The man accused of taking five people hostage at a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office desperately wanted help with a drinking problem, but lacked insurance and money to pay for it, his family said on Monday.

Leeland Eisenberg (46) is accused of walking into the Clinton office on Friday afternoon with what appeared to be explosives strapped to his body, demanding to speak to Clinton about mental healthcare, authorities said.

“It was an act of desperation to try and get help,” his stepson, Ben Warren told ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday.

Eisenberg was scheduled to be arraigned on Monday on charges of kidnapping, criminal threatening and fraudulent use of a bomb-like device. The five-hour crisis ended peacefully, after all the hostages were released and Eisenberg walked out to surrender.

His wife Lisa Warren told Foster’s Sunday Citizen her husband had been binge-drinking for three weeks and desperately wanted help with his problem. She had filed for divorce on Tuesday, and the couple were due to for a domestic violence hearing shortly after Eisenberg allegedly walked into the Clinton office on Friday.

She said Eisenberg saw a televised Clinton campaign ad where a man said the senator helped him when an insurance company refused to pay for his son’s medical treatment.

The couple has been married for about one-and-half-years. “When he was on his medication, he was always making me laugh, he spoiled me,” she said. “It was perfect in my eyes. But without the medication and (with) the use of the alcohol, he turned into a different person.”

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