I hope it is a rumor...He is supposedly a good Catholic. Not a great role model if true.
I would forgive him...I always tease hubby that Mel is the only man I would ever leave him for ; )
he's a man. There isn't any "role model" other than the guy whose resurrection we just celebrated.
This constant looking for a "role model" or busting on people that "fall from grace" or do stupid cr#p is useless.
He's a Catholic. big deal. He's an alcoholic, a father of lots of kids, actor, director and just another man.
No more, no less. I've never seen him going around telling me what to do or how to behave. Even if he did, I wouldn't listen to him anyway.
I'll pray for him, cause from what I've seen publicly he needs it. I like some of his movies and some are/were not so good. I just think it will be hard on his kids. Some of my friends got divorced and my kids were much younger and asked if that was going to happen to me and my wife. I could tell how sad and devastated they'd be if it happened. Who to live with? What to do about telling the kids right from wrong? How to tell them about truth and honesty and fidelity?
Man, divorce is a tough nut for kids. My life is easy, I'd probably find myself on the ground bleeding with my wife asking me how to reload if I cheated on her.(stolen joke from Dick Armey).
You know what's funny is that Paul Newman was such a flaming lib, very handsome, smart and rich... but had one of the longest lasting marriages for actors. Just goes to show that finding someone and then knowing that marriage is both very hard and very easy can be difficult.
I've only been married for 20 years, but it seems like I'm always on my toes and trying not to screw things up. I like my wife and the first thing I think about when something good or bad happens to me is.... "I can't wait to tell (insert wife's name)"
I hope both of them find a way to stay married to each other. It would be a nice thing, I think. But an alcoholic is such a pain in the a##, that he could be making her life a living h#ll.