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Ex Blames Brinkley for Affair

Lack of emotional connection prompted cheating, Cook tells Walters

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 8, 2008 3:03 PM CDT

(Newser) – Christie Brinkley’s adulterous ex-husband said that he cheated on the former supermodel because she did not offer the emotional connection he needed, ABC News reports. In an interview to be broadcast Friday, Peter Cook told Barbara Walters that by 2005 he and Brinkley felt “more like we were living with a brother and sister than a life partner.”

Cook didn’t feel Brinkley acknowledged “the tremendous amount of work I was putting into” the family, making him feel like an add-on, a “guest in someone else’s life.” He also lashed out at the widely circulated reports of his affairs and addiction to Internet porn, calling them “misinformation.” “I'm not the scumbag pervert that I've been painted to be," he told Walters.

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In this July 2, 2008, file photo, Christie Brinkley arrives at New York State Supreme Court in Central Islip for the beginning of her divorce trial against Peter Cook. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

In this Sept. 21, 1996 file photo provided by Rogers and Cowan, supermodel Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook pose on their wedding day at their home in Bridgehampton, N.Y. (AP Photo/ROGERS & COWAN INC., Jann Gamblin, File)

In this July 2, 2008, file photo, Peter Cook arrives at New York State Supreme Court in Central Islip, N.Y., for the beginning of his divorce trial against Christie Brinkley. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Christie Brinkley and husband Peter Cook arrive at the Bloomberg party following the annual White House Correspondents'' dinner May 4, 2002 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)

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I wanted a little acknowledgment, a little attention, a little thank you every now and then for my efforts. - Peter Cook

I think the emotional aspect of our lives had changed. I think I just suddenly realized when I was getting attention from someone else that this is something that is missing in my life. - Peter Cook

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Ex Blames Brinkley for Affair