So… I don’t watch Dr. Phil.
Correction… I ONLY watch Dr. Phil when I’m at the dentist. The last time I was there some teenager was convinced she was pregnant with baby Jesus or something.
So I figured it’s basically Jerry Springer plus a guy who pretends he’s qualified to deal with “serious issues.” (Is Dr. Phil actually a Doctor?)
Buuuuuuuut this might JUST be juicy enough to make me tune in.
The Mooch and his (not ex) wife are on. And it sounds SCANDY.
OOOooooOOOoohhhh…..
The Scaramuccis are speaking out for the first time about their shocking divorce and surprise reconciliation on Dr. Phil.
The couple, who married in 2014, also discuss Anthony’s 10-day stint as White House Communications Director, a position he accepted while his wife Deidre Ball was nine-months pregnant.
That move was one of the reasons Deidre filed for divorce, explaining that she was kept in the dark about her husband’s new role.
So um… what they’re saying is the former “Communications Director” really sucks at communicating?
Got it.
‘No, we actually never really talked about it. So, obviously he was campaigning with him. And then one thing led to another, kind of like spiraled out of control and the next thing we knew, Donald Trump was the President,’ says Deidre in a clip obtained by DailyMail.com.
‘And, Anthony was, you know, signed up to be with him.’
The Scaramuccis episode of Dr. Phil airs Tuesday.
That’s today, FYI.
Anthony is quick to admit he now realizes the error of his ways, but thought at the time he was doing the right thing.
‘I thought she’d be okay with it because I flipped it around, Dr. Phil. I was like, okay, this is going to be good for my family and it wasn’t,’ explains Anthony.
‘It was good for me maybe. It maybe wasn’t even good for me, frankly, but it was a drive that I had. And if something is glittering at you and you’re going at it like a fly, you may get zapped by it not fully understanding what you’re going towards and that frankly happened to me.’
He then adds: ‘I’ll tell you right now, it’ll never happen to me again as it relates to this relationship but I do know that I’m a risk-taker.’
I get that. If my partner made a huge life decision like that without keeping me in the loop I’d CERTAINLY be upset. But would I divorce him? I don’t know… it depends.
I think I’d understand where he was coming from. Especially if it was a heat-of-the-moment kind of thing. I, for one, am the kind of person who doesn’t think you should ever let huge opportunities pass you by.
Anthony later says in the interview that because he was making money he believed that he was doing good by his family, as that would ensure their well being for years to come.
He says now that this too was a mistake.
Deidre, who filed for divorce in July before giving birth to the couple’s first child later that month, eventually withdrew the papers just days after Thanksgiving.
When asked why she made this decision, she responds: ‘First of all any relationship is a work in progress, right. and I love him and the whole time we were apart I was like, what the heck happened. So, I, I just wanted my family back and I loved him and I wanted my kids to have their dad and we’re working on it and it’s how it should be.’
Deidre (Ball) Scaramucci certainly knew her husband was a Trump supporter well ahead of him getting hired… So despite the fact that many said THAT was why she divorced him… that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Ball has managed to keep a low profile throughout her husband’s bombastic campaign to land a position at the White House on President Trump’s staff.
She also seemed to be supportive of her husband’s political ambitions as she appeared with him at events and even posed alongside him as he flaunted his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap.
Soon after he sold Skybridge, Scaramucci was named Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs and an assistant to President Trump.
‘Anthony is focusing on his children, his work for the president and the American people. There is nothing more important to him,’ said a source close to the moneyman.
‘I don’t know who Deidre thought she was marrying but anyone who knows Anthony knows he’s an ambitious man.’
Well, I certainly wish them the best!
It’s good to see a family reunited!