Then, she noted, she got “hit with an onslaught of articles.” At first, Bethenny viewed reports about Aurora—whom she never names—and Paul as a “blip on the radar.”
“Then last week, I started to see my name in headlines being portrayed as the jilted ex who had been upgraded from, that my ex had moved on from me with a younger woman, and that it regurgitated the continuous narrative that he is a very under-the-radar person who had now gotten serious with someone, had a girlfriend, met her family, met her kids, she had met his kids, he was in a serious relationship, he had bought her presents and they were a new unit,” she said. “And the media presented me as some sort of spinster that’s just home crying, suffering a breakup and watching this new transition, when in fact I was really happy.”
Still, Bethenny admitted reading details about the rumored romance shortly after her ended engagement was “brutal” and made her feel like she was going through the breakup all over again.
“The one thing that was difficult was constantly reading the headline that my ex is under the radar, making him the hero and me the villain,” she explained. “Isn’t the woman always the villain, the spinster, the old maid, the one upgraded from, the crazy one? In this case, the one who must be over the radar when, ironically, I was the one who was very much under the radar?”
However, Bethenny is moving on. “I am in therapy. I am working on myself. I am confident. I am single. I am independent,” she said. “I am happy, and I will survive this.”
