Despairing her pending divorce and her estranged husband’s new public romance with actress Cheryl Hines, the heartbroken mother of four took a turn for the worse toward her sad end.
The funeral for Mary Richardson Kennedy will be held Saturday at a Bedford, N.Y., church that is also holding a weeklong annual carnival that has long been a springtime rite.
The four children who will go with their father into St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church had also gone with him to the St. Patrick’s Carnival in 2010, a day after he filed divorce papers.
Robert Kennedy Jr. had been seeking refuge for his kids in the games and rides, saying their pained and furious mother had become intoxicated and irrational. Mary drove to the carnival on her own two days later and was arrested for drunk driving after a cop there saw her 2004 Volvo go up on a curb.
But she had not been ready to accept that her marriage was ending along with that year’s carnival. She would not have become Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s second wife back in 1994 if she thought that she would just become another ex. She must have told herself that with her it would be different, that she was different, so different that she could change him, that he would finally find a balance all these years after his life had been upended by his father’s assassination.
And Mary Richardson Kennedy seems to have still been clinging to that hope seven months after her husband initiated his second divorce. She went ahead and attended another annual event, this the “Celebrity Skifest” at the Deer Valley ski resort in Utah. A photo taken at this benefit for the Waterkeeper Alliance on the first weekend of December 2010 shows her cozy-close and radiant at her husband’s right side, smiling as if all were what she hoped.
But there were other people in the photo, TV news guy Bob Woodruff on her right, the singer KT Tunstall on her husband’s left. And, on Tunstall’s right was the actress Cheryl Hines.
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