Fergie’s chutzpah survival

Anybody else would have crumpled in shame at being exposed to the world, by the News of the World, as a money-grubbing fraudster or liar, but Rhoda has to applaud Fergie (aka Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York) for her chutzpah, her ability to brazen out a bad situation, and considering that she’s already survived and thrived after the infamous toe-sucking incident while married to the Queen’s second son, she thinks that Fergie may actually have the intuitive ability to turn her present bad situation around to her own advantage.

“When she left London after the ‘sting’ she was reported as being devastated,” says Rhoda, “but at the Los Angeles presentation of an award for her services to the children’s charity, Variety, she flippantly brushed off the incident as some sort of stuffy old folks’ grievance against her – rather than the serious situation it was – and, basking in the adulation of fellow celebrities, earned Simon Cowell’s description of her as a ‘trouper’, someone who can rise above adversity.”

“I have a great deal of sympathy for Fergie because my circumstances are similar to hers,” confides Rhoda, “but her naïve attempt to sell access to her government employed ex-husband was actually fraud (if the Duke of York was complicit in the deal) or a lie (if he had no inkling of what she was doing), and in both instances her acceptance of a wad of cash for the deal could be seen as tax evasion.”

“The Duke of York has denied complicity,” says Rhoda, “so that makes Fergie a bare faced liar, doesn’t it?”

“Buoyed by the awards night of celebration, the Duchess then turned up in New York to do some shopping in preparation for an appearance at the Book Expo America conference, waved gaily for the photographers and again joked about her situation on camera while promoting her new series of ‘Helping Hand Books’ aimed at kids going through growing pains.”

“I have to laugh because in her situation I would have made excuses and gone into hiding, but then I have never indulged in toe-sucking with my financial advisor or money-grubbing with a shady sheik,” laughs Rhoda. “I guess when you are programmed to live on the edge like Fergie does you must also be programmed with survival skills like a very thick skin and a lot of chutzpah.”

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