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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.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.

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.

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."

Susan Mailer, in her 2019 memoir, said that in her book, In Another Place: with and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, in the chapter called "Silent Spaces", says she "had no choice but to face with considerable angst what this painful episode meant to me and my family."[16]

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• Flatley, Joseph L. (May 15, 2022). "Norman Mailer and The Finders". Failed State Update. Retrieved 2022-08-25.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• "The point of no return came when Norman Mailer stabbed her for saying he wasn't as good as Dostoyevsky". The New York Times. November 15, 2015. Retrieved 2022-08-25.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

• Legs, Mcneil (2020). "INTERVIEW: NORMAN MAILER". 14 (1): 36, 26p. Retrieved 2022-09-14.

• Lennon, Michael (2022-09-14). "Interview with Susan Mailer, Author of In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer". 13 (1): 109, 7p. Retrieved 2022-09-14.