NY Post wasn't the source of the information but they had excerpts from the book. It was from way back in 2003 and there aren't that many other articles left to find online about JFK Jr and CBK these days. I don't know if Meghan copied her style or not, just surprised that CBK is still considered a fashion icon these days. She wasn't a nice person.
IDK who this Klein person is but this hasn't been widely accepted as far as I know. I had heard Carolyn wasn't happy with being in the public eye, being stalked by photogs, etc. I doubt she was a coke addict but back then, people were doing it a lot I guess.
but I always found this story funny. My friend subleased Carolyn’s apartment when she moved in with John. She said C would never cash her rent checks. Months would go buy and the money would still be in her account. She’d say C, are you going to cash my checks?!
As with Diana, I think the tragic circumstances of their deaths caused everyone to gloss over the previous unpleasantness about them.
Where do I start? Bessette-Kennedy looked out of it because she was heavily into cocaine, which was still popular in the fashion industry in the 90s. He wanted to have kids, she didn't. Friends reported frequents fights between them. If they had lived there would almost certainly have been a divorce.
Had tPF existed back then we would have had a very active thread devoted to them. I would say their relationship was more turbulent than H&M's appears to be. If anything I think Carolyn, with her cold, aristocratic shell, was even more messed up.
From a book that came out about the relationship a few years after they died:
* John once returned to their loft to find Carolyn sprawled on the floor “disheveled and hollow-eyed, snorting cocaine with a gaggle of gay fashionistas,” Klein writes. “Without asking John’s permission, Carolyn gave keys to their loft to some of her friends so they could come and go as they please.”
“You’re a cokehead!” John screamed at her, one of the people present that night told Klein.
Klein also recounts a tale told him by a staffer at George magazine who had dinner with Carolyn one night.
“She made at least a half-dozen trips to the bathroom and came back to the table with white rings around her nostrils,” the staffer is quoted as saying.
“The next morning, John came in and asked me, ‘Why did you keep my wife out so late?’ And I said, ‘A better question, John, is why your wife didn’t want to go home.’ “
* Just before their July 1996 wedding, Carolyn flew into hysterics because she couldn’t get her $40,000 zipperless dress over her head.
The fashion disaster made the bride two hours late for the ceremony. Her tardiness – and her insistence on clomping across the beach in high heels – outraged her sister-in-law Caroline, setting the tone for their future prickly relationship.
* Early in the marriage, “it was clear to friends that Carolyn was cracking under the pressure” from paparazzi and the press, writes Klein.
“She displayed the classic signs of clinical depression . . . A few months after the wedding, she began spending more and more time locked in her apartment, convulsed in crying jags.”
* John and Carolyn fought, and the battles were often violent.
“John told friends that he felt trapped in an abusive relationship,” Klein says.
“One time he had to be rushed to an emergency room for an operation to repair a severed nerve in his right wrist. He tried to dismiss the injury as the result of a stupid household accident, but his friends knew better: They were certain that Carolyn was the culprit.”
* Both had fiery tempers, which ignited at the mention of either’s former paramours.
When Carolyn heard rumors that John was seeing old girlfriend Daryl Hannah, “she flew into a rage,” Klein says.
And John feared his wife was cheating on him with a former boyfriend, Calvin Klein underwear poster boy Michael Bergin.
Bergin’s former manager told Klein that he once encountered Carolyn – who was living with Kennedy but not yet married to him – hiding under the model’s staircase. She was waiting until the coast was clear before heading to his room.
The two “continued a sexual affair” while Carolyn was dating John, the book says.
“Carolyn and I had a very intense love for each other,” Bergin told Klein.
“And I know deep in my heart that she still loved me even after she married John Kennedy. Some things just don’t end.”
During a screaming match in 1999, Carolyn told John she was still sleeping with Bergin. It was a lie, Klein writes, but John believed her.
* In March that year, John – after persuading Carolyn to see a psychiatrist who then put her on anti-depressants – joined her in marriage counseling.
But “nothing worked,” writes Klein.
‘WE’VE BECOME TOTAL STRANGERS . . . I’VE HAD IT WITH HER!’
JOHN F. KENNEDY JR.’S beautiful wife, Carolyn, was cocaine-addled, obsessed with an ex-boyfriend and flew into violent rages against her husband, an explosive new book says. The couple had se…nypost.com
IIRC MM put it on her Tig blog, pre-wedding. A few(?) pages back, there’s a link.
He's a biographer who has been around a while. He has decent credentials as near as I can tell. All the stuff he put in his book came out in the months following the plane crash.
Now that's a sign of somebody who never had to worry about money.Last thing about CBK from me because I just finished the Bower book
You’re right. I had forgotten much of their story. There was lots of chaos surrounding the couple - the public fights were indeed shocking. We have not seen any of that with H&M, have we? Perhaps that will be the last straw.
While narcissism is often linked to TW, I believe Celia W, the author of the title "Me, Myself and I: A Journey Into Narcissism", is referring to Hazz's own narcissism.
