Bipolar disorder

...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b and described himself as 'relatively insane'.In August 1998, when Ronnie went to court to begin her protracted but ultimately successful suit for the retrieval of unpaid royalties amounting to $2 million, she claimed he had frequently pulled a gun on her during their marriage and even once threatened to kill her unless she surrendered custody of the couple's children.

Last year, though, when she was door-stepped by the New York Daily News after his arrest, she seemed to have revised her opinion somewhat.

'I'm, like, devastated, really,' she said.

'He was my husband, you know.

I had never seen him violent like that, with a gun or anything.

I feel awful.

I don't think he would do anything like this.' When reminded by the reporter of her previous court testimony that her ex-husband had once tried to kill her, she added.

'Not personally, though, that was with a hit man.' The absence of irony in that last statement speaks volumes about Ronnie Spector's singular worldview.I ask her, in conclusion, if she has any regrets.

She pauses for perhaps the first time in the interview.

'Put it this way, I used to cry myself to sleep every night.

I missed singing so much.

And performing.

Man, I missed it so much.

I'd go to the studio but the records never came out and I never knew why.

I cried too when I lost my apartment on Riverside Drive, that was my dream home.

I used to walk by there every day as a kid and say, "One day ...

one day ...

" I made it there, then I lost it.

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