A controversial US Senate candidate announced a heartbreaking update months after sharing their struggle with infertility. 

'Just as the difficulty in accessing fertility treatment is overlooked, so too is the heartbreak of loss,' Graham Platner and his wife, Amy Gertner, said in a statement posted to Instagram on Monday. 

'We suffered that heartbreak recently, when we experienced a miscarriage.'

Despite the unimaginable pain the couple is going through, they decided to share their experience because of how often this tragedy happens during pregnancy.

'To anyone who has experienced a loss like this: you are not alone. We're with you —just as so many of you have been there for us,' the couple said. 

'We are deeply grateful for the community we've found through this struggle.'

Platner and his wife asked for grace and space at this time while they grieve and figure out the next steps.

The Senate candidate and his wife traveled to Norway at the beginning of this year for in vitro fertilization treatments, according to Centralmaine.com.

The couple went to a European country because IVF treatment was nearly five times cheaper than what they would have needed to pay in New England.

According to the outlet, Planter and his wife said treatment near their home would be around $25,000, while it was only $5,500 in Norway.

Platner, a veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, moved back to Maine in 2018 to work on an oyster farm started by one of his friends and eventually took over the business.

He is now running in the primary election against Maine's governor, Janet Mills, for a chance to square off with incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in November. 

The Democratic Senate hopeful recently came under fire for his Nazi tattoo after it was revealed he had an SS skull and bones inked on his chest while serving in the Marines.

In 2025, he was plunged into scandal when a video showed him drunk and shirtless, sporting a 'Totenkopf' on the left side of his chest, a symbol of the Nazi's paramilitary wing.

Platner released a statement last fall sharing that he had covered the tattoo, adding that he wasn't aware it was an SS symbol when he drunkenly visited a tattoo parlor with his Marine buddies in Split, Croatia, in 2007.

'I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that – and to insinuate that I did is disgusting. I already had the tattoo covered with a new design,' the Democratic candidate said.

In a video posted on X, Platner showed off the new tattoo.

'It's a Celtic knot with some imagery around dogs, because my wife Amy and I love dogs,' he said.

He went on to claim that the stories about his Nazi tattoo represent an establishment plot to torpedo his candidacy.

'[My donors] know that this is all nonsense. It is no surprise that these stories dropped within days of DC's chosen candidate getting into this race,' Platner told local station WGME in an interview.

Platner has also come under fire over his Reddit history, in which he asked why 'black people don't tip' and suggested that women who get raped in the Army should be careful about how much they have to drink.

'I made that comment in 2013. I had just come out of the infantry, which was, at the time, all male. I rarely interacted professionally with women in the service,' he told WGME last year.

Before the tattoo scandal, Platner was being touted as the Democratic blue-collar answer to MAGA.

Overflow crowds were packing his town halls — 500 in Ellsworth, 200 in Caribou — and a viral social media presence turned him into a national progressive folk hero.

Platner has stormed rural corners of the state long written off by Democrats, railing against 'oligarchy' and corporate greed while urging empathy for working-class voters.