What I wish I would have shared on Dr. Drew is that I am a person who has had compassion for Jodi throughout the trial. Not so much that I would excuse what she did; but in that I have had friends who have dated cads who cheated on/with them, I know a woman who was an abuse victim who went back (moved states) to be with her abuser. The honeymoon was always worth it to her.
Anyway, there were things that Jodi said that rang true to me, which allowed me to feel for her. Those feelings of compassion were consistently and methodically whittled away by the defense team, however, and by her last day of cross by Kirk Nurmi, it was all gone. When she stated that at his memorial service she was sad but she "knew he was in a better place", I was so engraged. Yes, I believe in Heaven, but who gave YOU the right to send him there, Jodi?! And her self-serving claim of feeling forgiveness from his spirit; just wow. The final straw for me though, was when she talked about her "failed attempt at suicide" and how when she knicked herself and it was like a papercut and it stung really bad so she couldn't continue, that's when it finally clicked for me.
She is NOTHING like me or my friends. She is nothing like my friend who moved states, for her abuser. She is a psychopath, an alien. An abberation.
