'The narrative that plays out is always: What did she do wrong? Wasn’t she supportive enough? Attractive enough? Too mumsy? Too clever? Too independent? Not independent enough?'
broke. The hours may roll on but the cameras are still there – outside her house – watching, waiting, like prey ready to pounce – but waiting for what? Well, we all know don’t we? They’re waiting for the ‘money shot’ a photo of her breaking down in front of them – her visceral torment caught on camera to be displayed on the next day’s front pages, for us all to see and gawp at.
Few of us can imagine the steely strength it has taken for Martha Hancock to put her game face on – and strut down that road, several times now, head held high, shades and fixed grimace firmly in place. I don’t know why she’s chosen to do this and what kind of psychological toll it’s taken on her to face down the press, but I do know if I was her, I doubt I would be this brave or fearless. And believe me, I choose these words carefully because I do think she is brave and fearless.
World news on Saturday evening. I presented it factually and dispassionately. The story is a legitimate and important one. But hunting down his wife should not be part of it in any way. So, why do some in the media and society think it’s OK for it to be open season on an innocent woman? A woman who has done nothing wrong, has not sought to be in the public eye or have her marriage and life raked over, analysed by people who know neither her nor her husband – and is in fact the injured party. They may justify it to themselves by arguing that because she is married to someone who is in the public eye, she’s somehow forfeited her right to privacy.
But the morbid fascination and intrusiveness into the most private of matters is more than just schadenfreude. Martha Hancock may be the innocent victim – but the subtext here, in all the headlines and the obsessive need to get that shot of her – is that when a marriage falls apart, the bottom line is 'it’s the wife’s fault'.
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