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Friends didn't tell my drinking was getting out of control: Kennedy |
Former US Senator Ted Kennedy, who died last month from brain cancer, has revealed
in his autobiography that his friends did not warn him that his drinking or his
private life was getting out of control in the 1970s and 1980s. "My friends didn't
tell me that my drinking or my private life was getting out of control, but maybe
that's because we were all having too much fun at the time. Certainly it didn't
affect my Senate work. What was unspoken between me and my friends was my reason
for excess. It was all part of my desire to escape, to keep moving, to avoid painful
memories," Politico quotes an excerpt from the book, as saying. "There came a
point in my own life when I stopped looking forward to things. There had been
so much loss....This is not to say I didn't enjoy life during those years. I am
an enjoyer. I have enjoyed being a senator; I enjoyed my children and my close
friends; I've enjoyed books and music and well-prepared food, especially with
a generous helping of cream sauce on the top. I have enjoyed the company of women.
I have enjoyed a stiff drink or two or three, and I've relished the smooth taste
of a good wine. At times, I've enjoyed these pleasures too much," Kennedy adds.
"I lived this string of years in the present tense, not despondently, because
that is not my nature, but certainly with a sense of the void....All of this began
to change when I rang the doorbell of the home in Northwest D.C. where I had been
invited to dinner on the evening of June 17, 1991, and found myself looking into
the beautiful hazel eyes of Victoria Reggie," he said. Kennedy also describes
his first marriage to Joan as a relationship that was both young and naïve. "We
both had high expectations for a successful marriage. Sadly, that was not to be.
Joan was private, contemplative, and artistic, while I was public, political,
and on the go, " he says, adding that the relationship atrophied. Joan, he said,
also suffered with alcoholism. "I myself drank too much at times and feel exceedingly
lucky to have been spared addiction. I do not blame Joan for the demise of our
marriage. Nor do I agree with some of the account she has given as to the reasons
for its demise. I regret my failings and accept responsibility for them and will
leave it at that," he said. |
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