00:00J.D. Vance's wife Usha addressed divorce speculation after being seen without her wedding ring.
00:05Usha Vance's spokesperson made a rare statement denying speculation that the second lady of the United States is divorcing her husband, Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:15Split rumors between Usha and J.D. began to swirl after she didn't wear her wedding ring during her visit to Camp Lejeune, a military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on November 19th.
00:27Usha made the ringless public appearance alongside First Lady Melania Trump.
00:32But according to her spokesperson, Usha, who shares three kids with J.D., simply forgot to wear her wedding ring.
00:38Usha is a mother of three young children who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes, the spokesperson said in a statement to People.
00:48Usha and J.D. tied the knot in 2014 after meeting at Yale Law School.
00:52The recent split rumors were also fueled by J.D.'s hug with Erica Kirk at a Turning Point USA event last month, which also went viral.
01:02Kirk, the widow of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed in September, gave the politician a warm embrace on stage, prompting chatter on social media.
01:13She also told the crowd,
01:14No one will ever replace my husband, but I do see some similarities of my husband in J.D., in Vice President J.D. Vance. I do.
01:24Erica previously praised Usha for her support at Charlie's memorial service, sharing,
01:29She told me,
01:30You will get through these 15 minutes, and the next 15 minutes after that.
01:34Usha, I don't think you realize it then, but those words were exactly what I needed to hear.
01:39J.D. also caused controversy in October when he said that he hoped Usha, who was raised in a Hindu family, would eventually convert to his Catholic faith,
01:48and revealed he, quote,
01:50Feels bad for dragging his Hindu wife to Mass every Sunday.
01:54I felt kind of bad, like, oh, you didn't sign up to marry a weekly churchgoer, and are you okay with this?
02:00And she was sort of more than okay with it, and that was a big part of, I guess, the confirmation that this was the right thing for me.
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