Eyewitnesses Reveal the Heartbreaking Details About How Carolyn Bessette Went About Her Everyday Life
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Even decades after her death, people want to know who Carolyn Bessette was. Back in the 1990s, everyone wanted to know about her fashion inspiration, what she loved to do, and more. Even today, people are itching to know all they can find out. Because of this mass intrigue, the last few years of her life before her tragic death in July 1999 were full of terror.
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No One Tells You This author Glynnis MacNicol talked about how she saw Bessette walking about New York back in the day, and how her body language indicated that she seemed beyond paranoid.
“I saw Bessette on the sidewalks of Tribeca a few times back then. The first time she was walking ahead of me, and only caught my attention because she kept looking nervously over her shoulder. Once I realized who she was—in flared jeans, the hem let down, and a cropped black leather jacket; her blonde, blonde hair pouring down her back— it occurred to me she thought I might be chasing her because I was walking so quickly,” she wrote for Town and Country. “I crossed the street. She stopped to give some unsuspecting tourists directions before disappearing into a cab.”
She added, “Minutes later, the cab drove past me, Bessette slipped low down in the back seat, her head turned away from the window.”
From the sounds of this body language, she seemed beyond paranoid, and careful with every action she took to avoid the paparazzi. And other first-person accounts claimed that this fear amped up after Princess Diana’s death in 1997.
In Kathy McKeon’s memoir Jackie’s Girl, Bessette allegedly said, “I hate those ba****ds,” referring to the paparazzi that constantly followed her and JFK Jr.
While JFK Jr did make a statement to try to help ease the paparazzi away from his wife, they didnt make a lot of adjustments with their home life. MacNicol wrote, “The couple’s Tribeca building had no doorman; they didn’t have private cars or personal drivers. Carolyn navigated the sidewalks each day alone, an increasingly terrifying prospect.”
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