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“BEYOND REASON

The Margaret Trudeau, Story

continued from page Cl

the hospital grounds like vul-

tures, reporting that I was in

hospital for an abortion. 1 was
thin, disheveled, gaunt.

Vhy don't you leave me

T asked them. “Can't

compassion for

suffering from

stress, Please

ent, and rather lo
my surprise my — statement
brought me sympathy, encour.
agement and flowers from
every corner of the country.
Pierre seemed pleased to
see me and I was home in time
to accompany him to Europe for
the NATO summit, It wasn’t an
easy trip. Pierre continued to
eye me with doubt and I took
refuge as frequently as 1 felt [
dared to in quick puffs of mari-

to Ottawa
w how T had

eT must get off

dru; k after week T lay

speechless and furious on his
‘ouch,

Finally, | smoked not one

but two string joints before

etting “out for one of my

appointments. No sooner was I

etUed in his office than I began

to talk. I told’ him about my ° a

THE FAMOUS mini dress (hardly) that shot me to infamy (again) .
Margaret Trudeau

at the White House.
my childhood, my

ec he said, “you

‘ean do it, you know, without

Tlaughed. I never went

while, on the doctor's
aid consented to.

= WITH MOMMY AWAY, nannies Monica and Leslie guard over
my three sons ata parliamentary Christmas party.

« Margeret Trudeau

Pita sgih 8 Y.

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WITH MY TWO BOYS, Micha and Justin, on a visit to my paren-

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allow me to fly to the United
States for a brief clarifying
mecting with my friend, Both f
them agreed that it was merely
an unhealthy obsession, best
cleared up.

The arrangement was that +

I should have dinner with my
friend, agree never to meet
again, sleep the night with
friends and fly home. It didn't
quite work out that way.

When I flew home I swore
to myself that I would never
see him again — or that if] did I
would leave Pierre. 1 kept my
ward,

These were not happy
times for us. Pierre, jealous and

fae

| kept sane by Guedionng
the nurses about their own lives,
and brewing up little pots of what
the doctor took tobe -tea. but
which were in fact sweet potions

of marijuana.

brooding, took it out on me by
leaving me ever more often on
my own, and treating me
coldly, even with hostility,
When we spoke, it was almost
always about the children.

I reacted in the unkindest
way I could. I went back to
smoking marijuana more or less
openly in front of him, some-
limes, if I was desperate
enough, as much as four strong
joints a day.

It became so-that Pierre,
on arriving home, would come
up not to kiss me, but to sniff
me. .I1 brushed my teeth,
washed my face and put on
scent, but [ couldn't stop the
distinctive smell of frass lin-
gering in my hair,

From the day 1 married
Pierre we fought about money.
It proved the material for the
most biller rows of our later
years, Early on he gave me a
$600" allowance a month, to
cover everything except major
bills. When that never seemed
to last the month, he doubled it,
offering me half his salary after
laxes,

My weakness was clothes.
On an early freedom trip to
Rome with two close friends —
Arthur Erikson, the architect,

“rancvesco Kripacz — I had

iL away by the Italian

f and returned home
w h ‘sty 000 worth of couturier
‘wlentino models, Lan-

Ik dresses, trunks of

Exhausted, frantic, | seized a
kitchen knife and rushed out into
the snow. | started tearing off my
clothes to find a bare spot to
plunge the blade in.

MARGARET MEAD and | attend a demonstration calling for

clean water in the world, “

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shoes, bags, hats, Pierre was
not amused.
Most of my clothes came

from Creeds, in Toronto, where, -

defying Pierre's wrath, I simply
le€ my bills run up. The Creeds
Were family friends, and _Si-
mone Creed knew my taste to

+ perfection.

Like all Canadians, she
assumed Pierre was immensely
rich, Just after my breakdown,
or her own initiative, she'sent a

box of clothes she knew that I-

would like to 24 Sussex. Pierre
let me keep them, but warned it
would be the last time.

_ Two Christmases later, an
enormous packet was deliver-
ed. discovered inside the most
splendid white’ parka. jacket,
covered in appliques of birds,
and trimmed with ermine.

