Word: joey
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...People were very surprised that you stayed with Joey after it happened. Are you surprised, looking back? No. Reliving my life and realizing now that I was married to a very, very good sociopath, I can see why I stayed. We had been married for 15 years up to that point. And I believed him. It's as simple as that. I believed him when he said he had nothing to do with her. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island, N.Y., housewife, casually answered her door and unwittingly stepped into one of the most sensational crimes of the decade. Standing on her front porch, Mary Jo was shot in the face by Amy Fisher, her husband Joey's 17-year-old mistress. Fisher, quickly dubbed the "Long Island Lolita" by the New York tabloids, ended up serving nearly seven years in prison for reckless assault. Joey, a 36-year-old auto-bodyshop owner, went to jail for four months for statutory rape...
...Mary Jo, against all odds and in constant pain, survived the shooting with a bullet lodged in her head - and much to the world's surprise, she stayed married to Joey. They divorced in 2003, after 22 years of marriage, and now Mary Jo, 54, has broken her silence with a book, Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Mary Jo at her home in Ventura County, Calif. (See the top 10 mistresses...
...TIME: Why have you written a book now, after so many years? Mary Jo Buttafuoco: Two years ago, I was complaining about the latest stunt that [Joey] had pulled, which was being out with Amy Fisher on a date and walking all over Central Park. I just was shaking my head for the umpteenth time, going, "Why does he do this stuff?" And Paul, our son, very matter-of-factly said to me, "He'll never get it, Mom. He's a sociopath." And that word - I didn't like it. I thought it just sounded like a crazy, murderous...
...finally decide to leave Joey after everything that had happened? I was older, the children had grown up, I knew that nothing was going to change. My marriage just died a slow death. It was not good for the last couple of years. I got sober, I got stronger, I got well, and I knew it was time for me to move...