Was Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd Chip Pickering’s mistress? Leisha Pickering claims in a suit against Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd adultery by now ex-husband Chip Pickering. Leisha is suing the alleged mistress for alienation of affection claiming Byrd’s affair with her husband ended their marriage and his career.

Leisha’s claims Byrd originally “met and had a romantic relationship with [Chip] Pickering which ended prior to their college graduation”, “for a number of years met and rekindled her relationship with Pickering,” and that the ”extramarital relationship” carried on while he “was a United States Congressman prior to and while living in the well known C Street Complex in Washington, D.C.”

The couple separated in June of last year.

Chip Pickering has issued to press the following statement:

“I still believe it is in the best interest of our five boys if our differences are resolved privately and before the appropriate court and not in the media.”

No comment by Byrd.