Graham Platner’s wife slams sexting reports as ‘shameful’

Amy Gertner, the wife of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, denounced media coverage of reports that he sent sexually explicit messages to multiple women, saying the press should focus on health care, education and childcare. Her video followed new reporti

Amy Gertner didn’t wait for the news cycle to settle. On Saturday, hours after new reporting about her husband’s sex life surfaced, the wife of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner went on X to criticize the coverage as “shameful” and to argue that voters deserve something better than gossip.

In a video posted after The Wall Street Journal broke the news. Gertner said she was “really angry. disappointed” and “find[s] it really shameful” that “a group of media outlets and people” were willing to spread what she called gossip instead of discussing “real issues that Graham is running on. like healthcare and education and childcare.” She insisted that she and Platner have a “great marriage. ” and said their relationship has been shaped by what she described as hard. overlapping challenges.

“Being married is hard; being newly married is hard; being newly married and going through infertility is hard,” Gertner said. “Being newly married going through infertility and a Senate campaign is hard. I don’t even know if I have the right words to describe what we’ve been going through.”

She said they’ve had help navigating those difficulties, including a mutual counselor and individual therapists each of them sees separately. Then she returned to the central point of her message: that the public focus should not be on her private life.

“I admire the f*ck out of him. So when there are news articles about our marriage, it’s just extra sh*tty,” Gertner added. “Can I say that online? I hope I can.”

Her video landed after reporting that said Platner’s sexting became known to the campaign early in their marriage. The Wall Street Journal reported that Gertner told Platner’s campaign about sexually explicit messages she discovered in the spring of 2025. It said the timing mattered: anonymous sources told the Journal that in late August. as some aides were conducting opposition research on their own candidate. Gertner disclosed the texts to a campaign aide “to make sure they didn’t pose a risk to her husband’s nascent campaign.”.

The story also arrived amid renewed scrutiny of Platner’s online history. After the Journal report. a Daily Wire reporter. Tim Rice. posted on X about Platner’s profile on Kik and described it as the “predator’s paradise” app. Rice’s post said Platner’s Kik profile “features a photo of him topless in a towel. ” showing off tattoos. and claimed the Kik username was “almost identical” to the one Platner uses on Instagram and Reddit accounts—accounts Rice said had “caused a lot of problems for this campaign.” Rice’s post included a profile picture of a towel-clad. shirtless Platner taking a selfie; his face was not visible. but several tattoos were.

Those newer claims feed into older controversies that have swamped the Senate bid. Platner previously drew attention for an image on his chest: an alleged Nazi SS “Totenkopf” symbol. which he has since covered up. Platner denied it was a Nazi tattoo. saying it was instead a skull and crossbones tattoo he got while serving in the military.

Additional unsettling content from Platner’s Reddit activity has also been uncovered during the campaign, alongside other items that have dogged his candidacy.

For Gertner, the question wasn’t whether the reporting exists. It was what the reporting turns into—what it displaces, and who it sidelines. In her video. she pointed directly at the issue she believes should define the race: health care. education and childcare. not her husband’s behavior. not their marriage. and not the private details now circulating publicly.

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