The Wife Says: Buh-Bye Katy and Russell
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 9:49AM
Hands up if you saw this one coming. After just fourteen months, Katy Perry and Russell Brand are calling it quits. Insiders say he didn’t like her boozing now that he’s all clean.
Curiously, the split comes just two months after she told Ellen Degeneres she wanted Russell’s kids and just a few weeks after he said they’d be married for eternity. Both are in showbiz so they know how to lie. But was it also self-delusion?
I blame the wedding. Yeah, I know you can’t get a divorce without one but there is something about over-the-top nuptials that makes me leery. They did the deed in India with elephants and acrobats.
I’ve had friends who’ve gone crazy planning the big day down to multiple attendants and carving initials in rocks for guests to take away as a sign of their love. Yeah, right.
It’s not the big day, the endless stretch of little ones that follow. It’s what happens when he forgets the anniversary of your first time or calls you "Babe" by mistake. It’s when he has to kill a spider or convince you the new computer really isn’t Hal and doesn’t hate you.
Average people don’t get this, swept up in romance and bemused by fonts for invitations. How can celebrities? Their whole lives are make-believe. Their marriages will be any different?
Also, the whole "Go to bed with Gilda, wake up with Rita Hayworth" bit. Sure, Rita or Katy or even Russell aren’t chump change but they aren’t perfect. Life isn’t Photoshopped and even J-Lo has cellulite. (I buy the tabloids so I speak from authority.)
What’s next for the unhappy couple?
A period of mourning. Photos of them looking bereft. Then dating and finding eternal love. Again.
Thus is the cycle of celebrity life.
Reader Comments (2)
Really who cares what these "stars" do.... a disappearing act would be the best acting they could do.... Gawd what a waste of oxygen...really ....
Of course Katy and Russell are getting divorced.
To thine own ego be true.
Their base of operations (Hollywood, Malibu, Beverly Hills), where I was (un)fortunate enough to have grown up in (starting at the age of 7) from the very early 70's to the new milleneum. I had the great (mis)fortune of personal dealings (like the author) with many of these folks.
Honestly, if not for the massive, overindulgent ego, we wouldn't have the great performers and performances, eye candy, or you name it....that we have.
Unfortunately, the cost if often paid by them personally, along the way, or in the end (Cobain, Morrison, Hendrix, etc)
The lucky ones will look within, and to learn how to figure it out themselves, or have such great net-worth, that they live inside an artifical bubble where rules and social norms do not apply (Spector, Madonna, Alpert, etc.)
Really, I have met many uber-famous folks, who literally did not know how to purchase an item at the supermarket, nor even use a gas pump.
They do live in their own world, above the "little people" and masses of minions who support their "art". Some see it their own distorted way, some realize the silliness of it all.
The good part is that we get to discover those diamonds in the rough, whom we can follow with fantasy and emotional abandon, until they become true gems. (If we catch them young enough).
I, for one, am surely guilty of that.
Back to the "super-alpha-dog" power of the ego.
For those of you who are having trouble with the all-encompassing ego, may I suggest reading "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle. A great guide on sorting out the ego from the self, and a great way to find your most creative possibilties.
Good luck, Russell and Katy.
On to the next.