"I got tired of that b*tch."
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by DNL
That -- that -- is why former Laker pretty-boy/role player Rick Fox divorced singer/actress/Miss America Vanessa Williams, pictured.
Trust me, I know -- I heard it second hand.
I was walking down the street in Manhattan checking email on my p.o.s. Motorola Q. The guy just off my left shoulder started talking, and, given that no one else was around, he probably was talking to me.
"You know Rick Fox?" he asked, although I didn't really process the question. This is, after all, Manhattan, and random whackadoos initiate conversations with passersby on a semi-regular basis.
"Vanessa Williams... Rick Fox... Lakers.... ya know?"
"Yeah," I replied. I have no idea why I replied, but I did.
The guy proceeded to tell me that he just saw Fox parking his Range Rover-esque Mercedes, and I almost stupidly replied that I thought I saw Woody Allen the night before and Timothy Busfield about 20 minutes earlier. Not that anyone would give a rat's hiney if they saw Timothy Busfield, but, whatever.
In any event, my silence paid off, because my liason was hardly silent -- with either myself or Fox. It turns out that my new friend -- a doctor (still wearing his stethoscope) -- was overly friendly with Fox as well. Doctor-Guy asked Fox why he and Williams split. After all, she's hot-like-fire hot.
"I got tired of that b*tch."
Huh.
Fox allegedly claimed that while he was faithful to Williams, the opposite was not necessarily true. Doctor-Guy relayed that Williams hit the sauce a bit too hard; that, Fox allegedly claimed, is why he has custody of the kids. (My erstwhile correspondent also told me that, inside Fox's ride, sat two car seats. Fox had only one kid with Williams -- a daughter -- but has a son as well.) Finally, I was told that Fox escaped a Michael Strahan-esque malaise because of a pre-nup; Williams received "only" $10 million.
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