The former first lady Michelle Obama turned to her recent absence from political events and rumors of marital problems during a podcast released on Tuesday.

Obama said at the podcast “Work in Progress” with actress Sophia Bush that she now has the opportunity to control her own calendar and can now make “a choice for myself” reported Cnn.

“I could have made many of these decisions years ago, but I didn’t give me that freedom,” Michelle said, adding, “Maybe even as much as I let my children live their own lives, I use their lives as an excuse for why I couldn’t do anything.”

She continued: “And now it’s gone. And then now I have to look at mine – I get to look at my calendar, as I did this year, was a really big example of me, even looking at something that I had to do – you know without me doing.”

In addition, Michelle, in particular, jumped President Donald Trump’s second inauguration as well as the state’s funeral of former President Jimmy Carter in January.

She then continued to discuss the blame by saying no, and how her recent elections to move away from certain responsibilities raised rumors of a possible divorce from her husband, former President Barack Obama.

“I still find time for you know, keep talking, being out there in the world, working on projects. I’m still interested in girls’ education. We know the library will open in a year from now. Certain things I am and don’t do with the library,” Obama said.

She continued, “That’s the thing that we as women I think we are struggling with as disappointing people. I mean so much that people this year were, you know – they couldn’t even understand that I made a choice for myself that they had to assume that my husband and I stand out.”