Herschel Walker’s campaign publicly announced this week that the candidate for the Republican Senate had three children through women to whom he was not married along with a son from his former wife. The admission of the Georgia GOP nominee did follow a report on Tuesday in the Daily Beast that Walker had fathered a son close to a decade back.
The Beast also went on to report that they had confirmed the identity of this child as well as the mother. Interestingly, it was also discovered that the mother had sued the nominee in order to obtain a declaration of paternity along with child support. According to the official report, Walker had been paying child support since 2014.
Herschel Walker Has Three Children Born Out Of Wedlock
As it turns out, Herschel Walker has two more children born through two different women. The Daily Beast went on to publish another article on Thursday which claimed that Walker had birthed two more children who were unknown to the public eye. This included a 13-year-old son by a woman as well as an adult daughter who was born to another woman while Walker was still a college student.
Herschel Walker will be going against Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is one of the key Senate races in the country this week and has frequently brought up his son Christian Walker, the son he and his ex-wife had raised together along with Walker’s current wife. Ironically, Walker has often publicly criticized absentee fathers– especially in black families.
Speaking to conservative activist Charlie Kirk in an interview in 2020, Herschel Walker mentioned that he wanted to apologize to the African American community because a home without a father was quite a big problem. He also stated that even if one had to leave their woman behind, there was never a reason to leave the child.
