By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

After a headline-making extramarital dalliance with his official biographer, General David Petraeus oddly refers to himself and his wife as “Team Petraeus” in a new letter to an old pal, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.

“I screwed up royally,” Petraeus, 60, wrote to retired Brig. Gen. James Shelton, according to the New York Post.

He made it clear that his wife Holly is standing by him through the storm of controversy ensuing from the revelation of his affair with Paula Broadwell, 40.

The ex-CIA chief wrote: “I paid the price (appropriately) and I sought to do the right thing at the end of the day.”

“Team Petraeus will survive though I have obviously created enormous difficulty for us,” he wrote. “Holly is, however, once again demonstrating how incredibly fortunate I was to marry her.”

‘Team Petraeus’ seemed to be on its way to disbanding when reports surfaced weeks ago that Holly was “furious” at her husband over the affair. But that revelation is certainly less surprising to many than the General