Barack Obama<\/strong> recently admitted that he and his wife, Michelle Obama<\/strong>, went through a rough patch.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, September 24, the former President of the United States, 64, sat down for an interview with historian David Olusoga<\/strong> at the O2 Arena in London and revealed that his eight years in the Oval Office caused problems between him and the former First Lady, 61.<\/p>\n \u201cI was digging myself out of the hole I found myself with Michelle,\u201d he confessed, per\u00a0 The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>. \u201cNow I\u2019m at about level ground.\u201d<\/p>\n In April, the A Promised Land<\/em> author made similar remarks while speaking to Hamilton College President Steven Tepper<\/strong>, explaining that his time serving the country from 2009 to 2017 had caused marital struggles, according to The Hill.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI was in a deep deficit with my wife,\u201d he stated. \u201cSo I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things.\u201d<\/p>\n The couple, who wed in 1992, has faced ongoing rumors<\/a> about their union, especially after Barack attended President Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2018s presidential inauguration in January solo.<\/p>\n However, the pair have been living life to the fullest together recently, as they were spotted aboard Steven Spielberg\u2019s<\/strong> superyacht in Portofino, Italy, earlier this week, per photos obtained by HOLA!<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n As Globe<\/em> previously reported,<\/a> in July, Barack appeared on an episode of Michelle\u2019s IMO<\/em> podcast<\/a> co-hosted by Craig Robinson<\/strong>, and the political figure shared he had gotten back into his sweetheart\u2019s good graces.<\/p>\n \u201cWait, you guys like each other?\u201d Robinson, 63, jokingly asked when the two kissed.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the rumor mill,\u201d Michelle quipped, to which Barack replied, \u201cShe took me back. It was touch and go for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Annabelle Gordon \u2013 CNP \/ MEGA Barack Obama recently admitted that he and his wife, Michelle Obama, went through a rough patch. On Wednesday, September 24, the former President of the United States, 64, sat down for an interview with historian David Olusoga at the O2 Arena in London and revealed that his eight years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2050418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003],"class_list":["post-2050417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Barack-Obama-Confesses-He-Had-Marital-Issues-With-Michelle-\u2018I.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2050418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/upiphotosthree023388-scaled.jpg\")