Whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cheated on his troubled wife Mary or not, she clearly could not cope with how quickly he moved on. Now, his children have lost their mother and will never get over their grief.
Could Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have held off on dating Hollywood actress Cheryl Hines? Did he really have to move completely across the country to immerse himself in his new glam life and leave his lonely and depressed wife alone in their Westchester home?
After 18 years of marriage and four children, didn’t he owe her more support, especially when he was very familiar with her history of drug and alcohol abuse?
Could he have prevented her tragic suicide by hanging by not so completely abandoning her? Maybe not. Sometimes, people are so depressed, that not even intervention can not stop them from harming themselves.
But it sure seems like poor Mary Kennedy was overwhelmed by the loss of her famous and glamorous husband, who always was a celeb favorite as he headed up efforts to save New York’s historic Hudson River from pollution. He founded the international Waterkeeper Alliance and was chief prosecutor of the New York-based Riverkeeper organization which ultimately forced General Electric to pay to clean up most of the PCBs which they dumped into the river. He courted celebrities like Harrison Ford, Lorraine Bracco and John McEnroe, who became big supporters.
Too bad he didn’t put the same effort into saving his marriage to Mary, who lost her driving license after being charged with a DUI in 2010. Robert, 58, filed for divorce on May 12, 2010, two days after Mary called police to complain about her husband — but she appeared “visibly intoxicated” when the cops arrived, according to police reports, writes the New York Post.
It appears from the comments of friends and neighbors that with her marriage falling apart, Mary was a devatasted soul. She was “loney” and felt “lost,” according to a neighbor quoted in the NY Daily News. Mary felt “used up and tossed away” by Robert, a close family friend told the New York Post.
“She was expected to toe the line, stay quiet and take care of the kids, tolerate the affairs, and look happy,” another anonymous friend told the New York Post. “The alleged affairs took a terrible toll.”
Well, whether the affairs are true or not, Robert did leave her thousands of miles behind and left her also allegedly with financial worries — she feared she’d lose her home, according to Radaronline.
Her two older children were away at school and apparently her two younger children were with her husband when she took her life.
You can only imagine how after all those years of being a good wife and lovingly raising her children, she felt unneeded and unloved. Now, those four children will be motherless and will be haunted by the guilt that somehow they were responsible. They will never get over her needless death.
Robert Kennedy — could you have been a little more attentive to Mary? Could you have made sure she was getting the help she needed? Could you have relieved her financial worries?
Did you really need to pull the rug out from under her fragile soul quite so much?
Was dating a celebrity so soon really necessary?
Listen, maybe nothing you could have done would make a difference, but one thing is for sure — you have to do EVERYTHING for your children now to help them deal with the terrible loss of their mother.
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Posted at 11:24 AM on June 2, 2012
Robert was clearly punishing her because she just did not go away as he hoped. He took the children across the country then had them hanging out with his girlfriend? He denied Mary to see them on Mother’s Day? He clearly is a Narcissistic Parental Alienator that felt he was entitle to his manipulation of the children and his very abusive ways with Mary. He never really tried to help her. He left her with financial worries while he was on lavish trips with his girlfriend and children? He took his girlfriend to Mary’s close friend birthday party? What a sick guy.
Its too bad he is so self centered and can’t see HIS part in her reactive mood disorder…..that caused the depression. She did not suffer with depression for a lifetime as the Kennedy damage patrol keeps stating. That is just not true.
claire
Posted at 11:42 PM on June 13, 2012
that seems accurate that bobby’s disregard of mary as a mother was the last straw, the final solution to her undoing. what sort of father would not encourage four children to honor their mother on mother’s day? an abusive one.
the twitters and photo op’s were just plain mean.
the former criminal.
lee
Posted at 8:33 PM on May 28, 2012
lee
Posted at 8:26 PM on May 28, 2012
I wonder if the kids will hate their father for being so selfish and callous. If he were a better man, he would have been more respectful of Mary at least as the mother of his children. I find it incredible that Mary had financial worries. Clearly, Robert was punishing her. I feel bad for her children and her family who loved her. Cheryl, he will do to you what he has done to the other women in his life. You will not be the exception.
Sorry for the children that they are left with this sorry excuse of a man.
Blake
Posted at 8:41 AM on May 26, 2012
On-line, universal access taunting by Cheryl Hines, and other rabidly ambitious women, who, like her have broken up marriages for their own gain, is no different than the serious cyber-bullying that has driven some young people to suicide. Ms. Hines is an adult but has acted so cruelly as to put her in league with the most base, cunning and self-serving low-lifes this planet has to offer. The day will come when public postings that are designed to cause emotional turmoil will be prosecutable under the laws of IIED, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. This will not be tolerated by a civilised society.
