WINFREY: Pilot's wife Leslie was married 14 years
to a pilot before finding out about his
double life with a flight attendant
living in the same town.
So this was very familiar to you. Yeah.
LESLIE: Hi, Oprah.
WINFREY: Hi, Leslie.
LESLIE: Oh, there's so much to say.
I think that probably I could relate with Kathryn quite a
bit about--I was totally devastated when I
found out that my husband was having an affair.
WINFREY: I first noticed by his behavior and,
through discovery, found out many things.
He staged a cat burglary and his demeanor in our home.
WINFREY: He staged a cat burglary in your house.
LESLIE: Correct.
WINFREY: And stole what?
LESLIE: All of my jewelry in the middle of the night.
The police were called, footprints, criminologists.
His behavior changed, and that was my first clue.
I started getting clues after that.
WINFREY: But you didn't know he was the cat burglar?
LESLIE: Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
WINFREY: And he stole your jewelry--What?
--to give to her.
LESLIE: Actually, I don't know why.
I really don't know why he stole it, to this day.
I know I cowered in the closet for many days.
I was scared.
WINFREY: And he went off to fly.
So it was devastating for me.
And, of course, at that time, I had no clue that it was him.
WINFREY: And just like in the book,
"Pilot's Wife," he met his mistress in the air.
Is that true?
LESLIE: Correct.
And I believe they knew each other for about 10 years. And...
WINFREY: That's got to be hard.
LESLIE: It was really, really difficult because this was the person I chose
to spend the rest of my life with and we had a son together.
WINFREY: And did you--you--
you started to suspect something was off with
the behavior with the cat burglar--that's
the first time you...
LESLIE: Yes. If--he wasn't there.
He went to fly. He could've been.
He was seen. But things just didn't add up.
And then he said he could get some of the jewelry back.
LESLIE: And I might have been a naive housewife,
but I wasn't that naive.
I know if somebody steals your jewelry,
you're not going to be able to go
through the whole United States
or the world and find it. So-
WINFREY: But he said,
`I might be able to get some of it back.'
LESLIE: Yeah.
WINFREY: After he saw how much some of it
meant to you--is that what happened?
LESLIE: I think--yeah, I think that--
that might be some of the reason.
LESLIE: But then as time went a--along, I had gone out of
town for the weekend, and I came back and
found this same--in our home--with my son,
LESLIE: I came back, and he was on a trip and
he'd left me a card that said, `To Sunshine,'
like he always called me, which was
inscribed in the wedding band that he stole--
`To Sunshine with love,' which was also what he called her.
LESLIE: So every time he would ca--I'd
call the airport or to his hotel room,
he would always answer, `Hi, Sunshine.'
But I found out later that all the cards
that he wrote her were exactly the same. It was...
WINFREY: What about the time
you came home, and she had used--this
--I know this is...
LESLIE: Oh, oh.
WINFREY: ...a small thing, but a huge thing.
You came home and...
LESLIE: This is--that was probably the hardest...
WINFREY: Yeah.
LESLIE: ...the hardest for me, because I came home...
WINFREY: Listen to this, you-all.
LESLIE: ...and I had no idea about another woman at this point.
And I came home, and in the dishwasher were dishes--
two sets of each type of dish.
LESLIE: And something made me to--made me want
to explore further.
So I went into my room, and, of course,
the bed--bedding was not what
it would be, but also the bathroom,
the bathtub had like the soap I use,
but it was a new bar, I hadn't opened it, with
a ring in it, and it was a female--it
was from The Body Shop, something that I would use.
LESLIE: And I continued to search the house,
and the stereo had music like jazz or Sade
and just things that I really liked,
and I--but then I felt as though there was
me around there, but I wasn't there,
like he was using--I just could tell.
LESLIE: So I went farther, and I did find remnants
of the exact same meal that he gave to me--
cooked for me on our first date
in the trash, along with mail addressed
with both of their--both of their names
at an apartment address for Bride's magazine,
as well as a receipt for my gynecologist
that I had gone to.
WINFREY: So he took her to the same gynecologist.
He made her the same meals.
He had her in your house, using your body soap--
yeah--which makes me want to
just--that's the worst.
I think that's the worst.
LESLIE: I was really devastated by that.