Tricia Walsh-Smith YouTube Divorce: Golddigger Digs New Legal Ground
By Tisha (Entertainment editor)
Tricia Walsh-Smith’s self-styled ‘pity me the divorcee’ media bandwagon continues to roll on as we recover from our stupefication at the deranged raving lady, and eagerly anticipate a second installment.
Walsh-Smith, ever the playwright, has found a new way to tell those age-old stories: blonde golddigger marries much older, rich man; new wife battles with old children over inheritance; hurt parties of a divorce lash out and spill nasty intimate details. And here we find ourselves hooked on every juicy intimacy – or, for those loathe to admit it, merely following the story as a socioeconomic study of YouTube’s effect on contemporary divorce proceedings.
For those of you who ARE wondering, Walsh-Smith’s video actually seems to be a mean shade of precedent-setting, legal brilliance: the divorce rant is admissible in court and will only be found to be slander if her allegations are false (and, despite her looniness, who actually believes that Philip Smith doesn’t have a stash of viagra, porn and condoms?). It now rests to see what a judge will make of the freak show, and it is not certain that it will necessarily work against Walsh-Smith. Sure, there is an unabashed element of theatrics and a good deal of crazy oozing out of the video, but isn’t that just an inherent part of legal proceedings anyway? Heather Mills McCartney poured water over the opposing barrister in her divorce proceedings and she still got almost $50 million.
And seriously, when the trophy wife starts talking, what are we expecting her to say? No one believes it when they try the ‘it’s only love, and I only want what’s fair’ line. And when you imagine having to kiss or shag someone like J. Howard Marshall, Paul McCartney or Philip Smith, who is like your dad’s age, you can see that dignity is long gone when your job is that of professional golddigger. Divorce is always going to be somewhat nasty, and Walsh-Smith hasn’t hidden the fact that this is all about the money. While we are slackjawed at her crazy ranting theatrics, we’re not exactly all rooting for the husband and the kids, either. So, I guess there’s not much left to do but sit back and enjoy the show!
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