And, Ms. Hines will have to look at the pain in Mary’s children’s faces for the rest of her life.
If I were Mary’s family, I would sue Hines and set one hell of a precedent.
Jen
Posted at 1:47 AM on May 24, 2012
No, he did not have to be more attentive. He should have not made her think he was going to take her kids away. He should have helped with finances. And his girlfriend Cheryl Hines should NOT have flaunted her relationship with the Kennedy over the internet. She deleted her Twitter account but you can find what she was tweeting about. I’m surprised that a 47 year old mature woman would be tweeting about her day with her 58 year old boyfriend’s little son. Why was she making that public? To make Mary miserable?
Last but not least, Kerry Kennedy who declared Mary as her best friend tweeted on April 14th a picture of Cheryl Hines, Glenn Close and RFK Jr taken on Glenn’s birthday party. No Mary in the party. (She was very close friends with Close). Everybodys enjoying themselves and Cheryl Hines basically claiming Mary’s friends, husband and life!
Let’s not call Mary “poor”. They humiliated and tortured her. It would have upset any sane person. Can you imagine Cheryl Hines being your step-mother, the woman who helped kill your own good mother? If I were Mary’s kid, I would hate Cheryl Hines.
lee
Posted at 8:31 PM on May 28, 2012
Kerry Kennedy. Shame on you!! You twitted photos of the party with Robert’s new girlfriend. Wow! With “best friends” like that…Kerry, don’t BS us with your homage to your friend on Huff. Post. You’re full of crap. Look up the definition of friend. You clearly were not a true one. You were more concerned about showing off that you were hanging out with celebs than Mary. SHAME on you and your brother!!
claire
Posted at 11:34 PM on June 13, 2012
wow, that is so right on…
i was thinking…. kerry, me thinks thou dost protest too much!
annmarie
Posted at 1:08 AM on May 23, 2012
For better or worse, in sickness and in health, till death do us part. She was good enough to marry? She was sane enough? Gee poor pathetic, Kennedy Family. God help her children.
C.H.H
Posted at 12:21 AM on May 23, 2012
The Skakel family notoriously let their children run amok. Michael Skakel being a prime example. Ethel stopped controlling her kids after RFK died. She just couldn’t cope. I pray that Mary Richardson’s children don’t have the same fate.
C.H.H.
Posted at 12:14 AM on May 23, 2012
Robert F. Kennedy Jr has his mothers family SKAKEL to thank for his failings at
Dink Friesell
Posted at 9:26 PM on May 21, 2012
When a woman has been abused and used by a husband that she has loved and most often will love till death it is a shame because there is no way out financially and most of these women have no close friends due to the fact that the man was or is controlling and makes her life a living hell untill it takes its toll either way death is some times the only way out for these women and none seems to want to help make it better I have been trying to help for 22 years but most of the money I make comes from peddling poetry t-shirts to bury these women. MY LOVE GOES OUT TO THOSE CHILDREN WHOM WILL NEVER FORGET THE MOTHER THAT THEY NEVER HAD TIME TO KNOW
lucy
Posted at 3:11 PM on May 21, 2012
ANd what was Cheryl Hines thinking. Or NOT thinking?! Other than wanting to just be a Kennedy!!
What a thoughtless person.
She has said “one and done” with kids already.
How will she everdeal with this?
MrsT
Posted at 2:08 PM on May 21, 2012
BJ S,
How would you feel if this were your sister?
I have a sister who experienced a similar sham of a marriage. The man told her it was her fault that he cheated because she was fat and dumb and called her names all the time. Emotional abuse is more deadly than physical abuse, it destroys your heart and soul!
She could have been a model and is now finishing her PH.d
in nursing. Thank God she was able to get out of that marriage, but her 3 kids have lasting scars.
Patsy Davis
Posted at 3:01 PM on January 12, 2013
Too bad that Robert Kenndy’s wife had to suffer the same end as the rest of the Kennedys’ wives have done. The Kennedy men are famous for their unfaithfulness and behind the scenes “other lives”, particularly JFK and his brother RFK, who had affairs with Marilyn Monroe and then killed her via a drug overdose because she was going to tell the public about their affair. Why shouldn’t Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. follow the same path as his Kennedy predecessors. I feel sorry for his wife and their children. There was no reason for her suicide. HE could have prevented that, but now he owes everrything to their children!