Relationships have gotten a lot more treacherous with technology, and we’ve heard of breakups via text messages and other things unimaginable only a few years prior. Tricia Walsh-Smith, a former actress and playwright, is taking the absurdity to a new level by trying to humiliate her husband Philip Smith on Youtube because of their marital problems. It’s hard to tell how genuine her anguish is in this video, because she is an actress. If Philip had no grounds for divorce before, this public embarrassment probably is enough.
This is unprecedented in the history of divorce, and hopefully doesn’t start a trend of people airing out their marital grievances online. It is an amazing spectacle, watching a woman denigrate her former husband, intending to spread vitriolic comments around the world. Raoul Felder, the attorney for Walsh-Smith, stated that the whole thing was kind of “funny, but there’s also sadness. This is a victim who is holding her head up. I think she comes off well.” What else is her own lawyer going to say?
According to some matrimonial lawyers, divorce-by-Youtube might not caught steam simply because it could come back to haunt the participants. Bonnie Rabin, a divorce lawyer, points out that “judges make decisions partly on (a person’s) judgment. She could hurt herself with this.” This also opens her up for lawsuits, because the video is defamation if I ever saw it.
Why do you think about this divorce-by-Youtube? Is is a sad indictment of humanity as a whole, or only a minor anomaly?
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