Washington, Apr 24 (UNI) In a rare and candid revelation, former First Lady Michelle Obama has addressed the speculation surrounding her absence from former President Donald Trump's second inauguration earlier this year, saying it took everything in her power to do the thing that she thought was right for her.

Speaking with her brother Craig Robinson and actress Taraji P. Henson on the April 23 episode of her podcast 'IMO', Obama revealed the quiet but powerful reasoning behind her absence; a conscious decision to honour her own boundaries. “People couldn't believe that I was saying no for any other reason, they had to assume that my marriage was falling apart,” Obama said of the headlines surrounding the inauguration and her husband's solo outings. “It took everything in my power to not do the thing that was perceived as right, but do the things that was right for me, that was a hard thing for me to do”, according a report by PEOPLE.