Not saying it was right but her ex husband was awful. He never showered her with gifts and was distant long before this chick came along, and Betty even admits that, there was no substance to the marriage. I am about half way finished. You can tell even looking at pictures that he has dead eyes, no depth, and she was a flighty bimbo who just fell into a good situation. She held on by dragging him to court, for four long years, and could have saved herself a lot of aggravation by just cutting her losses and running as far away from that man as she could.
Who else has sold more than 200 million... What do you do when you have struggled loyally for years beside your husband, living in financial hardship as you bring up your joint children virtually as a single mother, working toward the good times that you can see coming for all of you, only to discover that your husband is committing adultery and is planning to leave you? I enjoyed getting Betty's perspective and learning her history prior to and after meeting Dan Broderick. I read this book in two nights, and if I didn’t have a full time job would have killed it (no pun intended) in one sitting. Dan and Linda were not the nicest people and they did many things to further anger Betty.
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Having read many books on Betty Broderick in the past, seen film adaptations and documentaries about her and knowing what atrocities she committed, I personally believe that as unfaithful as her husband was, he was the victim of domestic violence, gaslighting and rampant abuse. It is every woman’s fear that a husband will leave you for a bimbo. And coercive abuse sends people crazy. After reading this book I hope she gets out on parole soon, it seems to me that she has served her time and then some. What amazes me is that Betty plays the victim in every sense. Welcome back. Hey, I get it. Yes and no. We only include products that have been independently selected by Bustle's editorial team. Movies and books have been written about her. I was obsessed with this case in 1989 and for years after. This is a really fast read.
So after reading Until the Twelfth of Never I decided to read Betty's own autobiography and see how differently she told her own story.
What a great read I could barely put it down! I have no clue if this is true or not but she continually blames others for everything.
books have been written about Betty Broderick and her crime. This must be extremely painful for the children to read about their father. The sordid tale of a two-timed housewife-turned-vengeful murderess was a big draw at bookstores, with at least five titles fully devoted to the case, including an entry from the Broderickâs eldest daughter (though her book is not on our list, as it's currently unavailable for purchase) and even a mea culpa of sorts from Betty herself. Not very well written or edited, yet somewhat enjoyable & comical in a somewhat deviant & warped way.
Anyone who has heard her rant about him during the trial or afterwards from prison, pretty much knows how she feels. 4 Books About Betty Broderick To Read After Watching Dirty John. He has almost a sinister, evil presence, and I’m sure he was just awful as a husband. If you think you know the Betty Broderick story because you've seen the TV coverage, read the news stories and seen the movie -- you don't. It was not a perfect marriage. This book tells Betty’s story in her own voice, from her own unique point of view. This book COMPLETELY changed my understanding of what went down.
I can’t imagine putting the children through more trauma. Wrong as it was to kill her ex and new wife, she did acknowledge it was wrong then and now. Now she goes on to explain how Dan showed up drunk and went out for drinks with her doctor while she gave birth alone. I was shocked to see that Betty had written one herself. An awesome collection of Floyd Mayweather coloring patterns.
Start by marking “Betty Broderick: Telling on myself” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Like many I have followed this story for years. Surviving The Forest (A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor).
A sociopathic narcissist and a whore. This is the true story of a single mother’s journey through love, perseverance, and hope after her son was born fifteen weeks premature. This book tells Betty’s story i. Betty Broderick’s story is one many of us have heard and are fascinated by.
Also, its not fair what Betty did to her children. I thought it was real, accurate and no hold bar account of her marriage from beginning to end, the good, bad and truly ugly. Taubman, a journalist who also authored the best-selling The Preppy Murder Trial about the Central Park strangulation of an 18-year-old girl by a well-heeled acquaintance, relied mostly on what she gleaned from the court room, filling her book with fly-on-the-wall minutia (case in point: âWednesdayâs session was cut short when two jurors came down with the flu before noonâ) as well as Bettyâs testimony. Forsaking All Others: The Real Betty Broderick Story. He just wanted to throw her away and be done with it. Still, I think she's paid her debt to society. In which case I would have chased down the process server, signed those papers, and been rid of him once and for all. I think it's wrong that she will probably die in prison and I think the courts were unfair to her. From the wedding that was amazing but she didn’t want that type of wedding.
Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan & Betty Broderick, Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs. Afte. But she is still in so much denial as to the gravity and enormity of what she's done. Read 7 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. It's sad that it ended with 2 people dead who were just as loved as the one who pulled the trigger but the only ones who suffered the most were the kids who didn't have a choice in who their mother and father would be. I say this because I’ve dated jerks like him, but I’ve been blessed enough to realize that their not being in my life is a gift. She was not a victim of Betty -- she was a victim of the horrible karma that she brought on herself by her cruel actions.
I’ve always said that Linda just filled the bar stool I didn’t want to sit in anymore. Wrong as it was to kill her ex and new wife, she did acknowledge it was wrong then and now. I am not sure if she actually wrote this from prison, or a ghostwriter wrote it, but it is a pretty scathing account of Dan Broderick and her life with him. Do I feel sorry for Betty? Baxter received an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Broderick.
And while some criticized the book for lionizing the jilted murderer, it did not spare her entirely. It seems her own immediate family was a bunch of uncaring selfish people as well. Dan was scared to death of growing up and turning forty. But yes, I agree with other reviews that she probably isn’t telling the whole truth. Claiming her father whispered good riddance when he gave her away at the wedding. The incessant slating of Linda, after a quarter of a century, is hard to read. An article about Broderick's case in the Los Angeles Times Magazine led to the production of a television film called (Part 1) A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story, and (Part 2) Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, The Last Chapter (1992), where Meredith Baxter portrayed Betty and Stephen Collins portrayed Dan. She continues to suffer from the effects of the "justice" system and Dan's family. From the wedding that was amazing but she didn’t want that type of wedding. All in all I loved the book and absolutely sympathize with Betty. After reading Stumbo’s book, those two turned out to be exactly what I thought. Betty Broderick, My Mom book. The book was okay. He was my husband and I was his wife, and we had children, and as wonderful as being young and drunk and free with it all before you is, I still thought that being grown up and part of a family with them all around you was even better. She lived through something that many women fear as their biggest nightmare, her husband throwing them and their marriage away for a much younger woman. I had piano lessons and soccer games and orthodontist appointments, and Linda didn’t have any of those. The book was okay. Fast forward pictures to me are worth a thousand words and when I saw her kids as adults with families of their own visiting their mom in prison it's obvious that they have come to terms with that very painful tragedy in their own way.
Plenty of books have been written about Betty Broderick and her crime; there's also an Oprah special and a ripped-from-the-headlines episode of Law & Order.