And that was the year in which his marriage fell apart, and his show was kind of coming into its own. Initially, I was gonna talk to both him and Ottavia together; that was something that he said very certainly was going to happen, in the early going. He really wanted me to meet her, and I did, too. I kept pushing for the three of us to hang out. It felt to me as though, at the beginning of that year, it was important for him to project an image that this was a relationship that was really working.
But while we were together, and things were going well, I thought he was actually very levelheaded, and he really had always thought about the well-being of Ariane, or my well-being, before deciding to do something or not. As a dad, he was always the good cop.
I think it was fair, because he was around so little, so when he was home, there was no enforcing homework, there was no discipline.
And I kind of realized when I was younger that, Oh, not a lot of kids fall asleep to Dexter. I remember him struggling to put my Barbie DreamHouse together. He played with me all the time, he went with it.
Those two places were our favorites. I think my mom knew, but he would make it seem like we were on this mission. Why would it take us twenty minutes to get the newspaper? And especially in the summer, when we would rent a house in the Hamptons for a month, and they were really cooking together, and spending so much time together, and going to the beach together.
