Buttafuoco, now 54 and living with her fiance in California, offers insights into the famed "Long Island Lolita" case in a new book titled "Getting It Through My Thick Skull," Newsday reported Saturday.
"At the beginning," Buttafuoco said, "I was just too sick to leave him."
"I stayed because my children had been through enough trauma. I stayed because I'm a Catholic."
Buttafuoco was shot in the head by Fisher on May 19, 1992, in Massapequa, N.Y., leaving her deaf in one ear and with partial jaw paralysis.
Buttafuoco and her husband separated in 2000 and divorced in 2003, leaving Buttafuoco with experience she now uses to advise others dealing with troubled individuals.
"When you can understand the behavior," she said, "you can break free from it and
never look back."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
Mary Jo Buttafuoco has made
Mary Jo Buttafuoco has made headlines again, this time for publishing a book that details the sociopathic tendencies of her ex-husband, Joey Buttafuoco. Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot in the face by Joey's then 17 year old mistress, Amy Fisher, in 1992, and served five years in prison for the crime. Mary Jo published the book naming Joey as a sociopath, and attempting to educate people on how to recognize if a person in their lives is a sociopath and how to deal with them accordingly.
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