Which came first the chicken or the egg
In this case, she clearly got fired or quit before taking
off to fix herself again, a kind of repeat of what occurred earlier in 2011
when she fled the chef to go through Europe
my source in the virgin mayors office says she was fired and
in reaction to that she took off for the clinic. I don’t believe most of what
is being said about her in this regard, although this time she seems to have
gotten humiliated in the Virgin Mayor’s town and fled South to a clinic to help
her cure her eating disorder
this may or may not have been at the suggestion of her
therapist who she mentions in their journal and certainly was with the help of
her mother who provided her with overnight bags for the trip
but there are some inconsistencies in time from when she
actually took off and when she posted her poem about the trip and her essay
she was apparently fired at some point in late January at
the same day she sent an email to our new writer about possibly guiding him at
the newspaper.
She posted her angels in earlyFebruary suggesting she had
already made the trip south to the clinic.
I found out about the firing around a few days later after
the PR guy tried to find out what happened to the press release she was
supposed to have sent about a press conference.
her poem Angels is about her falling back into old eating
disorders and her inability to deal with it on her own and her plan apparently
to seek professional help in the clinic calling them angels,
later in her journal she detailed the events that had
started with her arrival at the clinic in February and her stay until early
March which is her last entry
She apparently was due to return yesterday or today
This coincides with her absence from a number of public
events and lends evidence to the possibility she was simply on leave of absence
since she was down
south for both the freeholder press conference and the international women's
Day events I felt safe to cover both, which I did.
but this move to the clinic maybe a reaction to the loss of
status and the shattering of her ego and a need for shelter from The Storm in
order to regroup, reinvent herself, and figure out what to do next
the journal is better
written than most of what she posted last summer less PR and more continuation
of old themes of recovery from cancer, her poverty and other aspects of real
life, and her inability to overcome the eating disorder -- the last symbolic of all the rest.
She somehow sees her ability to recover from one as a
solution to recovering for the rest
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