It's unfortunate but true - the most common kind of romantic affairs these days take place over the internet. But when a celebrity wife discovers that her celebrity husband is having an internet affair, the husband may just get ambushed on live radio with news that his marriage is over.
That's just what happened between Heather Locklear and her husband Richie Sambora. According to People magazine, the couple had clashed a year ago over their personal assistant, Stephanie Heaton. Ms. Locklear had thought Ms. Heaton had become too close to the couple, particularly when it came to their children, and insisted Ms. Heaton be fired.
The magazine reports that Ms. Locklear had never thought there had been a relationship between Ms. Heaton and her husband - until, that is, she ran across some e-mail correspondence between Ms. Heaton had sent Sambora, in which Ms. Heaton had sent some photos of herself wearing the kind of clothes associated with another profession than personal assistant.
So, on Feb. 2 Sambora, on tour with his band, Bon Jovi, was doing a radio interview in Washington, D.C., when the interviewer told him that news had just come over the wire that Ms. Locklear had filed for divorce in California just 120 minutes earlier. Sambora was floored – he protested that it wasn't true; in fact he planned on being with Ms. Locklear for Valentine's Day.
We feel for Ms. Locklear, but we also are sympathetic to the thousands of other women who each year make a similar discovery about their husbands. Internet affairs are every bit as devastating as other types of affairs. In fact, they may be worse because the proof is in writing - often very explicit writing.
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