Jul 8, 2008 7:40 pm US/Eastern
Cook's Attorney Lays Tense Questioning On Brinkley
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CBS) ―
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Model Christie Brinkley and husband Peter Cook in 2002. (File Image)
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Christie Brinkley's divorce drama continued on Long Island Tuesday after a court-appointed psychiatrist called the supermodel's estranged husband, Peter Cook, a "narcissist." That's when Brinkley took the stand and things got really interesting.
The exchanges between Cook's lawyer, Norman Sheresky, and Brinkley were about as heated as anyone had ever seen.
Outside the courtroom, they both were talking off-the-cuff. Brinkley is asked whether she really meant she'd never date again, and tried to make a joke of it, saying: "I never score off dating."
Then when Cook was told his ex said she's suspending dating, he too tried to make a joke, but there was an edge there: "She got to swear of marrying," he replied.
On the witness stand, there were no jokes, just tension. As Sheresky told CBS 2 yesterday, his job is to try and break Brinkley's composure, to show the judge she is a woman acting out of anger, he said. And he got close:
"Did you ever tell your children, 'Ask your dad about his whores?'" he asked her.
"Never in front of the children. That was a private conversation between Peter and I, because he was trying to convince the children that he was trying to help that girl in Southampton. And I said, 'How did that help her to sleep with her?'" she responded.
"I have done my best to hide my feelings from my children ... For two years I tried to give my children the stable life they had before this deception," she said. "[Our life was] destroyed by this man's greed and lust."
"You're angry right now," Sheresky said to her.
"This isn't angry. This is me trying to describe my feelings to you with passion," she said.
Later, Sheresky asked Brinkley about her reference to a bust for cocaine Cook had when he was 23:
Sheresky: "Why do you bring up Peter's drug arrest from 20 years ago?"
Brinkley: "Right before our marriage, Peter gave me a completely different version of events ... Had I known then the facts that I now know, I would not have gone forward with the marriage."
Sheresky: "What 'facts?' "
Brinkley: "That according to the papers, Peter was (they said) 'a well-known drug dealer' ... and that he was caught in a gay truck stop."
Sheresky: "So you chose to believe what you read in the papers?"
Brinkley's lawyer objected, and the judge backed him up. But Cook's lawyer pressed on, before into a heated back-and-forth with Brinkley.
Before walking off, someone shouted out to Brinkley, "Do you have any advice for [Alex Rodriguez's estranged wife] Cynthia Rodriguez?" She laughed and said, "I would tell her to get Rob Cohen."
Cohen, of course, is Brinkley's attorney.
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