I am not a hater; 'hate' is a very strong word that requires an immense amount of focus and frankly, I don't have that type of focus these days...but, I can;t stand, maybe even hate, Rebecca Gayheart. I have never met her, and honestly, there is not a single thing about her professional existence that warrants hatred; I mean, it's not like I am sitting here, festering in my apartment, saying: "That Horrible Noxema Girl...", or "That intolerable Law & Order extra. I can't deal with her." (Don't know if she was actually a L & O extra, but I also don't know what exactly she has "acted" in, either.)I sort-of hate Rebecca Gayheart for strictly personal reasons; I guess because she is a sleazy, crackhead, murdering car-flipper, who has seemingly gotten away - with it all - scott-free. I also sort-of hate her because I just sort-of know that her race and celebrity status have warranted her an innocence that a Shaniqua in Chicago's South Side would never have.
And the truth is that I wonder how in the world this is all possible.
Rebecca Gayheart killed a 9-year-old Mexican pedestrian while chatting on her cellphone; the cellphone didn't kill him; the boy is dead because she impatiently sped past the two cars who stopped ahead of her for the boy to cross, and then, she ran smack into him: now, I could talk about Rebecca Gayheart and potential racism here, but I am not going to go there.
Where was I? Oh yes: Rebecca Gayheart likes to smoke crack and publicly, cigarettes, (especially while pregnant), too. She is married to a Gray's Anatomy actor who likes to film her participating in threesomes: With a crack pipe. In the bathtub. Slurring. Classy.
Rebecca Gayheart is also a new mom; apparently, those recent crack-pipe, manslaughter-murder-days are galaxies away. She is glowing in Motherhood bliss. And wow, all of this with no rehab! Or wow, maybe she is still smoking crack and killing people, but just on the down-low...
'Ya just never know.
What bothers me are the facts that RG is not nineteen, poor, or desperate; she bothers me - to sort-of hatred - because she is insufficiently "repentant": a $2k+ fine, and a nasty drug habit formed out of anxiety and guilt just doesn't cut it for me. And nor should it, legally: this woman should have a criminal record and serve time behind bars.
We have a funny justice system in this country; justice served is almost lottery-like. Although certain examples of the privileged, jet-set are made i.e. Paris Hilton, Martha Stewart, many cases, horrible, criminal cases, slip through the cracks. So, if I were an alien looking in on observation, it would appear that the un-poor and un-dark can get away with almost anything with no notable consequence: Murder, crack...anything goes if your bank account has enough zeros, your skin tone has the right amount of melanin not in it, and your lovely eyes can bat their lovely eyelashes in just the right way... Just sayin', 'cuz here is a woman with a noted drug problem, who is a manslaughter murderer; she cannot safely operate a vehicle (if she is not killing kids, she is flipping cars unexpectedly in parking lots) and yet, wait a second! UsWeekly, et al. is checking out her postpartum crackhead butt in skinny jeans and serving up the photos with a greasy spoon....in her car, smiling. With the baby in the backseat - probably playing with Mommy's crack pipe.
Oy.
