How My Daugther & the FBI Saved My Life! I cover this portion of the story in great detail in my memoir, If I Only Knew… However, today I am feeling a bit nostalgic. As we prepare for my book to be featured at this year’s 2013 Los Angeles Times book fair (if you’re there, please visit us at booth # 168), a lot of emotions and thoughts are going through my heart and mind. As an author, I would have preferred to have my given name used, instead, I have to use a pseudonym. All because my ex-husband (an evil and vindictive man) set out to destroy my life. He managed to take a business I had built for over 26 years and destroy it with just a couple of clicks. That’s not the worst of it. He made some very credible threats to kill me. He went so far to hire a hit man who showed up at my doorsteps at work. An amateur, obviously, because you’re reading my post today– so the idiot was just that–a pure dumb shmuck! The real victim in this story, is my daughter, Bella. She took the threats (which my ex made sure she knew of as well) very hard. When he couldn’t get a reaction out of me, he started terrorizing her. I cover the story in length in my book, but I wanted to give you a little bit of the background story, because I’ve gotten quite a few tweets and emails from men and women who are terrified of their significant others and/or spouses. The first thing I can suggest is that when someone is holding you mentally hostage or blackmailing you, you have the power (believe it or not) to turn it around. I am so proud of my daughter because she never gave into my ex-huband’s attempts to scare her into doing what he wanted. He was very good at that! Not with Bella, though. She was a fighter from childhood. A survivor with a set of invisible you know what…. The dichotomy is quite interesting, because on one hand she’s extremely sweet and giving and gentle, and on the other hand, she’s a tough cookie. I think it’s in the DNA; not to mention the Sabre (a Sabre is referred to as a native of Israel; and thought of as a strong and no non-sense kind of person) water she grew up on when she was a baby. To read the rest of this blog post, please visit: ifionlyknew.co/category/ho...Gigi Scott
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:40:23 +0000