I always hoped that he was getting help.”
Roberts, Roberts, a former college basketball star from Arkansas, said she doesn’t want to see Hunter go to prison and hopes his father would pardon him if it came to that.
She is hopeful that Hunter and Navy will meet in person soon.
“The world knows Hunter has a lot on his plate right now,” Roberts told Moran. “I think that that needs to be his main focus. The rest can come after.
“Navy is well aware. She knows that her father is very busy right now and he’s got a lot of things going on. She’s waited five years. She can wait a couple more months.”
