Watching Piers Morgan interview Rielle Hunter, the former mistress of ex-presidential candidate John Edwards and mother of their daughter, I was once again reminded of the persistent fallacy that an outsider is the "homewrecker", that he/she (usually a she) causes the "alienation of affection". This was Morgan's salacious theme throughout the interview and it is delusional.
"You must be aware that you are reviled for breaking up Edwards' marriage," he kept repeating. "Especially since his poor wife was enduring terminal cancer." Please. The only people who can break up a marriage are the two in it. Yet, this myth and canard continues.
Catherine Deneuve -- an infamous lover of many men -- when asked about her notorious affairs unapologetically said, "Some men are available and others are not. It has nothing to do with their marital status." That hit me like a ton of bricks at the time and I often think of it when some harridan or scandalmonger goes on about someone destroying a marriage. Unless they are referring to themselves, they are wrong.
And it was also amusing to watch the hypocritical Piers denegrate sitting-duck Hunter. Afterall, this is a guy who has been married more than once himself and -- as an ex-reporter for an infamous and spicy London tabloid -- likely had his own share of outside interests before his divorce.
Personally, I thought Rielle Hunter was illogical, elusive, ambiguous and at times even delusional in discussing her book about the affair. But she certainly is not what the American public has made her out to be.
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