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    Gov. Gavin Newsom returns to public eye after sudden absence sparks social media speculation

    by Phil Willon and Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times Nov 09, 2021 5 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For the past two weeks, Gov. Gavin Newsom has done something that’s very out of character: He’s stayed out of the public eye.

    That ended Tuesday when he took part in an economic summit in Monterey, the first official event he’s attended since Oct. 27 and marking the end of an absence that sparked several days of social media chatter and criticism.

    In his opening remarks at the event, Newsom blamed a grueling schedule for taking a toll on his family, telling the audience that his four young children staged “kind of an intervention” during a family dinner before he and his wife, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, were scheduled to travel to the United Nations Climate Conference in Scotland.

    “Mom and Dad missing Halloween. For them, it’s worse than ... missing Christmas,” Newsom said during an interview at the 2021 California Economic Summit sponsored by California Forward. “I

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