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Peter Cook Swears to Barbara Walters He's Not a ''Scum Bag Pervert''

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(Oct. 8) -- Christie Brinkley's ex-husband Peter Cook sits down for his first interview since the nasty divorce trial that rocked headlines this past summer.
Barbara Walters nabbed the exclusive for this Friday's 20/20. While we have yet to see the full video, ABC News promises that Walters covers "what went wrong, his affair with a teenager and the $300,000 payout to her, his reported $3,000-a-month Internet pornography addiction and why he was willing to have his dirtiest secrets revealed in the fight over access to their children after the divorce." Watch Barbara Walters Preview Her Interview with Peter Cook

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Fast Forward to Some Highlights:
· Why Did He Have an Affair with Diana Bianchi? "I was seeking a connection I could not find in my own marriage. I think the emotional aspect of our lives had changed. I think we were both feeling more like we were living with a brother and sister than a life partner. I think I just suddenly realized when I was getting attention from someone else that this is something that is missing in my life."
· Why Is He Speaking Out Now?"My hope is that the world will see that I'm not the scum bag pervert that I've been painted to be," he said. "The misinformation that came out during the trial is the elephant in the room. It's the elephant in the room for my kids. And I'm hoping maybe if I can correct some of the wrongs."
· Will Brinkley See His Interview? "I don't think I can avoid that. But I think if she does, what I hope comes of it is that she takes the time to heal herself. And she goes back and remembers that I made a mistake, but that I am that person that she wrote the poems about, that she raved about in magazine articles and anybody who she could get & twist their ear to listen. I am that person today, that I was then."

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TerryJ009

12:15 AMOct 12 2008

HOW MANY TIMES HAS CHRISTIE BEEN MARRIED? 4 TIMES!!!!!!! SHE MIGHT HAVE IT ALL, BUT SHE CAN'T KEEP A HUSBAND!!!!!!! MAYBE SHE A RAGING B---H FROM HELL TO LIVE WITH????? WE DIDN'T LIVE WITH THEM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS!!!!!!!!SHE'S JUST PLAYING ON THE PUBLICS SYMPATHY!

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BenMtz

07:30 PMOct 09 2008

yeha, your right, guess he should have know what he was getting into getting involved with a 4 time marriage american beauty! was not the 4 marriages a red flag to this guy?

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Teracali

06:56 PMOct 09 2008

Make that an excuse making coward. Typed to fast and forgot the "n". :-)Gotta have the right grammar when you respond to a scumbag...

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Teracali

06:42 PMOct 09 2008

Peter Cook is a excuse making coward. Christie didn't divorce a man, she divorced a cowardly little boy. He's pathetic.

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LINDASPATARO

06:36 PMOct 09 2008

you sorry ass pervert. I can't wait til your kids are old enough to google your name cause yoou ain't coming up a nobel prize winner. how are you oging to explain that? I can't believ you have the audacity to justify what you did. annyone who's been married for ten-twenty years knows that the puppy love sht is out the window........If you could do it all over again you would say no...so you should have known the outcome before hand...temptation is everyday, but you should have known better. now the world knows you didn't

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LINDASPATARO

06:31 PMOct 09 2008

you egotistical moron,if your not a scum bag pervert then i guess you think your father of the year? to have a "connection" with a teenager at 50 something years old? the only connection you had there was between your two heads. and why did you then pay 300,000 to get rid of your "connection" and why aren't you still with her now......face it you just wanted to get laid...asshle

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cocodiedie

06:10 PMOct 09 2008

If the marriage was that deteriorated, he should have WALKED not CHEATED! Grow some balls and quit making excuses. Puh-lease!

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Margbrown43

06:02 PMOct 09 2008

Just another case of someone not taking responsibility for their own actions. She MADE him do it. Good grief.

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BenMtz

05:56 PMOct 09 2008

hmm, so let me see, she has been married 4 times and then starts treating him more like a brother even though he is her husband, friend, lover and what have you and he starts making a move on another gal to get what he was not getting from CB, and he is scumb bag pig?, interesting???, only from american women would u get these sort of comments, wonder what it wold be like if the shoe was on the other foot???

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McDonaldsMcdd

05:32 PMOct 09 2008

WHAT A PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING. ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC!D

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