Ew, Dad!
Ew, Dad! That’s gross!
With his two young daughters just feet away from him, Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz told the bizarre story of how he watched porn with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
The Texas senator, his wife Heidi and their daughters — 8-year-old Caroline and 5-year-old Catherine — all took the stage at a CNN town hall Wednesday night, which also featured a strange story about Cruz's love of canned soup.
Before discussing his relationship with his wife and Caroline’s upcoming birthday party, Cruz discussed how he once had to watch porn as part of his duties as a law clerk for the Supreme Court, a strange tale he first recounted in his 2015 memoir.
“The chapter begins with me watching pornography on the Internet with Sandra Day O’Connor, which was a bit of a bizarre experience,” he told Anderson Cooper, adding that the court librarians prepared a lesson for the justices and their clerks to demonstrate how the abundance of Internet porn ahead of a case considering the regulation of such graphic material.
Ted Cruz, his wife Heidi and their daughters spoke at a CNN town hall Wednesday night.
The librarians switched off Internet filters and quickly found hardcore videos by searching the term “cantaloupe,” he said.
“And Justice O’Connor — I still remember — she leaned forward, and she squinted, and she said, ‘Oh, my!’” Cruz continued.
Little Caroline and Catherine were seated in the first row of the audience as their dad told the cringe-worthy story.
The retelling wasn’t the only awkward moment: Cruz’s wife and daughters had more strange stories to share about the family patriarch.
Heidi Cruz told the audience how her husband perplexingly bought 100 cans of soup after they returned from their honeymoon because he was afraid she wouldn’t cook.
“I was completely shocked to see that he arrived back at our apartment with literally 100 cans of Campbell’s Chunky soup,” she said. “We had a tough conversation about it. I said, ‘You don’t buy 100 of anything, much less canned soup. We can’t do this. I’ll be making things.’ He said, ‘No, I know you. You won’t be making things.’”