It was at a time when Hunter Biden needed someone to talk to, so he vented to his uncle, James Biden, President Joe Biden’s younger brother, about his money woes and his relationship with his family — including his brother’s widow — in text messages that were revealed in IRS whistleblower documents, according to the New York Post.

The text messages reveal that Hunter, now 53 had reached out to James in December 2018. He’d told his uncle that his money was “all gone” and he couldn’t afford living expenses or school tuition for his three daughters.

“I can work when I’m in NYC all day every day for the next 3 months,” Hunter told James. “But I can’t pay alimony w/o Dad or tuitions or for food and gas. Really it’s all gone.” He added: “I can go make it up in 15/20 days I’m sure, but he’s basically made it clear that he’s not paying alimony b/c Mom made clear that she won’t do it.”

In all likelihood, Hunter was quite close with his brother Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware, and when he died of brain cancer at age 46, Hunter struggled and relapsed into alcohol addiction. On the first anniversary of Beau’s death, Hunter was further lost in a spiral of deepening depression and addiction to crack cocaine.

He married Kathleen Buhle in 1993, but a year or so after his brother’s death, he began a relationship with his widow, Hallie Biden and while their controversial relationship was outed in 2017 the two remained together until 2019, SheKnows reports.

“Hallie won’t allow me to be at the house or lend me or pay me back any money,” Hunter tells James in the next texts. “Ashley [Hunter’s sister] moves into momoms [sic] house after I told dad that I would move in there. … That night I tell dad I want to probably stay in the areaand [sic] specifically I wanted to live by you and teach my course at Penn and maybe develop another one.”

Obviously, Hunter was facing a serious struggle while trying to deal with grief and serious problems with addiction, likely stemming, in part, from that grief.

And he addressed his relationship with his brother’s widow in 2021 in an interview on CBS’s Sunday Morning.

“I think people were confused by it and I understand that. I really do,” he said.

“To me, it’s not something that is difficult to explain because it came out of a real overwhelming grief that we both shared and we were together and trying to do the right thing,” he said at the time. “And that grief turned into a hope for a love that maybe could replace what we lost and it didn’t work.”

But at the time, Hunter was also still legally married to Buhle, with whom he shares three daughters — Naomi, 29, Finnegan, 23, and Maisy, 22. Buhle and Biden finalized their divorce in 2017.

“I made a lot of decisions that I probably shouldn’t have made,” Hunter told CBS. “There was a lot more compassion and understanding for the people that knew me, but it was a horrible time.”

Undoubtedly as this case moves forward, more will be revealed, but what all of this information really does, is make Hunter Biden appear more human as he faces a possible trial next year in connection with allegedly lying about his drug use while purchasing a handgun in 2018.

While the younger Biden has obviously made a few missteps along the way, these pale in comparison to the missteps made by former President Donald Trump and his adult sons Don Jr. and Eric, especially in regard to the Trump Organization, which a judge in New York has now found liable for fraud.

Maybe it’s time to allow Hunter Biden a little bit of grace.