In a startling revelation, Terri Schaivo's ex-husband Michael admitted in an interview that his new book Terri: The Truth was written to "settle some scores" with Terri's family rather than honor the memory of the woman at the center of a national euthanasia battle. - LifeNews
The MSNBC interview the article is based upon is found here.
I understand why many will see Schiavo's "revelation" as "startling". However, it does seem rather consistent with prior testimony he gave during a 1999 depostion:
Q. Have you considered turning the guardianship over to Mr. and Mrs. Schindler?What I find remarkable is his assertion that an affair (he actually had multiple) while staying married to Terri was somehow honorable:SCHIAVO: No, I have not.
Q. And why?
SCHIAVO: I think that's pretty self explanatory.
Q. I'd like to hear your answer.
SCHIAVO: Basically I don't want to do it.
Q. And why don't you want to do it?
SCHIAVO: Because they put me through pretty much h*** the last few years.
Q. And can you describe what you mean by h***?
SCHIAVO: The litigations they put me through.
Q. Any other specifics besides the litigation?
SCHIAVO: Just their attitude towards me because of the litigations. There is no other reason. I'm Terri's husband and I will remain guardian.
Lauer: People have often asked. Michael why didn�t you divorce Terri, you were living with Jodi.An appeal to sentimentally as a justification for adultery? Yet, this didn't stop Michael's legal representative, George Felos, at the expense of Terri�s medical fund, from likening Terri to a "houseplant".Michael Schiavo: Why do I have to divorce Terri? Terri wasn�t like a football� an inanimate object you pass back and forth. She was my wife. You mean because your wife gets sick, do you give her back?
Jodi Schiavo: I would think so much less of Michael had he walked away from her. That is one of the qualities in him that I so admire. That up against everything...he stuck by her...
Jivin responds here... Wouldn't all wives like a husband that sticks by them like that?.
More Information: Michael Schiavo Says It�s His Turn To Talk - North Country Gazette, Hyscience
Source: BlogsforTerri
This interview reinforces the conviction I held last year at the time of Terri's death. Michael's goal was to win the fight against the Schindlers. At all costs. It had nothing to do with honoring Terri, just like the book. For Michael Schaivo, it has always been and will always be about Michael...never Terri.
Michael Schiavo is one of the most disgusting men I have ever seen. Jodi is no better. She states that she respects him. I just hope she never discovers that his temper could also do her in, and, as with Terry he will never look back. It is, after all, about Michael. No one else matters. They will, one day, discover that hell is forever. They may con themselves and they may con many others, but they cannot con God. They both are disgusting.
Michael Schiavo has a grandiose personality of himself and he exhibits sociopathic personality traits. How soon he has forgotten how he melted Terri's wedding rings, shortly after her "collapse", to make himself jewelery...and euthanised her perfectly healthy cats. He had no "plans" for her to recover...or hopes either, for that matter as he was already romping in the sack with other women in the early months of her hospitalization. How soon he has forgotten how he used her like a pawn in his life to gain pity and to be awarded a malpractice suit that was unjustified. He further proved his unworthiness as a spouse by halting all her therapy as soon as HER malpractice money came in..and proceeded to spend it on HIS attorneys to have her put to death. He is dispicable. What a scummy, sicko husband to starve and dehydrate his own wife to death while sitting next to her with a huge vase of flowers and WATER only inches from her head? Terrible. Absolutely terrible.
I don't believe a thing Michael says. I think he wouldn't divorce Terri and turn her care over to her parents because he wanted her money he would get after she died. If he truely loved her he wouldn't have said the awful things the nurses in her care reported hearing him say like,"How long can this bitch live?" That is not the words of a loving husband. So he has to deal with his guilt for the rest of his life. I hope he rots in hell!