When love is what you need most in life you end up doing stuff that is irrational, unexplainable, and unethical. Brooke Hundley did the same.
The 22 year old ESPN Production assistant fell in love with Steve Phillips a successful ESPN baseball analyst and a former Major League Baseball manager, who had a wife and 4 children.
Phillips later tried to end the affair but Hundley could not take it and this graduate from Ithaca College became obsessive and delusional when she realized that she was going to lose him.
In her frantic effort to get him back, she wrote a letter to his wife Marni Phillips, about their relationship, that they had been steady for quite some time and had been meeting occasionally in his hotel suite. She wanted him to talk it out with his wife but he had refused to do so.
She added that she was in fact the real person in his life as she cared for his happiness, and had the right to be with him as both of them could not have him.
She emphasized that she was 22, a young and vibrant lady, just the person her husband would want to be with. She also expressed the desire to meet her and explain things to her.
She later tried to contact his son, identifying herself as his High School classmate, asking him personal questions about his family, his parents and their marital status, or the kind of cars they drove or the sports they were interested in, and as time passed the questions kept on getting more and more personal and awkward. And her pursuits continued.
Phillips son on being questioned recalled receiving many friend requests on the facebook from some Brooke Hundley, which he did not accept as he did not know her. In yet another incident, an unknown car hit their trashcan, while the driver frantically pulled back in their driveway when seen by his mother and him. He later received a message from the same girl that, “she had gone to their house to see how nice it was and got scared when his mother pulled in the driveway.”
The outcome? The family is terrified and Phillip’s wife Marni wants a divorce.
As for Brooke Hundley, does she sound like a person who can harm anybody? For me it is just ‘fatal attraction’ and the fear of losing the man she loves, that has driven her that far.
Probably some love, affection, sympathy and guidance is all she needs.