Tricia Walsh-Smith- The YouTube Superstar

Tricia Walsh-Smith made herself into a YouTube super-star by posting a 6 minute rant against her then-husband, Schubert Organization president Philip J. Smith. It received over 3 million hits.

I guess her divorce wasn't going to be messy enough. She tried to take it up a notch.

She is the shining example that money does not buy class. Not only does she publicly try to humiliate and embarrass her husband, she names who he is and where he works. This was much more than a video rant by an angry wife. This was an out right attack not only her husband but his daughter too.

She doesn't just make one video, get it off her chest and let it go. No, she makes three of them.

Yet, she doesn't understand why her husband is dumping her. Tricia, I suggest you watch your own videos; it might enlighten you a bit. To help you understand, I have watched them. I'll walk you through where the problems are, okay?

YouTube Video #1- The one that started it all (6 minutes 22 seconds)

The video starts out with a smiling Tricia standing in her kitchen. The caption under her reads: writer/actress/good egg.

The first thing she says is that she is in New York and she should be in London. Apparently she is unhappy with being in New York.

She clears up that her husband Philip J. Smith is 25 years older than her and his daughter is around her age. She then immediately jumps into talking about the clause in her prenuptial agreement that states he can throw her out of the New York apartment in 30 days.

She says he has to have grounds for divorce and that he doesn't (really?) but he is trying to get her out of the apartment anyway.

She starts to cry, throws her hands in the air and says "I don't know why."

That first 44 seconds of the first video was the only time I felt sorry for her. I got over it real quick.

Now, she continues on about a conversation she had with Philip about when he dies. If he dies she gets 1.5 million dollars a year for the rest of her life and his Florida apartment.

"But what happens to my pension if he has a stroke?" She wants to know. This seems to be where the war of the Smiths started. She says that he told her the money would go into her account but that isn't good enough for our little gold-digging super-star. His daughter has control over the accounts, the nine rooms Park Avenue apartment (that Tricia is standing in during the video) and his 60 million dollar estate.

Imagine that, a wealthy man putting his trust in his daughter to handle his affairs should something happen to him. Not only that but that the bulk of his fortune that he worked for and earned would go to his own children. Tricia has been his wife for nine whole years. They had a fight over it, things got nasty and she says she went back to London to start her life again.

So far all I get from this video is that Philip is a smart, wealthy, family man who protected his money and Tricia was a ticked off gold digger that was mad because she wasn't getting it.

"I am an idiot. I am the biggest f'ing idiot in the world." Tricia says in tears.

At least she got something right. She was talking about making this video, right?

She then turns to her Tarot cards and pulls one off the top and declares "Victory!"

Okay, whatever. At this point, about 2 minutes into the video I was bored and almost shut it off.

The video is heavily edited and cuts quite a bit. Just as I reached for my mouse she cuts back in babbling on about calling him and putting the video on you tube then suddenly says "Oh and another thing, we never had sex."

Just like that. Mid-sentence, �Å"we never had sex.'

Okay, I'll give the video another minute. I've already drawn my own conclusions why Philip wouldn't have touched her with a rented penis but to be fair I'll listen to her side.

She said he claimed it was because he had high blood pressure and because he was older. She says she accepted that. Then when they started fighting over money, she went through his things and found "Viagra, porn movies and condoms."

I hate the way she pronounces condoms too by the way. It sounds like she is saying cone-domes. It took me a minute to figure out she wasn't talking about some kind of snack cake or something.

So Tricia went through his private things and decided a great idea would be to announce this to the world via you tube.

And she still scratches her head wondering why Philip wouldn't trust her? Really?

The conclusion I got from that discovery (besides the fact that she totally invaded his privacy) was he just wasn't having sex with her. And really at this point, I doubt there would have been a single person on earth who would have blamed him.

But then again, how do we know that she didn't refuse to have sex with him and that's why he owned those things? Either way, wouldn't that alone be grounds for divorce?

She then calls his office and speaks with his secretary. She tells the secretary that she and Philip never had sex and to ask him what she should do with his private property. She says twice to the secretary that she is filming for you tube and the poor secretary is caught in the middle and completely off guard. "Wait, wait, wait, wait. You want me to ask him that now?"

