Turns Out the Homeless Man with the Golden Voice Had a Home to go to All Along ...

FoxNation.com ^ | Jan 7

[JesseWatters]

A viral video vaulted Ted Williams and his golden voice to fame, but the real hero of this story is the woman he left behind. Patricia Kirtley raised four daughters alone after Williams split 23 years ago and dove down the rabbit hole of drugs. Not only that, Kirtley took in the baby boy the radioman had with another woman and raised him as her own. Oh, and by the way, she's partially blind.

[cake_crumb]

I vote Barack Hussen Obama.

[satan]

Joe Dirt?

[Dr. Ursus]

Wesley Snipes!

[dfwgator]

Homelessness is a choice.

[Frapster]

From the moment I saw the video and read the articles (a couple of days after... i’m out of touch) my reaction was “high risk”. It’s a warm fuzzy story but there was no way you could not expect this guy to have ongoing emotional, mental and physical issues. To expect him to at any level all of a sudden have it together is unreasonable. Having said all of that I hope the right people come along side of him and he figures some things out. He could very well end up right back in the trash bin of society... but part me of always thinks he could land on Howard Stern and stay there for years.

[Cicero]

He can play himself, with Robert Gibbs doing the voiceover.

[meadsjn]

Hey, stuff happens. Maybe he just couldn’t find his way home, and eventually forgot to keep looking.

[Hot Tabasco]

Did no one expect some nasty wreckage in his past?

He and his mother were on Good Morning America this morning. He's not hiding anything, he admitted matter of factly that he's been in and out of all types of abuse rehab programs most of his life and that he's a convicted felon.

As far as this article bringing up a wife and kids, well, that's his business. It's quite likely they have already dealt with him many years ago.......

It was a good story which I really enjoyed especially how he felt so happy and proud to become the "Voice" of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.......LOL!

My only hope for the guy is that he stays drug and alcohol free since it's apparent God has given him a final chance......He mentioned two people in the audience who I suspect are "handlers" associated with Kraft and how they were "clean and sober" I think he said.

[MEGoody]

This fella has had a terrific opportunity handed to him on a silver platter. Hope he realizes what he’s been given and doesn’t blow it.

[cameraeye]

I was once told, “it is bad when you turn your back on your family. It will be worse if your family turns their back on you.” That is the question which this story will truly be told.

[Emmett McCarthy]

If the wife has received any kind of state assistance for these chilren over the years, the state will come after him for the past due child support if there was a court order for it. It doesn’t matter whether the wife wants him prosecuted or not and it doesn’t matter that the kids are now over 18. It’s contempt and he’ll have to pay the determined arrears or be locked up. Even if he stays out of Ohio, they will garnish his wages for it. Happens every day.

[Circle_Hook]

That’s funny right there now!

LOLOLOLOL!

[Lion Den Dan]

That’s what alcohol and drugs will do to a person, hopefully now he will continue on the right path, and help his family as he will be able to, stay clean and keep GOD in his life... He will be A-OKay.. I wish him all the best!

What have you been smoking?

[TaraP]

Should I say:

I wish him all the worst???

[Joe 6-pack]

According to the article, "Williams called once in a while, and Kirtley (the woman he abandoned) would hear that baritone voice she fell in love with at first sound. They stayed friendly, and he might come for Thanksgiving dinner..."

Certainly what he did was wrong, and yes, he needs to make financial and emotional amends to the best of his ability, but it seems she bears no grudge and has forgiven him.

Perhaps she's just a bigger human being than a lot of people here.

[cake_crumb]

What, he talked about the family he abandoned this morning on the Today Show? Wow, Shame I missed that, and the tearful reunions.

[cake_crumb]

Possibly a close relative.

[Republic of Texas]

I recognize that lingo. You are correct. Obviously he did some bad things in the past. He should neither dwell on it or shut the door on it, but what he does from this point with this opportunity will determine whether he can stay sober. If he can deal with the guilt of the past without using, perhaps by using a Power Greater than Himself, and make amends as best he can from this point on, he can find some peace.

If anyone thinks that 20 years of abuse was going to happen without harming those around him, they are naive. That is why Drug and Alcohol abuse is so destructive.

[cake_crumb]

Some of us know first hand what that kind of abuse does, to the victim and his or her victims. Anyone NOT taking this fairytale with a healthy grain of salt is being naiive.

[caww]

It certainly appears the whole story has yet to come out. But hey, if his wife says it's water over the dam who am I to argue. More power to them both if the state gets there's and she gets hers... and it's a done deal. Meanwhile the guys got a ways to go before he can handle his “new” notoriety...the very thing which appears to have helped get him in trouble in the first place. Some can handle this, some cannot. The end remains to be seen...but at some point he will have to go it alone without “handlers”.

Question? How come after 2 1/2 years the guy only got so far as peddling in the streets even after he was “dry”? Guess those who assist these addicts can answer that best. Just seems a lifetime of living on the street as he has is going to take a-long long time to come out of psychologically.