Apparently Madoff and his wife attempted suicide shortly after his Ponzi scheme was discovered. From what I can tell there's no proof of this other than Ruth Madoff's word given the couple said they took sleeping pills but then woke up in the morning (so I'm assuming there's no hospital records of any attempt).
I don't know, to me this smells like PR spin. A desperate attempt to reframe the story of Madoff as being not such a bad guy. After all, if he felt so guilty as to attempt suicide, could he really be that bad?
When the abuser tries to reframe themselves as one of the victims, your 'bullshit' radar has to go off and you have to really be suspicious of the messages being put forth.
Madoff was a criminal that stole other people's money and destroyed lives - he's as far from a victim as you can get. He was a bad bad guy. His actions ultimately contributed to, or at least one has to assume they did, to his son committing suicide.
The video below, by author Diana Henriques, suggests Madoff on some level perhaps realizes just what a bad guy he was and that on some level there is guilt within him.
I don't know, to me this smells like PR spin. A desperate attempt to reframe the story of Madoff as being not such a bad guy. After all, if he felt so guilty as to attempt suicide, could he really be that bad?
When the abuser tries to reframe themselves as one of the victims, your 'bullshit' radar has to go off and you have to really be suspicious of the messages being put forth.
Madoff was a criminal that stole other people's money and destroyed lives - he's as far from a victim as you can get. He was a bad bad guy. His actions ultimately contributed to, or at least one has to assume they did, to his son committing suicide.
The video below, by author Diana Henriques, suggests Madoff on some level perhaps realizes just what a bad guy he was and that on some level there is guilt within him.
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