Patrick Clancy’s Wife Defends Their Relationship Amid Lindsay’s Murder Trial, Says Story Was ‘Twisted’

Patrick Clancy‘s wife, Rachel Danis, is finally speaking for herself after months of public scrutiny surrounding her marriage.

In a new preview of the couple’s upcoming 60 Minutes interview, Danis, 37, pushed back directly against the speculation that has followed the couple since Patrick’s ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, went on trial for killing their three children.

“I don’t understand how the story’s been so twisted,” Danis said in the clip CBS News released on Friday, September 18.

“But I would hope people know that Pat is, as I said before, the most selfless father and supportive partner,” she added.

Danis also described how their relationship began. “I was just a girl that met a guy running in Central Park on a really cold Saturday,” she explained. “And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”

Danis is a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist with RMA New York and an assistant clinical professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, per her LinkedIn profile. As Globe previously reported, she and Patrick married in April after meeting in New York City.

Their marriage became public during jury selection for Lindsay’s murder trial this summer.

While Patrick and Lindsay divorced after the deaths of their three children, Patrick has continued to show support for his ex-wife throughout the ordeal. He was the trial’s first witness, taking the stand in July, and he publicly forgave Lindsay in a statement shared through the family’s GoFundMe shortly after the killings.

“I want to ask all of you that you find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have,” he wrote at the time, making clear that forgiveness was a choice he’d made for himself.

Lindsay, 36, is charged in the January 2023 killings of the three children she shared with Patrick: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Her defense argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

The trial ended in a mistrial on September 4 after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek another trial.

Patrick and Danis’ full interview with Ross Douthat airs Sunday, September 20, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+.