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Originally Posted by Bryter Layter
So he did have girlfriends? I'm so confused! So he was downplaying his relationship issues to the press?
I think he probably had decided he was going to split by the time of this interview so it's likely a lot of his responses were designed to paint a heavily orchestrated picture. As I mentioned previously, he had told Simon Price she was the only person he slept with in 1993 (clearly lies as we all know. LOL!). I doubt he had a platonic relationship with her which is why her being 15 when they first started hanging out, is creepy. That's not a slight in anyway against her. He was an adult, she was a kid.
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I think it’s an absolutely humongous stretch to call his relationship with Jo that of A Girlfriend. The book suggests Terri Hall not knowing her as Richey’s girlfriend shows that Terri knew nothing, when in fact it shows that Richey did not consider Jo that way. They hung out on and off - very mostly off it seems - between her being 15 and 19. She was the only one around to pin a desperate vaguery on. Ain’t no E=mc2.
Oh for sure he was trying to give a certain impression, but as I’ve said before that whole interview is massively curious in myriad ways. These are just a few of them. Also begs the question, what picture and why? If he’s trying to give an impression it’s very unclear. The relationship may have been platonic turned not - I strongly suspect that whole thing of Richey forcing himself into experiences/modelling life rather than living it. Regardless it is indeed... all that
EFIT: just to make v clear this is my interpretation of the information available. Obviously that’s all we can go off.