Hunter Biden has opened up about his family staging an intervention for him following years of drug abuse.
President Biden's son recently sat down for two interviews with CBS in order to promote his new memoir, called Beautiful Things. The network has today - Friday, April 2 - released two excerpts of the respective interviews.
In the first, scheduled to air on Monday, April 5, Hunter recalls the moment his family staged an intervention last year amid the US presidential election.
After battling with substance abuse for years, Hunter explains how his father him down the driveway of their Delaware home in order to stop him from getting in his car.
Speaking in his first sit-down interview for months, Biden tells CBS' Anthony Mason that his daughters witnessed the entire thing - and even blocked his car door to prevent their father from driving away.
Hunter says: "I tried to go to my car, and my girls literally blocked the door to my car, and said: 'Dad, Dad, please. You can't. No, no.'"
His "girls" are the daughters Hunter shares with ex-wife Kathleen - 20-year-old Maisy, 21-year-old Finnegan, and 27-year-old Naomi.
Recalling how his then-77-year-old father embraced him, Hunter says: "[He] grabbed me — gave a bear hug, and he said — and just cried, and said — 'I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Please,'" Hunter said.
Despite not revealing an exact date of the intervention or what drugs he was taking at the time, Hunter tells Mason that he contemplated lying to his dad in order to go and get "another hit".
"I thought: "I need to figure out a way to tell him that I'm gonna do something, so that I can go take another hit," Hunter says.
"It's the only thing I could think. Literally. That's how powerful. I don't know of a force more powerful than my family's love, except addiction."
An emotion Biden added that the intervention was the hardest part of his memoir to write.
Hunter Biden was also questioned on CBS' Sunday Morning show whether or not the water-damaged MacBook Pro dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019 - which has since become the center of a leaked email scandal - was indeed his.
"I really don’t know what the answer is, that’s the truthful answer," Hunter tells correspondent Tracy Smith.
In a clip released on Friday (April 2), Biden then adds: "I have no idea."
Smith then asks if the laptop could have been his, to which the President's son replies: "Absolutely.
"Certainly, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked, it could be that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me."
Hunter Biden's sit-down interview with CBS Sunday Morning airs April 4.
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