When we met, we were very happy together.

I thought we did have a perfect marriage.

Much of what we know about the Broderick's married life comes from a series of interviews

conducted in 1988 in the midst of their high profile divorce.

To the best of my recollection, Betty had kind of been shopping the story around.

She was just desperate to tell her story.

Paul Krueger was a reporter for the San Diego Reader, a weekly alternative newspaper.

She ended up contacting my colleague, Jeanette De Weis.

Jeanette talked to her, immediately thought this is a really interesting story.

Between them, they interviewed both Brodericks.

They met Betty in what she called the dump where she lived.

He remembers it as a nice place, but stacked high with boxes of legal documents almost

a stage set for the horror story she unfurled for them.

She was very believable.

She told this amazing story of how terrible Dan was and how what a good wife and mother

she'd been.

She really sucked you into her drama.

They spoke with Dan in his downtown office.

Then when you talk to Dan and you hear his side of the story and you read the documents,

you see it's much more complicated.

Their demeanor, Dan's and Betty's could not have been more different.

She was attractive.

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