
He may have been bound to a wheelchair and unable to speak, but Stephen Hawking had an incredibly complicated and complex love life that involved affairs and allegations of cheating and abuse.
A new book by Hawking’s old friend Leonard Mlodinow (a copy of which was obtained by the Daily Mail) reveals details of Hawking’s marriages and affairs and how the physicist, who communicated by a computer, demanded to be the center of attention, eclipsing most everyone in his life.
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