This Friday, the world will hear from David Smith again, 16 years after his ex-wife, Susan Smith, drowned their sons, Michael and Alex, in John D. Long Lake in Union County.People Magazine will run a multi-page spread featuring David Smith’s current life, including his children, Savannah and Nicholas.In the article, Smith speaks candidly about suicidal thoughts and struggling to deal with the emotions he felt toward Susan Smith, who’s currently serving a life prison term in Greenwood County for murdering the boys. David Smith reveals the long experience of coming to forgive her, culminating in a moment he experienced around the year 2000.“One night I sat on the couch, took a deep breath and said, ‘OK, I forgive her,’” he tells People Magazine. He goes on to describe the sense of relief he felt from that one act.The article details Smith's current life as a truck driver, husband and father in the Upstate.Susan Smith drew global media attention when she drowned Michael and Alex by rolling them down a boat ramp in a car in October 1994. She confessed nine days later, and the children were found hanging upside down in the car, very near an area of John D. Long Lake already searched by divers.