CA state treasurer withdraws divorce papers filed after wife's drug&affair exposure (With Pics)

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer has had a change of heart about divorcing his wife, who recently completed a rehabilitation stint after getting caught up in a career-ending drug and sex scandal. Lockyer, 71, one of California's most powerful Democrats, and his wife of 10 years, Nadia, 'have agreed to try and reconcile' and 'work things out,' according to the treasurer’s spokesman Tom Dresslar.

The treasurer filed for divorce last July citing irreconcilable differences with Nadia Lockyer, the 41-year-old former Alameda County supervisor who resigned in disgrace last April over her extramarital affair and drug abuse. Mrs Lockyer crashed her car into a pole and a tree the day her husband broke the news about his decision to divorce her and file for joint custody of their son, San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Two months later, the married mother of one was arrested and charged with drug violations and child endangerment after being found in possession of meth at a relative's home in Orange County, where she had been staying with the couple's nine-year-old son. Lockyer has since completed a 180-day residential drug treatment program, prompting a judge last week to allow her to see her son, Diego, under the supervision of her husband, the boy's aunt or another adult.

The Lockyers’ child had been living with his father in Hayward while his mother was in treatment for her addiction problems. 'He’s proud of the progress she had made in her treatment, and they are both looking forward and not backward,' Dressler told San Jose Mercury of Mr Lockyer's outlook on his wife's condition.

Mrs Lockyer's attorney, Allan Stokke, last week said she is 'doing just fine' and that the judge has been pleased with her progress. Nadia Lockyer issued a statement Thursday through her attorney, which said in part: 'I thank my husband and family for their unwavering support. 'Bill and I agree reconciliation would be best for Diego and for us, and we're committed to reaching that goal.' Nadia Lockyer's troubles began in February 2012 when she reported being sexually assaulted by a former boyfriend at a hotel in Newark, New Jersey.

The 41-year-old, once a rising star in Northern California government, later admitted to having a long-term affair with Stephen Chikhani, whom she met while in a drug treatment program years earlier. Mr Lockyer, the state's former attorney general and current treasurer, helped his much younger wife with $1.6million in campaign funding when she won her supervisor seat in 2010. She resigned from the seat in April following a series of bizarre public incidents that she blamed on drug and alcohol dependency.