Sign of things to come...

South Carolina’s first lady says her wedding was a “leap of faith” because Gov. Mark Sanford, who famously cheated on her with a woman he described as his soul mate, did not want to include a vow of fidelity in their marriage ceremony.

Jenny Sanford also tells ABC’s Barbara Walters in an interview airing Friday on “20/20” that the final blow to the marriage was the publication of racy e-mails between Sanford and his Argentine mistress.

The show released excerpts of Sanford’s interview with Walters, which coincides with publication Friday of her memoir, “Staying True.”

Not having a vow of faithfulness “bothered me to some extent, but ... we were very young, we were in love,” Jenny Sanford tells Walters. “I questioned it, but I got past it.”

In her memoir, a copy of which the Associated Press obtained Tuesday, Sanford writes that her groom was worried “in some nagging way” that he might not be able to remain true.

“With the benefit of the knowledge I have about Mark now, I could point to this moment as a clear sign of things to come,” she writes. But at the time, she found his honesty “brave and sweet” and thought he just had cold feet.

The Sanfords’ divorce is to be finalized this month.

Leif ’s legal woes ...

Former teen idol Leif Garrett was released from jail Wednesday morning after having been arrested for possession of heroin by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies on the platform of a commuter rail station in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.

Garrett, a former ’70s star with a lengthy history of drug use and arrests, was taken into custody about 11:20 a. m. Monday after deputies patrolling the Metro subway station discovered he was carrying black tar heroin, said Steve Whitmore, a sheriff’s spokesman.

“He was sweating and shaking profusely,” Whitmore said.

Garrett, 48, told the deputies his condition was due to the fact that he “gets nervous around law enforcement because of his prior experience,” Whitmore said. He denied having any drugs and allowed the deputies to search him, he said.

Garrett then informed the deputies that he was hiding black tar heroin in his shoe, Whitmore said.

He was released on bond Wednesday from the county jail. He is due back in court Feb. 24.

Banjo off the block...

Folk musician Pete Seeger has pulled his famous banjo from the eBay Internet auction site.

The 90-year-old Hudson Valley resident had put the head section of the banjo up for auction with the intention of donating the proceeds to a nonprofit organization that plans to plant trees in Haiti.

But Seeger says he’ll instead donate the item to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, where the singer was inducted in 1996.

Bids reached $6,400 before it was removed from eBay.