It's possible the secretary did have something to say in response to this ridiculous phone call but enough class to restrain her self. Kudos to the secretary. I'm not sure how I would have handled an insane phone call like that.

During the phone call Tricia leans on the counter and grins at the camera like an evil witch.

It was amazing that in span of 3 ½ minutes I went from feeling sorry for her when she started crying to hoping that the arm she was leaning on would slip and she would do a face plant into the counter.

What she did by calling Philip's office and divulging his private matters to his secretary then publishing it for the world to see has to go down in the record books as one of the stupidest things an ex-wife has done. Philip didn't want to give her control of his fortune so she tried to humiliate him.

I hope Mr. Smith realizes that she only succeeded in making herself look like a total fool.

A grown man has a private 'goody-stash.' Stop the presses; he must be the first man in history to own such things and the world needs to know.

The next part of the video she walks around the apartment running her trap about the art on the wall and their wedding album happens to be open on the coffee table. She picks it up (badly acting like she has just discovered it for the very first time) and points out Philips oldest daughter. The caption under the daughter reads 'Nasty, Evil Stepdaughter'.

I take it this is the daughter that is trying to protect her father. Tricia calls her a "bad, bad, bad person."

I must have missed that woman's video. Oh, wait is it possible that woman had some class and didn't make a video?

The rest of the video is a serious snooze-fest except for when she starts to talk about her first play (where she mentions there is a lawsuit out on that too) interestingly enough titled "Bonkers".

Is this what they mean when they say life imitates art? Is it possible this play is an autobiography?

So the end of the video she sums up by saying that her husband has no grounds for divorce (again, really?) and that she will be evicted out of her apartment and will only get $750,000.

Uh, sorry? What world does she live in where that kind of money isn't enough to live on? If someone would like to give me $750,000 I can prove that it is in fact, enough to live on okay?

Her final attempt at kicking the poor guy in the inseam is where the camera zooms in to a close-up of Philip's picture and the caption under it reads "Mean, bad husband."

This woman needs to spend 10 minutes in a woman's abuse shelter or at least come out from under that rock she's been living under. She hasn't got the first clue on what a 'mean, bad husband' is.

She raises her first and declares herself a warrior.

That made me spit coffee.

Just when you think she can't be any crazier, she creates...

YouTube Video #2- The finger-shaking shame (4 minutes 19 seconds)

I'll be honest; when I first saw there was another video by her I just couldn't believe it. Does this woman have no friends at all? There wasn't one person in her life that could have said "Hey Tricia, you're making a fool out of yourself. Stop it."

Like a train wreck, you can't help but watch it. I've been sucked into this you tube soap opera and I just had to hear what other nutty things she had to say. This was turning into my afternoon entertainment.

The dramatic music starts very loudly and I nearly have a heart attack. I missed what was written in the opening-something about a phoenix rising from the ashes or some fool thing. I'm just grateful to be alive after that jump start to my chest.

Tricia Walsh-Smith greets the viewers and tells us that the last few weeks have been tough. She admits that the last video was outrageous but she felt she needed to get attention to her plight because in New York if you don't have money, you're screwed.

There are a lot of people in New York that have been laid off from their jobs, lost their homes to foreclosure and are living in shelters that already knew that. I looked but I didn't find any of their videos on YouTube.

For a split second I thought that she was going to be calm and explain herself. She starts off sounding like a sane person until she talks about paperwork she was served with.

On March 10^th Philip J. Smith had Tricia Walsh-Smith served with paperwork stating that he was divorcing her for cruel and inhuman behavior.

Go Philip! He must have seen the video or spoke with his poor secretary.

The entire video goes straight into the crapper from here and she's only 40 seconds into it. She claims that the only cruel behavior she ever did to Philip was make him have skim milk in his cappuccino and then goes on to say that she did "sneak wheat grass into his freshly made vegetable juice."

I'm now scared for Philip. I think someone needs to take him to the hospital for a toxicology report.

I had to laugh when she spits hatefully at the camera "I loved and adored him."

Okay. Was there more to that sentence? Maybe something along the lines of she loved and adored his money more?

I'm now so worried about Philip and what else she may have snuck into his food and drinks that I can't focus on the legal garbage she's babbling on about. From the sounds of it, I guess she's got to get out of his apartment.

