"My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens ... it just does." In 1979 — while still married to Carol — he met Cindy at a cocktail ...

John McCain eldest daughter Sidney and first wife Carol get candid in John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls, an upcoming HBO documentary It's been almost 40 years since Sen. John McCain left his ...

Carol McCain did not respond to a request for an interview. About all she has ever said is this to McCain biographer Robert Timberg: “John was turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again.” ...

John McCain married his first wife, Carol, in 1965. She was, at the time, a single mother of two boys and would within their first year of marriage give birth to a daughter as well. Their life as ...

Carol, 70, also declined comment. But last week she acknowledged that McCain’s post-Vietnam randiness ruptured their own union. “My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40 ...

Senator John McCain, who is dying from a brain tumor ... I was pretty much blindsided and it broke my heart," Carol said. McCain, now 81 and fighting brain cancer at home in Arizona, was married ...

And McCain's 96-year-old mother, Roberta, says she never sued Carol. Others involved dispute those assertions. In the 1980 lawsuit, filed shortly after John and Carol McCain divorced, Roberta sued ...

John McCain married Carol Shepp in July 1965, but the Vietnam War would seperate them for years. They divorced in 1980. McCain had more luck in his second marriage with Cindy McCain (l.), ...

Carol and John McCain have remained good friends and those who’ve tried to get a negative word about him from her have inevitably failed. Carol openly backed him in his presidential campaigns.

John McCain was a realist ... It was another symptom, Carol McCain said, of a man who was in his 40s trying to act 25. McCain, who toyed with the idea of running for office in Florida, instead ...

Carol McCain did not respond to a request for an interview. About all she has ever said is this to McCain biographer Robert Timberg: “John was turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again.” ...

At the time it was really awful.” John McCain with first wife Carol When McCain married Carol Shepp in 1965 he adopted her sons, Doug and Andy, whom she had during her first marriage.