In Touch Exclusive Interview: 
 
 Inside Larry King & Shawn Southwick's twisted relationship 
 
 After 13 years together,andare reportedly considering a divorce after Larry had an alleged affair with Shawn’s younger sister, Shannon Engemann, and Shawn slept with their kids’ baseball coach for a year and tried to have a baby with her lover through in vitro fertilization. In an exclusive interview with In Touch, the baseball coach, Hector Penate says Larry knew about their steamy trysts but didn’t even care because he was so in love with Shannon. “I still think to this day that Larry is in love with Shawn’s sister,” he explains.Hector admits that he quickly fell “in love” with Shawn after they met in 2007. Two-and-a-half weeks later, they started sleeping together, although Shawn has denied the affair with Hector. “Larry was in New Hampshire and I was training the kids,” Hector reveals to In Touch. “Then she made a couple of hints to me that she was ready to go. We were in the car and we just started kissing.” From there, says Hector, the two spent more and more time together — and they even vacationed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, together with her sons Chance and Cannon. Their physical chemistry was intense, Hector adds: “We had sex in Larry’s bed — a lot. I felt like it was my house.” Shawn also bought Hector extravagant presents. “She paid my rent, she bought me clothes and a BMW 7 Series.” But the biggest gift she almost gave him? A baby. “She wanted to have a little girl with me. She was trying to fertilize her eggs to do that.” If that’s not strange enough, Larry co-signed Hector’s Studio City, Calif., apartment. “She controlled him,” he says. “He just sat there and signed it.”And even though Larry is approaching 80, Hector says that the newsman has an active libido and makes this shocking claim: “He’s a [sex] freak,” Hector says, adding that he believes Larry was sleeping with both Shawn and Shannon. 

 Hector Penate Reveals Shocking Details of His Alleged Affair with Larry King's Wife 
 
 In an Entertainment Tonight/In Touch exclusive, Hector Penate, the man who claims he had an affair with Larry King's wife Shawn, reveals shocking details of their alleged liaisons, from having sex in Larry's bed to talk of marriage! 
 
 "We were together pretty much when Larry was filming his show; that's when we spent most of our time together," the 31-year-old Penate tells our own Samantha Harris. "It was tough because she wouldn't want to meet outside the house." 
 
 Penate says he first met Shawn, 50, and her family when he worked at a baseball birthday party for Larry and Shawn's son Cannon at Dodger Stadium. The CNN talk-show host hired Penate to train both of his young sons and coach their baseball team. Penate claims that Shawn began a flirtation less than two weeks after he was hired. 
 
 "Larry was out of town and I showed up at the kids' game … and then she got a little flirtatious with me, like I could feel her coming on to me," says Penate. "I'm a man and I felt I had to do something." 
 
 Penate says that the two often had sex in Larry's bed, sometimes while his CNN talk show was playing on the TV. Penate also says he fell in love with Shawn and wanted to marry her. 
 
 "She'd tell me, 'Hector, don't worry, he's going to die soon, so just stick around,'" he claims. "Nobody wants to hear that." 
 
 Penate says the affair came to an end when he told Shawn's mother about the tryst, and he claims that Shawn has not spoken to him since. 
 
 "Now that this came out, I have to say my side of the story, because if I don't speak for myself, who [will]?" 
 
 Watch ET for more of Samantha's interview with Hector Penate, and get more details on this story in the new issue of In Touch, on newsstands Friday! 
 
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– Wait, so Shawn Southwick wasn’t crazy in love with husband Larry King? At least, that’s the shocking impression given by her alleged lover’s interview with Entertainment Tonight: “She'd tell me, 'Hector, don't worry, he's going to die soon, so just stick around,” Hector Penate says. Rubbing salt in that wound, they often slept together in Larry’s bed, he tells In Touch—and sometimes Larry’s show was playing in the background.