I wanted to throw up, watching this. What the hell has happened to Elizabeth Edwards, who used to be a woman of admirable spunk and intelligence? In this Oprah video, she is but a ghost of her former self. In fact, Oprah and Edwards’ rat of a husband don’t even bother to include her in their conversation, referring to her in the third person throughout. On the one occasion he used her name, the rat seems to have a problem remembering it, while she just smirks and gazes at him adoringly.
I remember watching them, during the rat’s Vice-presidential campaign of 2004 and thinking, “There’s a smart, intelligent woman, no great beauty perhaps, who still can’t believe her luck in landing the best-looking guy in college.” (Best-looking to some people, maybe, but not me. As I believe I have said elsewhere on this site, if you look up the phrase “shit-eating grin” in Wikipedia, you should find his picture.)
I’m not sure which one makes me sicker…..him or Oprah. I’m NOT an Oprah fan, to say the least.
Me neither. Can’t stand the woman, to be honest, especially now that she has anointed herself as the Mother Teresa of daytime television. (Never could stand Mother Teresa, either, though.)
This is all such an awful family tragedy being played out in public. It’s painful to see and hear, but you can’t look away. One thing a friend reminded me of is that cancer — or any other deadly disease — makes you crazy for a while. That’s run-of-the-mill cancer, not metastatic cancer; I can only imagine what the latter must do to you — especially when you have young children and know you won’t live to see them grow up.
I agree with you, Ruth, it is a tragedy. And hanging by his balls is too good for Edwards. What makes it a Greek tragedy is that Elizabeth Edwards is so consumed by her hatred for the Other Woman, that it is likely eating away at her even more than the cancer. She would have been so much better ofs spending time with her children, not wasting it on writing that awful book. There are so many permutations and ramification to this story. The whole thing is just unspeakably awful. And, of course, that being so, Oprah just had to be there, like a succubus.