She has also detailed other emotional and verbal abuse. Mr. Porter’s other former wife, Colbie Holderness, has described their relationship as “verbally, emotionally and physically abusive.” She has shared with the press photographs of herself with a black eye and a swollen cheekbone, which Mr. Porter said at the time were misleading. He has denied all allegations of abuse in the past, and did not return calls or respond to text messages on Thursday. The power of Ms. Willoughby’s response to Mr. Porter’s re-emergence might be in its measured manner, in which she weighs how one should be allowed to return to public service after a scandal involving abuse. Mr. Porter, she wrote, should not be “forever barred from using his considerable professional skills and knowledge to make a contribution to our society.” She added that she had no agenda for Mr. Porter’s future and outlined ways that fallen men might succeed in rehabilitating themselves.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2019 23:48 UTC