The happy couple in this picture are Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson and his girlfriend, karate champion Jessica Bratich. Not pictured, is Mitchell’s mother. And evidently, she would like to be in this photo, sandwiched riiiight in the middle of her son and his girlfriend. In an interview with the Herald Sun that she will no doubt come to regret immediately, Vikki Harber says her son has been ‘stolen’ from her by Jessica and slams Cricket Australia for flying over ‘bitchy’ girlfriends more interested in self-promotion than supporting their partners. Yikes…….
The Herald Sun reports…..
On
the eve of the Ashes series in England, Vikki Harber also slammed
Cricket Australia for turning its back on parents in favour of flying
over “bitchy” girlfriends more interested in self-promotion than
supporting their partners.
Ms Harber, 45, told the Herald Sun her once close relationship with her son had deteriorated since he started going out with Ms Bratich. “I get a text on Mother’s Day and a text on my birthday,” she said..
“The last time I actually spoke to him was when the beach cricket
was here (and) Dennis Lillee told him he had to ring his mother, so
Mitchell rang me that day. “It has been like this since Jess came on the scene. “Up until he met Jessica we were very close . . . but he hasn’t spent a night under my roof since he met Jessica.”
Ms Harber said Cricket Australia had never offered her the opportunity to see her son play outside Brisbane.
“For
the wives and the children I think it is great that they support them
and send the over there, but who are these girlfriends? They are just
girlfriends,” Ms Harber said from Coolangatta.
“Mitch met
Jess and since then she has flown off to South Africa, to England and
the Bahamas. She gets all these trips, she gets flown there,
accommodation, food and all of that.” Cricket sources said players decide who to invite on tour.
Johnson’s manager Sam Halvosen said the gun bowler was aware of his mother’s comments but did not want to discuss them.
I bet he didn’t! This story is a cracker because it covers so many things. Namely mother-in-laws and the relationships between mothers and sons. My own mother-in-law has always been respectful and mindful of which lines to cross and has never crossed them. We get along famously. But I’ve dated guys in the past whose mothers are less mothers more….defacto partners. In their own eyes anyway.
It’s quite heart-breaking this story – once you stop laughing or cringing behind your hands. That, and willing the poor Mum to stem her verbal flow of bitter emotion TO A JOURNALIST when it’s clearly not going to improve her relationship with her son or her possible future daughter-in-law.Hard to imagine the wedding speech. “Oh, remember that time when I called Jess a bitch in the newspaper! Hahaha! They were good times, weren’ they?”
Playing Dr Phil for just a moment, I’ve noticed the whole mother-confusing-her-son-with-a-husband syndrome is more prevalent when the mum is single (or in an unhappy relationship). We all like to think that our sons are The Perfect Man – created in our image. And perhaps this is even more true when you’re single…..
Funnily enough, just the other day, Luca, who is 11, asked me when I thought he should leave home. I said “45”. And then I tried not to cry at the thought that one day he will love another woman more than me……
EARLIER….
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I must be bad because I thought it was the best story of the year. I love it! Absolutely hilarious :)
I think that she could have spoken to him personal about this, not a national paper!