Inside Edition

Yeah, if you happened to catch Inside Edition late last week, that was indeed my mother you saw.

I really don't mind saying that our family was terribly disappointed with how the segment came out. It was sold to Mom as an opportunity to tell her side of the story, to relate how she had no way to predict her attack, to demonstrate how difficult it is to persevere after this kind of encounter.

Unfortunately, what came across was more along the lines of, "isn't this bizarre?" They capitalized on the shocking bits to create a freakish circus. Looking objectively at Inside Edition, that seems to be their standard M.O., but it's a bit harder to swallow when it's your family they're parading around.

To be fair, they did manage to grab a few genuinely important bits: there was a certain degree of satisfaction and finality to watching Bill plead guilty. It was good to see Mom relating her true feelings about Bill toward the end: "he wanted to destroy me, but he's only succeeded in destroying himself. I find that pathetic." That's my mom, all right.