It's mostly the making of money out of it which bothers me. She came up with an excuse as to why she sold her story, but she kept the money - it's awful.
Okay, so it wasn't her finest hour. She probably breathed a huge sigh of relief that she got out of it as unscathed as she did, albeit with her reputation in tatters. She was never going to get a teaching position here, but with that sort of cash at her disposal there was no reason why she couldn't have done some voluntary teaching abroad whilst she worked out what to do next. I wonder what might her other options have been. By the time that dreadful article with it equally appalling accompanying picture were released, she'd already been labeled -and I was one of those who labeled her!- so she had little to lose by that expose. At 22, she may well have thought "What the Hell?".
Julie isn't alone in making money from it, and I'm not condoning anything she did. I'm tired of being accused of such. MUCH of what I thought about her, when I believed in Jeremy's innocence, hasn't changed. Like those who commit heinous crimes, she will never not have to live with that she loved, and shared a bed with, someone convicted of 5 murders. She may have had a £25,000 pay off, but I guessing she's learned that there's no such thing as a free lunch.
