This article contains details of suicide.
Thetragedy surrounding the Kennedy familyis well documented.
Mary Richardson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s.
ex-wife, sadly ended up with not only an unhappy marriage, but also died under tragic circumstances.
She also spent some time working with creative mastermind Andy Warhol.
It’s very, very hard."
It was there she metRFK Jr’s.
Kerry sketched a beautiful picture of their friendship they were more like sisters than friends and shared everything.
According to Kerry, Richardson was somewhat of a genius, and “the smartest student at Putney.”
But this didn’t go to her head.
When the two started dating, RFK Jr. was still married to his soon-to-be ex-wife, Emily Black Kennedy.
“It ended amicably and it was just the right thing to do.
But Bobby is a philanderer.
Always was, always will be.
And Mary knew that.”
Richardson got pregnant, and the two married six months later.
“I have never seen two people more thoroughly enchanted with one another and more completely in love.
Others who were close to the couple thought the same thing.
They couldn’t take their eyes off each other, couldn’t keep their hands off each other.
His daughter responded, “No, Daddy, Mary hates me” (via Newsweek).
RFK Jr. would later find his daughter’s lost belongings hidden in his wife’s closet.
Years later, Kick confided in him that Richardson abused her both physically and emotionally.
Kick claimed that Richardson once slapped her after she had a disagreement with one of her kids.
He claimed that his wife’s psychotherapist called a meeting to inform him of Richardson’s diagnosis.
RFK Jr. then claimed that Hankin urged him to read books about the condition.
Kerry Kennedy also opened up about her lifelong friend’s mental health issues after her death.
“Mary was a hero.
“Your wife isn’t mentally ill,” Hankin told him.
That’s how Mary felt.
The more pain she was in, the worse Bobby treated her,” Callahan wrote.
She rejected him outright.”
Despite raising their children."
Some of Richardson’s friends told Oppenheimer that she was bullied by her husband.
She knewRFK Jr. was having various affairs, and this did nothing to help her already compromised mental health.
Eventually, she reached for alcohol to numb the pain, and it became one of her worst-kept secrets.
Richardson’s addiction first came to light after police caught her driving her car over a curb.
Her blood alcohol level was found to be well above the legal limit and she was arrested.
She pleaded guilty to the charge, which was later dismissed.
“But then I get close to her, and she was passed out.
The plate of food was old, and her face was on top of the plate.
And that day, she was drinking a lot.”
“He cut off Mary’s credit card, court-approved for $20,000 a month in living expenses.
She was no longer welcome at the Kennedy compound.
Her checking account had a zero balance.
The whole town knew she was broke,” Callahan wrote.
Often, despite having her kids over, Richardson would get drunk.
This didn’t do her any favors with the court.
“He was going for full custody of the kids, which broke her heart.
She also had been part of the Kennedy family for 30 years.
And now she was being cast aside by them,” a family friend told theNew York Post.
Another insider said that Richardson was appalled by RFK Jr.’s unashamed continuation of his relationship with Cheryl Hines.
Richardson had nowhere to go, no one to turn to.
This went on for three days.
“She loved [RFK Jr.].
“Even after they separated, she was pretending everything was fine.
She’d still call him her husband.
It was bizarre and sad.”
Another friend blamed RFK Jr. for Richardson’s death.
“He was kicking her while she’s down, all alone in this house that she built.
In the end, everything was just too much,” they said.
complicated family dynamicscontinued to make headlines.
Richardson was subsequently buried in the Kennedy family plot in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
He opted for an area of the cemetery where there is room for future expansion.”
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