Video -- Tina Fey's Husband Jeff Richmond Talks About Her Scar to Vanity Fair
First time I've ever heard the story. Doesn't really matter much, but you'll find the story horrifying for young Tina, who was five years old and playing in her front yard when a stranger just slashed her face.
I'm absolutely filled with rage about this. And I realize it was a long time ago and I don't know Tina Fey but I'm still just fuming.
How could anyone do that to a child? A child you don't know! Not that that's better than a child that you DO know ... I'm just in fits over this.
I'm trying to convince myself that maybe without this happening in her life Tina Fey wouldn't have been the woman she is today. I'm sure that's true, in fact. But I just wanna hold little five-year-old Tina in my arms.
And then I wanna find that guy and ... bring him to justice? No. Worse. And I know that's bad and wrong and all that but that's how I feel about such things.
Crimes against children really upset me.
Picture to the right is Tina, Jeff and their daughter Alice with Snow White at Disney World.
The story in the January issue is at this link and written by Maureen Dowd, the NY Times op-ed columnist.
“That scar was fascinating to me,” Richmond recalls. “This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life. When you have that kind of thing happen to you, that makes you scared of certain things, that makes you frightened of different things, your comedy comes out in a different kind of way, and it also makes you feel for people.”
I wonder how the scar affected Fey in high school. “She wasn’t Rocky Dennis developing a sense of humor because of her looks, like in Mask,” says Damian Holbrook, laughing. Liz Lemon’s blustery Republican boss, Jack Donaghy, played with comic genius by Alec Baldwin, tells Lemon, “I don’t know what happened in your life that caused you to develop a sense of humor as a coping mechanism. Maybe it was some sort of brace or corrective boot you wore during childhood, but in any case I’m glad you’re on my team.”
On the lighter side, there's some great video at the Vanity Fair site of the photo shoot that resulted in all the pics including the cover shot above, and it's after the jump.
