A police report has revealed that cops once found the wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruzwith her head in hands beside a Texas expressway and was ‘a danger to herself’.
According to the 2005 report which DailyMail.comhighlighted in June, Heidi Cruz, 43, had walked from her home after dinner on August 22.She then sat down beside N. Mopac and Enfield in Austin, at around 10pm.
While Mrs Cruz has not spoken out publicly about the incident, an adviser to her senator husband said she had experienced ‘a brief bout of depression’ ten years ago in response to questions about the police report.
A concerned passerby had made the call after spotting a woman in a pink shirt was just ‘sitting in the area with her head in her hands.’
The police report, which was published heavily redacted, states that ‘Cruz related to me that she had been particularly [BLANK], for the past three weeks, and was currently [BLANK].
It continues to say that she was not on any type of medication and had not been drinking, except for ‘a couple of sips’ of a margarita with dinner an hour earlier.
After talking to Mrs Cruz police officer Joel Davidson, wrote in his report: ‘I believed she was a danger to herself.’
In comments made to BuzzFeed, Heidi Cruz’s husband, Sen. Ted Cruz, released a statement about a period of their lives that the couple has not previously discussed in public.
‘About a decade ago, when Mrs. Cruz returned from D.C. to Texas and faced a significant professional transition, she experienced a brief bout of depression,’ said Jason Miller, an adviser to the senator in the statement.
‘Like millions of Americans, she came through that struggle with prayer, Christian counseling, and the love and support of her husband and family.’
Mrs Cruz, who is highly successful lawyer in her own right and served under Condoleeza Rice in the National Security Council, is said to not want to speak about her recovery as she doesn’t want to show off her own happy ending, a source told BuzzFeed.
The power couple married in 2001 after meeting while campaigning for George W. Bush in Texas.
In 2000, she worked on Bush for President campaign, where she met her husband Ted Cruz. In 2003, she worked for the Bush administration as a top deputy to U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick, focusing on economic policy. She eventually became the director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in 2003. Cruz remembered liking her tenure with the Bush administration and found her work to be “personally fulfilling.”
After commuting to see her husband for a year, she left Washington DC in 2004 to be with her husband, who working as the Solicitor General for the State of Texas. Cruz did not see this as her giving up her career but merely as relocating, and she took her time to become use to the new environment, initially difficult since most of her family was in California and she had several colleagues in New York.
In 2005, she joined Goldman Sachs, serving as a private wealth manager and is currently the Region Head for the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs in Houston. Peter Conway, Cruz’s employer, assisted in her recruitment and was impressed by her being among the first to arrive and last to leave, remembering her doing well in a field of men. Conway would later recommend her to lead the office. Cruz used politics to gain common ground with her clients and deployed her husband to join her in meeting with potential investors. She had served as vice president for seven years before the promotion in 2013. She took a leave of absence without pay for her husband’s 2016 presidential campaign. Cruz later said the absence was the result of her belief that America was in danger.
They have two daughters together and Mrs Cruz has left her high powered job at Goldman Sachs to join her husband on the campaign trail in his bid to become the Republican nominee for this year’s presidential elections.
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