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I’m not responsible for my wife Mary’s suicide, says Robert Kennedy Jr | Robert Kennedy Jr, whose wife Mary committed suicide, has insisted that he was not responsible for it. While delivering a eulogy to his estranged wife, Mr Kennedy, scion of the famous Kennedy family, spoke of the troubled life that she had and admitted that she resented him for asking her to give up her career to have children. His wife’s family went to court on Friday to try stopping her from being interred in a Kennedy family plot in Centreville, Massachusetts. But the burial that was attended by actors Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon and Larry David, and tennis champion John McEnroe went ahead following a funeral service at St. Patrick’s Church in Bedford, New York. Ethel Kennedy, Mr Kennedy’s mother and RFK’s widow, Caroline Kennedy, President Kennedy’s daughter, and Maria Shriver,
another cousin, who is married but separated from Arnold Schwarzenegger were others
present from the Kennedy family. In his tearful eulogy, twice married Mr Kennedy
told the mourners that a day before she was found hanging in the barn of the home
they once shared together in upstate New York she had called him and said ‘I was
a good girl’ to which he replied ‘I know you are and you still are’. ‘She really
fought so hard. She had these demons, and she didn’t deserve it. I know I did
everything I could to help her,’ he said. Friends of Mrs Kennedy have suggested
that she was distraught after separating from her husband, who filed for divorce
in 2010 and is now in a relationship with Cheryl Hines, the star of the television
show Curb your Enthusiasm. Robert had not completed the divorce proceedings. Mrs
Kennedy, 52, had alcohol problems and reportedly had a history of addiction to
prescription drugs. But Mr Kennedy in his address appeared to suggest another
reason for his wife’s unhappiness, her decision to leave the trendy neighbourhood
of SoHo in downtown Manhattan for the suburban commuter town of Mount Kisco and
to give up on a promising career as an architect to care for the couple’s four
children. “She was a SoHo girl. She blamed me from taking her away from her profession,”
the Telegraph quoted Robert as saying. “She was the most extraordinary woman I
ever met. I had feelings for her that I will never have for another human being.
Her greatest quality was her courage,” he said. All six children of Mr Kennedy
attended the service with Robert F Kennedy III, 28 and Kathleen, 23, his children
from an earlier marriage being the pall bearers along with their father and half
brothers, Conors, 18, and Aiden, 11. Daughter Kyra, 16, read from Psalm from Bible,
the couple’s third son is William, 14. Larry David, a close friend of the family
and who stars alongside Ms Hines in Curb Your Enthusiasm was unable to deliver
a speech as he was too distraught to speak. After the service, Mrs Kennedy’s four
children knelt beside her flower-covered coffin to pray and bid a final goodbye
to her as a bell tolled. Mourners then were driven by buses and cars to the burial
site that is four hours away at St Francis Xavier Cemetery, where Mr Kennedy had
purchased eight new plots last week. Her casket was placed a short distance away
in a new row from other Kennedy graves. The Richarson family will be holding a
memorial service for Mrs Kennedy on Monday at a tredy hotel in the Meatpacking
District of Manhattan. They had argued in the court that since Mrs Kennedy was
separated from her husband they should be allowed to take care of her funeral
arrangements.
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