This video like the last one is really choppy in the editing. She complains about money (shocking) and having to pay lawyers. If she had read the prenuptial agreement she signed before they got married, she would have saved a bunch of money on lawyers, I think.

Apparently one lawyer dumped her. She claims it's because she wouldn't go on the Today show with him but I'm willing to bet there is more to that story that we haven't heard yet.

She brags on about being in commercials and having worked all her life however, I've never heard of her. She throws in the fact that he father died when she was young. (I think that is a little sympathy shopping myself. My father died when I was young too. What does that have to do with anything?)

Then she continues without taking a breath about plays that she has written and accuses their failures on Philip. Tricia claims that she didn't marry Philip for his money that she has always made her own money...

So then, with that being said 2:49 into the video, what's the point of the videos?

Then it dawns on me. Of course. This is a promotion for her silly plays, isn't it? I'm watching a creative commercial, aren't I?

Brilliant.

She throws another sympathy plug on losing her father. Mine is still gone too.

Now 3:20 she's gone totally off her rocker again. She is accusing people who work for her husband (and mentions once again that it is the Schubert Organization in case anyone missed it in the first video) of slandering her name.

No, I don't think so. You aired you dirty laundry on YouTube. We can all see it for ourselves, thanks.

3 minutes and 22 seconds into the video is the absolutely funniest things I have seen her do yet. I had to back it up and watch it a couple of times because it made me laugh so hard.

She gives the camera the evil eye, shakes her finger into the camera and yells "Shame on you!"

I wonder if I can get that as my ring tone on my cell phone.

She loses it completely and goes on to ask "What if it was the 16^th century? What would you have done? Put me in the stocks and thrown rotten tomatoes at me? I'm speaking my truth!"

Huh? I'm confused here. So it's okay for her to create a video about her husband and say the terrible things she said about him and try to embarrass him but when people aren't agreeing with her and call her a gold digger (or whatever they called her) that's a problem?

This is a clear cut case of 'can dish it out but can't take it'.

I guess in life there is 'her truth' and 'our reality'. Did she honestly believe that she was going to get a ton of sympathy from people who, I believe for the most part, struggle to make ends meet week to week and she's whining about receiving more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes because that's not good enough for her?

Again, I would like to show Tricia that a person can live on $750,000 if anyone has that to spare so I can prove it to her.

She turns to her Tarot cards again. She pulls the 'courage' card.

Yeah, I'm going to give the cards that one. This video definitely took some courage to do.

She says that she has to go to court because Philip wants her out of the apartment and she hopes we'll all donate money and help her buy a tent.

What I really need to know is how expensive are tents in New York anyway? Goodness. No wonder she is so worried and obsessed over money, she has no concept of the value of anything.

The end of the video is a third sympathy plug for her father dieing so I guess it's going to be the third time I mention my father died too. Have we worked that to death yet Tricia?

Just when I think I can go find something else to do with the rest of my day I notice there is a...

YouTube Video #3- Tricia Walsh-Smith begs us for money (7 minutes 14 seconds)

Can I sit through another video of hers? I find myself having to because in the first one she tries to embarrass and humiliate Philip, (and fails in my eyes. She only embarrassed herself) the second she admits openly to sneaking things into his drink, (is there a cop reading this or watching these videos? Isn't there a law against that?) I need to find out for Philips sake what happens next.

The video starts with her opening a door and smiling. She welcomes the camera and tells us she is in London.

Thank goodness for the United States but sad for our friends on that side of the pond. I send my condolences to you England.

The caption under Tricia Walsh-Smith reads: YouTube Superstar and Warrior.

Whatever.

She starts right off with telling the camera that when Philip Smith wanted to divorce her, she found out through Cindy Adams, the New York Post gossip columnist.

So in the last video she sympathy shopped using her dad and now she's name dropping in this one. Okay, got it.

Tricia continues with her commercial (because I have concluded that this is all this video really is, a long commercial for her silly plays) by admitting she was in rehab, she was broke, she was evicted and that she has been sober for 14 years.

Then she mentions that her brother wasn't so lucky and committed suicide by hanging himself.

