Mary Jo Eustace, ex of Dean McDermott, found out her husband was leaving her for Tori Spelling
when a gossip columnist called and asked her about the affair. On her birthday weekend, no less.
Right after they adopted a baby. Niiiice. Now she's written about it in an essay for a book called,
The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal, which comes out June 13.
Apparently the best way to break the news that a relationship is over in Hollywood is to let your partner know via tabloid or talk show. That way both people have a chance to collect themselves before the inevitable face-to-face encounter and subsequent requests from the press for more quotes. On the jerk-ometer, it's one step below texting your significant other, "we r thru." It's also a great way to get yourself a little exposure while you deal with the dumping. Win-win!
The method may have been made popular by rumors that Matt Damon dumped Minnie Driver on Oprah about a million years ago. That breakup is now reported to have been an urban legend, but it didn't stop Eddie Murphy from using this simple strategy, telling a Dutch show he was no longer with Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown. Then he went one better: he claimed he didn't know whose baby she was carrying. Scary found all this out when worried friends called her. Good one Eddie.
Now, if you end up having to dump your spouse the old-fashioned way, you can still make the most of the tabloid for the inevitable post-split feud. You know, just talk about how your ex is addicted to porn and gambling. Who says tabloids aren't good for anything?
