Although they were briefly married in 2006-’07, there is apparently no love lost between Jennifer Esposito and ex-husband Bradley Cooper, with the former Blue Bloods star calling her ex a “master manipulator”; in a new book.
According to a story in The New York Daily News, the book (which chronicles her struggles with celiac disease) also includes a thinly veiled reference to the Silver Linings Playbook star. While she doesn’t mention Bradley by name, Jennifer writes about an ex who was “funny, smart, cocky, arrogant and a master manipulator,”; which led her to ignore “an entire marching band squad of red flags.”;
Describing Jennifer’s comments in the book, Jennifer’s Way, The Daily News writes: “They quickly became a couple, although the actress says her boyfriend had a “mean, cold side’ and “his personality could flip on a dime.’ Esposito claims the relationship was an unhealthy one, focused primarily on his needs and nothing else and that she was “a nonissue.’ Esposito also writes that she felt “sidelined’ from her own health and needs. “I became very sad and I felt very alone,’ Esposito adds, but she stayed in the relationship just the same. The union came to an impasse when Esposito attended a seminar at the Agape International Spiritual Center in L.A. “Within days, my relationship hit an all-time low, and within a week it was over,’ she wrote. “Abruptly, rudely, and with the exact callousness that I’d come to expect from him.'”;
In a 2011 interview with Howard Stern (as reported in Us Weekly), Bradley described his four-month marriage to Jennifer as “just something that happened. The good thing is, we both realized it … Sometimes you just realize it … It just wasn’t right. It’s interesting … things happen!”;