Jill Biden is still suspicious of one of the women who testified about Hunter Biden's drug use during his 2024 gun trial as she writes in her forthcoming memoir about the substance abuse photos that still haunt her.

The Daily Mail obtained a copy of View from the East Wing, which comes out Tuesday, in which the former First Lady chronicled the days surrounding the trial in great detail. 

While never naming the 'girlfriend,' Jill Biden wrote about the testimony given by 'a woman I'd never seen before' who said she had stayed with Hunter at hotels in 2018 and bought him drugs. 

That woman was Zoë Kestan, who met Hunter in December 2017 at New York's Vivid Cabaret, a gentlemen's club where she performed. 

During the trial, prosecutors showed the jury photographs Kestan took of crack pipes, including an image of Hunter in a bathtub holding one of them. 

'I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but I was sitting there thinking, Do drug users often get their fellow drug users to pose with drugs?' Biden wrote. 

'She had taken well-framed, well-lit pictures of the drug scale, of the drugs, of her and Hunter together with the drugs, almost as if she was filming a nature documentary,' the former First Lady mused. 

She didn't reveal then-President Joe Biden's views on the gun trial, which revolved around Hunter's October 2018 purchase of a handgun and whether he lied about being addicted to drugs on the form. 

In the book, Jill Biden admitted that the 'horror of addiction' was a 'steep learning curve for me.' 

'Even now, I can barely say the words, "My son was a drug addict." Barely,' she said. 

She revealed the Bidens often wouldn't use the word when identifying what plagued Hunter, who became a crack cocaine addict in the aftermath of his brother Beau's 2015 death. 

The former First Lady also admitted she gets emotional when seeing items that remind her of Hunter's worst days.

'The other day, I was cleaning out a drawer and found one of Hunter's lighters, and I was instantly triggered,' she wrote. 'How many times had I seen him using it, obsessively smoking cigarettes?'  

Hunter marked seven years of sobriety on Monday. 

'Many people have asked why I never took on addiction as a cause as First Lady,' she wrote. 'I couldn't.' 

She said that while she had empathy for addicts and their family members, 'I was raised to stay stoic and contained.' 

'Regardless of how bad it looked, I believed that Hunter would get it together on his own,' she said.   

Unlike other parts of her memoir, Dr Biden treats the days surrounding Hunter's gun trial like diary entries - even sharing her official travel schedule, which included two official trips to France amid her days spent in the Wilmington courtroom. 

She recalled how prosecutors used the audiobook version of Hunter's 2021 memoir Beautiful Things. 

'In the section they shared, Hunter was on the road, strung out, and he got lost driving through the California desert. An owl flew overhead - he felt it was there to guide his car - and he followed the owl to where he needed to be,' Biden wrote. 

'Beau, I thought. Whether the owl was real or a hallucination, I believed that the spirit of Beau was at work trying to guide his brother to safety,' the former First Lady said. 

She said the excerpt prompted Biden's daughter, Ashley, to start crying in the courtroom. 

Biden said her job was to keep Ashley and Hunter's wife, Melissa, calm - though Melissa still got caught on camera accosting former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler, who was attending proceedings. 

The former First Lady didn't name Ziegler in her book - and rarely used President Donald Trump's name when writing about her husband's political rival. 

She did write candidly about her feelings toward Hallie Biden - Beau's widow, who then dated Hunter at the height of his crack cocaine addiction. 

The former First Lady expressed happiness that Hallie had found a new love.

Hallie - who was also called to testify - married John Hopkins Anning amid Hunter's gun trial. 

'I couldn't bring myself to attend, but I went over to say goodbye before they left for the wedding weekend,' Biden recalled. 

'I was happy for them, but I found it overwhelming to see her starting a new life with someone else. In my mind, she would always be Beau's wife, no matter her new marriage or what had occurred with Hunter,' she said. 

On June 11, Hunter was convicted on all three felony charges related to the illegal purchase of a firearm. 

He never faced sentencing, as President Biden granted him a sweeping pardon in December 2024, after Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, lost the presidential election to Trump. 

'It was hard for me not to think about the role politics played in the matter going to trial in the first place,' Biden wrote. 

'Attorney General Merrick Garland oversaw the Justice Department in its handling of Hunter's case. In the end, it felt like in working so hard to be impartial, we guaranteed that Hunter would meet the worst possible legal fate,' she said. 

'Joe might have gone too far, in my opinion, to show that his family was being treated with complete impartiality,' Biden added.

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