For him, the hardest part to see “was that she quite rightly took the stance of not going out there and defending herself, because there was just too much white noise and too much bile headed in her general direction. She felt, How dare I raise my head and say, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m suffering too?'”
Even more than that, the designer herself told the mag, she didn’t want the pity. “I don’t want to be viewed as a victim,” she said, “because I don’t think I am. I am a woman in a s–t situation, but it’s not unique.”
Years removed from the depths of that scandal, she now finds herself in another not-all-that-unique situation: A woman in love.
By 2022, she and Brody were making the red carpet rounds, attending the Vanity Fair Oscars fete that March and walking the steps up to the Met Gala on that first Monday in May.