Divorce Sucks | Book Review

From the girl-next-door who got dumped for a Hollywood “Dynasty”

This is how I found out I was getting divorced…

I’m on vacation in a Palm Springs hotel room, holding my seven-week-old daughter in my arms. My husband Dean had been away for three weeks making a movie in our country of origin, Canada, and now has some surprising news. He is having an affair with his co-star Tori Spelling and he is leaving me for her rather immediately. He tells me that he has met his soul mate and then rents a car and proceeds to leave. I begin to realize that perhaps I’m in store for a completely different type of trip.

And so begins Divorce Sucks, the inside look at one of today’s most sensational breakups. In this one-part tell all and one part divorce survival guide, Mary Jo Eustace reveals what the tabloids didn’t – and in the process shows how divorced (or soon to be divorced) women everywhere can find their own happy (not made-for-TV) ending.

Sometimes shocking, often gratifying, and never merciful, Divorce Sucks gives you the real story behind one of today’s most public divorces while reminding you that it could always be worse.

Born and raised in Toronto, Mary Jo Eustace is an author, actress, singer, chef, and mother to Jack and Lola. Mary Jo was married to Dean McDermott for thirteen years before Dean met Tori Spelling on the set of the Lifetime made-for-TV movie Mind Over Murder. After her highly publicized divorce, Mary Jo returned to her native Canada with her son and newly adopted daughter to film her cooking show, He Said, She Said with Ken and Mary Jo for Canada’s W Network. Mary Jo is the author of the bestselling cookbook By My Side. She has also written for the best selling anthology The Other Woman and has been featured on Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood and The Today Show.

My Thoughts

I am a firm believer that there are three sides to every story, in this case, Mary Jo’s and Dean’s and then there is the truth. The problem with Hollywood cases, and all other divorces for that matter, is that facts are hidden and lies are told. I have slightly heard Dean’s side, I watch their show, and now I have read Mary Jo’s side. She is a strong woman with the will of steel made that way by her desire to take her children and move back to Canada and start a new life. I would like to think that I could have the calmness to not deck the other woman when I had a meeting with her, but I can’t know for sure.

The problem is that this story has another side to add as well, and that would be Tori’s at the time husband. So this is one messy story indeed. I am happy to have gotten the chance to hear Mary Jo’s side of the story and it is a great read, especially if you like to hear the things the tabloids and news doesn’t tell you.