i tried to lead all of my children to the love of jesus christ. there was only one major obstacle to that ever occurring in a way that that i would be happy with. and that was my hypocrisy. what do you mean? huh? your hypocrisy? my hypocrisy chasing women uh-huh. blowing my marriage. as donatells it, women found his role as an ascendant artist quite appealing, never mind he was a married father of four. and that kind of thing destroyed this - literally, destroyed my family. by the time rachel was in middle school, don s string of affairs led to a home-shattering divorce. i think that the the obliteration of the nuclear family had a profound effect on rachel. now he feared the apple hadn t fallen far from the tree. his daughter rachel was in the middle of an affair herself, and it was putting her marriage at risk. you know todd had been calling me, you know, what am
bed. uh-huh. and got into this struggle over the scissors. i took some cuts just on my hands trying to get them away from her. they wrestled on the bedroom floor, he said. just a couple of feet from the crib where 7-month old alex was sleeping. and, overweight and out-of-shape, said todd, he was fighting for his life with his much fitter wife. it was a long, long, long protracted struggle. uh-huh. i don t know how long, but it was a long time. she s a very strong girl. uh-huh. she s an extremely strong girl. and she had me on the bottom. and she was on top of me. like, back and forth between bottom and top in this struggle over the scissors. then he said he finally overpowered her, got control of those scissors. i was able to get them turned around onto her. uh-huh.
and, she said, no, you know, i m looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you. her boyfriend is a big gun collector. as todd told it, when rachel said that when she threatened to send james white to get rid of him, whatever that meant, he overreacted and punched rachel. where did you hit her? i hit her right by the face. after she had told you basically she was going to have this, her boyfriend take care of you. yeah, yeah. todd said he tried to apologize. and i m rubbing back saying, i m sorry, you know, i m just so sorry, there s not i m sorry. but then he said rachel turned around and attacked him with a deadly weapon. she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. uh-huh. and i got a hold of them. and we had a struggle on the bed and rolled off onto the
and give her some jabs. she was injured at this point, but probably not seriously. uh-huh. i poked her in the eye really hard and got her to break free. he retreated, he said, as quick as he could. and i got up and got out of there and then ran to my car. got to my car and thought, get out of here. i thought, oh, my god. i didn t realize. get the children, get the children out here. his two daughters were in their room, but baby alex was with the wounded rachel. standing there in the garage, he said, he made a decision. he had to protect his children. he would go back in and rescue them from rachel. i grabbed my motorcycle jacket at that point. put it on, zipped it up. it s got pads over here for, like, breaking down the door. uh-huh. and i rushed into the room.
her boyfriend is a big gun collector. reporter: as todd told it, when rachel said that when she threatened to send james white to get rid of him, whatever that meant, he overreacted and punched rachel. where did you hit her? i hit her right by the face. after she had told you basically she was going to have this, her boyfriend take care of you. yeah, yeah. reporter: todd said he tried to apologize. and i m rubbing back saying, i m sorry, you know, i m just so sorry, there s not i m sorry. reporter: but then, he said, rachel turned around and attacked him with a deadly weapon. reporter: she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. uh-huh. and i got a hold of them. and we had a struggle on the bed and rolled off onto the bed. uh-huh. and got into this struggle over the scissors. i took some cuts just on my hands trying to get them away