Posted on 01/21/2007 7:49:54 AM PST by SmithL
Fifteen months after her bitter divorce and an appearance on Oprah, Bay Area author Terry McMillan says the younger man who once helped her get her groove back -- only to break her heart by coming out of the closet -- is making her life a living hell.
And, from the looks of things, it's about to get worse. McMillan's hairstylist ex-husband, Jonathan Plummer, has signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster for a fictionalized tell-all account based on his decadelong relationship with McMillan, whose own novel and movie about their early romance, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," was an international best-seller.
Life for McMillan is anything but groovy these days. She says she's afraid to leave her home and accuses Plummer of trying to bleed her for money and threatening to release embarrassing anti-gay slurs she left on his answering machine if she doesn't go along.
For his part, Plummer says his ex-wife misinterpreted his motives.
"He is like a f -- Duracell, and I want him out of my f -- life, and he won't let me out of his life. I can't live like this,'' McMillan said in an emotionally charged interview that ranged from rage to tears. We also received several e-mails from her, including this plea: "I just do not want to end up dead because no one did anything to stop him.''
A flash point came...last March, telling her, "There are people that are dying to hear the messages, and it will definitely put you back on the homophobic ... um, you know, stereotype again.
...McMillan filed for divorce from Plummer in January 2005 following 6 1/2 years of marriage. That was not long after Plummer -- 23 years her junior -- disclosed he was gay and had been cheating on her.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Geez Louise, how could anyone look at that dude without setting off full-on gaydar alarms???
Batty boy!
I saw McMillen and hubby on Oprah. He may be flamingly gay but she is flamingly egotistical, self-righteous and nasty. Perhaps hubby couldn't take another minute of her militant fury and fled to more tender arms.
Perfect for each other.
Likely they are still together, just playing things up for publicity.
She didn't know that guy was a fag?
BWAHahahahaha...
What the heck is a "fictionalized tell-all". Talk about oxymoron.
I just wonder how many people were led into self-destructive wish fulfillment by this book and the movie based on the book. Only to find out that reality intrudes, even for the author.
hairstylist ex-husband
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