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Mailer was asked if he drank a lot, which he was drunk when he stabbed her. Mailer went to say the only time he ever drank heavily was when a marriage was breaking up.{{sfn|Legs|2020|pg:50}}When asked why Mailer stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, Mailer opts out of talking about it saying that he'd maybe write about it later. He was then asked if he hated women to which he responds that he doesn't hate them, however he did get irritated with them differently than he did with men.{{sfn|Legs|2020|pg:52}} | |||
After the stabbing, Mailer was committed to Bellevue hospital. "I was very upset, because me feeling was I committed a crime." His criminal lawyer had suggested him going into the hospital. "He was thinking like a criminal lawyer" Mailer spoke. They used the mental hospital as a way to save him if his wife did end up dying from the injuries inflicted upon her. Mailer hated this, he felt he would go crazy if he'd be there any longer. {{sfn|Legs|2020|pg:51}} | |||
Susan Mailer, when interviewed, spoke briefly about her father. She said that in her memoir, she wrote the chapter "Silent Spaces" which was about the unavoidable angst that the traumatic event caused for their family. Susan studied in psychoanalysis for many years. When she wrote her memoir, it was her "second analysis." She admits she was afraid of him, but she also understood her fears of him. "He had stabbed his wife, my stepmother, Adele."{{sfn|Lennon|2019|pg:114}} | |||
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