Tricia, my older brother put a 357 Magnum pistol in his mouth when he decided to end his life. I'm positive this is where the similarities in our lives end.

She goes on about a film company following her story and that is where the phoenix from the ashes thing comes from. She sarcastically says they were doing her story because she "lost everything and I kind of climbed back up and got my life back together, ho-ho-ho."

$750,000 is NOT losing everything. I'll say it one more time- if anyone wants me to prove that to her just send me a check.

She starts again on poor Philip and how she just couldn't leave New York because he was going to change the locks on his apartment and all her things were in there. (Guess she's never heard of moving companies?)

This caused an unbelievable chain reaction too. Because she couldn't leave New York, she couldn't put on her play and because of that all the addicts with have to keep "snorting, shooting and boozing because help isn't on the way. Thank you Philip."

Let it go already lady. Seriously move on. You are not behaving like a healthy person.

Even less healthy, you putting on the music and dancing around like an idiot. During her dance she goes on about some lawsuit she is in the middle of over her play "Bonkers".

The song is her theme song also titled "Bonkers". Interesting, don't you think?

One she is finished dancing the video cuts to her in the kitchen. Now we are going to get down to the real point of her really long commercial.

Tricia Walsh-Smith has the outright nerve to say she is a warrior for other women. She says that we struggled for the vote and we struggled for equal wages and that men are threatened by a strong woman.

I don't think that's it at all. Men don't like seeing women like this that take advantage of a man just for his money.

She continues on that women have written to her YouTube account and they are all totally behind her. I know there is a question about her ability to read or at least comprehend what she is reading (I refer back to the prenuptial agreement that caused the entire video stardom in the first place) but she and I aren't reading the same things.

Last time I checked my panties, I was a woman. I couldn't agree less with this woman if I tried.

She says that women have said to her "Hey sister, get a paypal account."

So she has.

I don't know about you, but I am just so shocked by this.

Well, shocked that she didn't think it up sooner anyway.

She wants everyone who watches her video to send her one dollar. She promises that all the money left over from fighting her husband will be used to form a foundation called Woman Warriors of the World United to help other women in her position.

Is that position standing up?

Tricia hopes that she won't even need the money. She was hoping that her husband would settle but he was going like a demon and trying to destroy her. I guess her perception of destroying her is holding up the prenuptial agreement that she signed.

I can't help but wonder what she thinks she's doing. Let's summarize this, shall we?

YouTube Video #1- She blabs his private business to the world.

YouTube Video #2- She admits to sneaking things in his drinks.

YouTube Video #3- She blames him for addicts continuing to abuse substances.

Tricia finalizes this mess by saying that her victory is our victory. She smiles big and throws her fist in the air and declares "Women Warriors!"

She got $750,000. I need a car Tricia. Something in a cute black convertible will be fine. I'm not even fussy; I'll take a used one.

And finally, she's back to the Tarot cards. The card she tosses down is 'Brilliant idea'. Maybe she'll come up with one?

I don't have Tarot cards so I had to use regular cards. I came up with the Joker. Ironic.

Final thoughts on Tricia Walsh-Smith;

Shame on you Tricia. There are woman in this world that have real issues of abuse. There are women who truly have no where to turn and no where to go. They suffer and die at the hands of abusers everyday.

You are nothing but warrior of money motivated simply by greed. How dare YOU?

You found a lonely, wealthy man -in poor health- who probably longed for companionship and took advantage of him. When he didn't give you enough materiality you tried to hurt him-to destroy him.

You publicly attacked his daughter when she tried to protect her father from you. Where you just mad that she saw through you?

You, in my personal opinion are the lowest common denominator of women. Never stand up and say you are fighting for other women unless you have spent one night in a woman's abuse shelter.

Find yourself a good therapist with a big screwdriver and get your screws tightened.

And not that I believe he will ever read this but to Mr. Philip J. Smith- I hope you live a long(er) happier life now that this person is out of it. I hope this woman hasn't tarnished you against all women and I hope you find happiness with someone someday soon.

And the lawyer who wrote your prenuptial agreement should get a raise.

Thank goodness the judge on this case saw this woman for what she really is and granted Mr. Smith a divorce on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment.

No kidding, huh?