Sunnystar
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Well yeah - I don't think I disagree with you on that. I don't know how KP or Meghan can solve this short of sending a representative to "help" Sr. But there is a risk there because he could still go to TMZ and claim the RF was trying to "control" him. Part of the reason why I'm so upset with Sr for talking to TMZ is because now he really cannot be trusted anymore by the BRF. He's made himself as radioactive and untouchable as his other daughter and son, Sam and Tom Jr..
Harry has spent his life hating the Paparazzi and how they have hunted his family, contributing to the death of his mother (some still say caused her death). And now Tom Sr does this. He worked intentionally with some and is now calling/conversing constantly with the other.
Does he have zero self awareness?
I get it that he probably doesn't get this - but he still put his needs and his upset over how he looked in the paps above his daughter. That's what set all of this off. Did that make him horrible? No - and if he had just shut his mouth and then gotten on the plane and walked his daughter down the aisle, all of this drama would have been avoided. Instead he tells TMZ he isn't going to the wedding (which is how Meghan found out) and then flip flopped and then had chest pains and then the surgery. If the surgery bit is true (which we don't necessarily know).
Also - I don't follow TMZ - but the clips were all over twitter. Hard to miss them.
Sometimes, at that age, parents DON'T have a lot of self-awareness, especially when they have other people reinforcing the bad choices, and it certainly sounds like Sam, at first, had some influence over Sr's choices (the fake photos with the paparazzo).
I don't know that I think he is entirely radioactive. It's all going to depend, I think, on where the truth lies in all the stories over the last few weeks, and both Meghan and Harry certainly know far more than the rest of us, I'd guess. What I will say is that the circle of trust has most certainly been violated and it will have to be slowly re-built with both Meghan and Harry. It can be done, and I fully expect that there will be some olive branch extended after the wedding. I don't see Meghan cutting her dad out of her life much beyond the level of involvement and contact they had prior to this PR disaster.