New photo Michelle Obama says Sandy Hook shooting changed Barack and she skipped vigil because of grief

Michelle Obama details one of the most devastating days of her husband's presidency in her memoir Becoming, which is set for release on Tuesday.

In an exclusive except from the book which appears on Apple News, Michelle reveals that she had just finished giving a speech when her assistant Tina informed her of the mass shooting in Connecticut.  

'Barack was in the Oval Office by himself. "He’s asking for you to come," she said. "Right away,"' said Michelle.

'My husband needed me. This would be the only time in eight years that he’d request my presence in the middle of a workday, the two of us rearranging our schedules to be alone together for a moment of dim comfort.' 

Michelle writes about watching as her husband then went on to address a grieving nation while she turned inward and focused on their daughters, Malia and Sasha.

'I watched him step forward, knowing that I myself wasn’t ready,' write Michelle.

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Coming together: Barack Obama (left delivering speech on Sandy Hook) summoned Michelle to the Oval Office after Sandy Hook shooting for the first and only time and embraced her silently writes his wife in Becoming (right) 

Inconsolable: 'I could see in his eyes how broken they’d left him, what this had done already to his faith,' writes Michelle of her husband after he had been briefed

Difficult time: 'I wasn’t sure what comfort I could ever give to someone whose six-year-old had been gunned down at school,' writes Michelle (above on anniversary of Sandy Hook in 2013)

Barack had just won reelection a month before the shooting, and Michelle writes that the information he learned in those initial briefings left him a changed man.

'I could see in his eyes how broken they’d left him, what this had done already to his faith,' writes Michelle. 

'He started to describe it to me but then stopped, realizing it was better to spare me the extra pain.'

Michelle details just how much children meant to Barack, and how much he enjoyed touring the White House with youngsters, holding babies and coaching Sasha's middle-school basketball team.

'The proximity of children made everything lighter for him. He knew as well as anyone the promise lost with those 20 young lives,' explains Michelle.

The two later made a point to meet daughters Sasha and Malia after school and hug the girls, who became the focus of Michelle's attention.

After that very private moment, Barack made a very public speech that would go on to become one of the most memorable in his two-term presidency. 

'Later that day, Barack held a press conference downstairs, trying to put together words that might add up to something like solace. He wiped away tears as news cameras clicked furiously around him, understanding that truly there was no solace to be had,' writes Michelle of the now iconic photos of her husband weeping at the podium. 

'The best he could do was to offer his resolve — something he assumed would also get taken up by citizens and lawmakers around the country — to prevent more massacres by passing basic, sensible laws concerning how guns were sold.'

Barack then flew off to Connecticut so he could be with the families of the town where this tragedy occured for a prayer vigil, commemorating the lives of the 20 first-grade students and six educators who lost their lives.

Michelle writes that she could not being herself to join her husband.  

'I was so shaken by it that I had no strength available to lend. I’d been First Lady for almost four years, and there had been too much killing already — too many senseless, preventable deaths and too little action,' writes Michelle. 

'I wasn’t sure what comfort I could ever give to someone whose six-year-old had been gunned down at school.'

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