“Dear Pierre,” said an
accompanying note, “I know
you don't have time to shop. I
thought you might like to give
this lo Margaret for Christ-
mas." It was signed by Eddy
Creed. When Pierre came home
he read the note, and, ignoring
the fact that I had for ages been
hinting I. wanted a parka,
packed the box again and sent
it back, 4

I never forgave him. Why,

I asked -myself, should Alia -

have an open. account. with
Valentino and a hairdresser to
accompany her on state visits,
while Pierre checked on every
dollar I spent, and seemed to
begrudge me the smallest luxu-
ries?

Michel's birth was a happy
interlude in a pattern of in-
creasing unease. It wasn’t only
that I hated the life — I had
beconie a hateful person my-
self. A spoiled little bitch. 1
sulked if I was asked to attend a
boring reception, and said 1

couldn't go because [had a spot _

on my dress.
The colder Pierre became,

the more hysterical I got. I took *

oul zon-zthe: children, . and
‘ouldn't stand it when the baby

cried. I refused to take them.

out on little outings, gradually
relinquishing their care almost
entirely to the staff. -.

I was quick to lose my
temper. One day a new maid,
asked lo prepared a lunch, cut
an avocado hours before the
meal so that by the time I got to
the dining room it was brown
and lank. I hurled it at the wall.
On another evening Pierre
came home to find me scream-
ing al the boys like a fishwife.

The end came ina series of
inexorable steps. We had a
bleak Christmas on St. Lucia,
the prettiest of all the Carib-

aan islands. Pierre and I lived
locked in our own private
nightmares, made all the stark-
er by the luxury around us, I

* «were hardly serious, but they

+ my pledge that if ever I had

“wife Alia has just been killed in

nO LER NIVS
wrote pages and pages of
letters to Yves, lettors I never
sunk.

Pierre had jong pressed me
lo pursue some interest of my
own. I finally- enrolled at the
Algonquin Junlor College to
study photography. My studies

1 went Boece to aking:
marijuana more or less openly in
“front of him, sometimes, if.1' was.
desperate’ enough, .as ‘muti
four ‘strong Joints’. a’ days
became so: that: :Plerre,.on
arriving home, would come; up
not to kiss me, but {0 sniff me.

gave me the courage to believe
that I could,. perhaps, make a,
protenslonal world for myself

Plerre had me followed to,
make sure’ I ‘was attending

~ school. 1 was.)

‘In early: spring came. our
‘slate visit Lo Washington D.C. I i
made a brief trip to the United
Slates first to open an ‘exhibi-
tion of Canadian artists.

I did see my Southerner.
one more time, And once more
was enough. I realized that it
wasn't he who had destroyed = 4%
my marriage — I had used him
to escape my own unhappiness.

T returned to Ottawa, then
turned round and entered the
United States as the wife of the
Ganadian prime, minister on a
state visit. For the official
dinner with the Carters I put on
my while pearl dress, the one I
had long considered my favor-
ite. It came to three’ inches
above the ankle. Unknown to -
me; there was a run in my
stockings. ~

Next morning there was an
uproar. in the newspapers.
“Mrs. Trudeau and her gaffes!"
“Marguret does it again!".My .
dress had been a disaster. How.
dare I altend a White House
_ banquet i in a dress that didn't
“reach the ground and’ in lad-
dered stockings?

. We returned to Ottawa -
and at the front of my mind was

Pierre and I discussed: our
future calmly. We agreed that
nothing should happen pre-
cipitately. I would leave for a

It was too much for me. It
made a mockery of all our
jons, the way Alia had

kept insisting that everything
would turn out well for both of
we would take it from, there,

pas from Pierre was not official but the world ‘dd
know it when Margaret Trudeau, photographer, celebrated her
new freedom at a Rolling Stone cs concert in Toronto, Next week; in
the last of five
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erner again..I would leave,
Pierre. I might never have kept
that pledge to myself if it hadn't
been for the news that awaited

me. .

TTA fen dns" aha cue ca Concerned

relurn, undecided and fretful, 1 4 S :

went toa cocktail party, A man about:
-Micro-Wave

I knew slightly came up to me.
“Hello, Margaret. Have
you heard the news? Hussein's

a helicopter crash.”
I started’ shaking, Tears
poured down my face.

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