Here she is in 1979. Judge for yourself.
Not sure when she first fell off the wagon, but it was presumably sometime after she married Fat Boy.
Posted on 11/19/2007 1:34:36 PM PST by yorkie
Another Kennedy is in trouble with alcohol and the court system.
Joan Kennedy was taken to a Boston hospital over the weekend after caretakers appointed by a Barnstable court decided she was too intoxicated for her own good, according to a report in the Boston Herald today.
The 71-year-old Kennedy, who is the ex-wife of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital after she became drunk at a social event Friday night, the Herald reported.
Her caretakers were appointed as part of a deal with her children to head off a court battle over her Hyannisport home. She was also under orders from a Barnstable family court judge to refrain from drinking alcohol.
If she breaks the rules of the agreement she can be placed in permanent guardianship by the court and assigned around-the-clock caretakers, according to the Herald.
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That's something that folks outside of Massachusetts aren't likely to know.
It’s not a surprise. What I’ve read about her seems to indicate she needs serious help. Of course, I’m not in the inner circle. : )
Who knows if her early days with The Swimmer enhanced her disease or if it would have surfaced anyway.
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The Kennedy men in general would be enough to drive anyoen to drink.
The patriarch always looked like a nice lovable old man. Wrong! He was the meanest SOB of the bunch. And at least two of his sons and a number of his grandchildren were apparently just like him.
I don't know about you but I'm not willing to give her kids the benefit of the doubt regarding their motives.They never did anything to stop their old man from drunkenly assaulting waitresses in DC restaurants,etc.But then he,unlike their mother,never contemplated selling a piece of real estate worth 6+ million dollars.
There's a talk show host in Boston who talked at length about the whole matter while it was happening.It was a really filthy and transparent stunt they pulled on her...trust me when I tell you that.
The above was posted on February 25, 2005, in the Boston local news.
Here she is in 1979. Judge for yourself.
Not sure when she first fell off the wagon, but it was presumably sometime after she married Fat Boy.
The answer may be found in the following article from Boston Magazine:
That famous accident, which would dash any chance Ted Kennedy had to become president, occurred on a sultry July night in 1969, when the senator drove off a bridge on the island of Chappaquiddick, at the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard. A young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne was beside him. His car plunged into a shallow waterway, Poucha Pond, landing upside down. Kopechne drowned; Kennedy swam to shore, leaving her body in the water to be found by Edgartown police. Afterward, his wife stood by her man, even at Kopechne's funeral. Already pregnant with another child, Joan would lose the baby a month later. "For a few months everyone had to put on this show, and then I just didn't care anymore. I just saw no future. That's when I truly became an alcoholic," she told Laurence Leamer.
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