Toni McHugh reveals more details about affair with Gerard Baden-Clay to Womens Weekly associate editor Caroline Overington.
Gerard Baden Clay's mistress Toni McHugh Source: Channel 9
THE former lover of convicted murderer, Gerard Baden-Clay has given an "exclusive tell-all interview" to The Australian Women's Weekly , but given the wave of contempt she was hit with after her recent 60 Minutes interview, you do wonder why.
There is nothing the unfortunate Ms McHugh can say to appease the tide of bitterness towards her already flowing through Australian social media and blogs.
The Weekly posted its teaser for the story on its website today, and already the poison is flowing in, with readers going so far as to suggest the magazine has brought "shame" on itself by even speaking with McHugh.
This woman is not only being punished for her role in the desperate unhappiness of Allison Baden-Clay prior to her murder, but appears to have become the focus of anger and disgust felt for marital infidelity generally.
Despite the fact she did no more or less than so many others who have engaged in extramarital affairs, McHugh is being widely held up as the universal symbol of the demon mistress.
Like the personalised and general abuse aimed at her in the early comments on The Weekly's post, the comment stream on an article by wronged wife Elizabeth Stewart on the women's website Mamamia, should have been reason enough for the former Brisbane real estate agent to have received the message it's not worth sticking your head above the parapet again.
Toni McHugh in a photoshoot for The Australian Women's Weekly. Photo: AWW. Source: Supplied
In an article headed 'Don't You Dare Tell Me To Feel Sorry For Toni McHugh', Elizabeth Stewart wrote on 22 July:
"On Sunday night I got into a fight on Facebook.
"Let's all remember Toni McHugh is not to blame for the murder of Allison Baden-Clay!!!!!" wrote one of my friends. "I feel sorry for her. She's been punished enough!"
I saw red and I said as much.
Don't you DARE ask me or any other woman whose husband has cheated on them to feel 'sorry' for the mistress.
Don't ask me to see her point of view. To hear her side of the story. Don't ask me to do anything other than despise the woman who actively chose to co-create a web of lies that would impact my kids and me.
Toni McHugh has been punished enough? Please. She's not a victim here ...
If you're reading this right now and you're having an affair with someone you know is married, let me tell you something.
Toni McHugh and Gerard Baden Clay. Source: Channel 9
Every time you 'sneak out' a lie is told at home to a waiting spouse who in turn starts to get worried or suspicious. When they express those fears, they are nearly always told by their cheating partner that they're 'imagining things' or paranoid. And so the mind games begin.
Every time you have carefree sex with the candles and the music, there is a spouse at home hanging out washing, dealing with tantrums, paying the bills and wondering what the hell to get HIS MOTHER for her birthday."
Such was vitriol hurled at McHugh in 350 comments that Mamamia, to its credit, appears to have closed access to them now. To say that post did not bring out the best in readers is 2014's greatest understatement.
That comments made it plain that such is the contempt for this woman, the only things to potentially benefit from future interviews would be would McHugh's financial bottom line and hate-click traffic numbers for the publication.
The Weekly would appear to be tapping into the prevailing sentiment about McHugh in it's write-off, published today on the its website:
"What kind of woman has an affair with a married man? It's not an easy question to answer, but Toni McHugh did it. She had an affair with Gerard Baden-Clay, who was this month convicted of the murder of his beautiful wife, Allison.
Toni McHugh and Gerard Baden Clay. Source: Channel 9
"She was planning a future with him — and with his children. She thought they'd all be able to play happy families together. This obviously isn't what Allison's children ever would have wanted. What they wanted — what they still want — is their Mum.
Still, Toni feels no responsibility for what happened to Allison."
And look, perhaps the judgmental tone is to be expected, as the magazine eagerly taps into the fashion for contempt of Toni McHugh. But is it responsible?
Toni McHugh is not the devil, nor is she alone in having lead a marital double-life. Her relationship with Baden-Clay was destructive, sure, but she is not the perpetrator of Allison Baden-Clay's awful, tragic and inexcusable demise.
She must not be chastised vicariously for the unhappiness of everyone whose partner has strayed, as seems to be happening.
She is no paragon of marital virtue, but the real contempt should be reserved for murderer Gerard Baden-Clay.
Agreed, Toni McHugh is not a victim. And neither is she a criminal. She should be left alone now to try to reconstruct a life. And she should certainly stop talking.
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