Jill Kelley, the Florida socialite who inadvertently exposed an affair between former CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer, has finally broken her silence in an interview with The Daily Beast.

Nearly three months after Petraeus stepped down, Kelley, 37, spoke to Washington bureau chief Howard Kurtz, calling the situation “very sad” and saying that the media spotlight has been tough on her family, which includes three young children.

However, Kelley gave few details on the contents of the emails that put her in the public spotlight in the first place. Of those emails, Kelley tells Kurtz that they didn’t tell her to stay away from Petraeus, as has been reported. Instead, she describes the emails as containing: “blackmail, extortion, threats.” Continue…