He is a big part of the problems she has been having. I've read and watched a lot of interviews with old friends of her's who worried this would happen because of her relationship with Stern.. saw something on this just a couple of weeks ago in an interview with the friend who had bought the house she was living in in Bahama's and how that whole house thing blew up because of Stern.
Several years ago, I watched a few minutes of her show. She took a trip with Stern (first time I had ever seen or heard of him) and other "friends." Stern's opportunism was so obvious. Too bad she couldn't see what to many was as plain as the nose on your face.
Smith with her attorney, Howard Stern, who claimed to be the father of her daughter born last year in the Bahamas. (Brett Cooomer / AP)