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Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt
As we go almost a week into As the Gav Turns, a few more stories are leaking out about what's been going on with the Mayor lately. But first, some news, mainly that he is most definitely not going to resign. In fact, he and Jake McG, who earlier called on Gavin to resign, had a meeting yesterday about that very subject that didn't go very well. Gavin played the "why is everybody always picking on me" card to which Jake responded, "bitch, please." Earlier, Jake had called on Gavin to resign, saying that Gavin did not have the "moral fiber" to be Mayor and we seem to recall that not being on the city charter. And if Gavin doesn't have moral turpitude than what could one say about Willie? The other news is that there's been issues as to who exactly is paying Alex Tourk's compensation and Gavin's people are trying to figure out a legal way around paying Alex Tourk as people have brought up the legal issues with how it was initially set up.
Now, onto the juicy stuff…
Apparently, a bunch of people have been telling Gavin to lay off the booze for awhile but Gavin wouldn't hear of it. Then, sometime after his fun little press conference, Gavin started to think "hey, maybe I do have a problem" and reached out to John Burton. Burton had some problems himself back in the day and went through counseling and so Burton met up with Gavin at Delancey Street and told him to get some help. After wards, Gavin called Mimi Silbert, director of Delancey Street to get the ball rolling. That night, Gavin spilled the beans to his family what he was up to and told his staff on Monday.
Matier & Ross actually have a pretty sad little story to tell about the Mayor. The tale goes that sometime after Kimberly first started commuting to New York, Gavin started going to bars himself (mainly Balboa Cafe or La Barca) and sit there by himself, drinking a glass of wine. If he had stuff to do, he'd go straight home but if it were an early evening, he'd just go to the bar and sit there by himself, drinking white wine. Throw in all the social occasions and parties you're supposed to attend as Mayor and you have someone with all the opportunity in the world to drown your sorrows in a bottle.
And yeah, the story sounds kind of sad and plays into earlier perceptions that Gavin wasn't really happy being Mayor, fueled in no certain part by his hemming and hawing over running for reelection. One could even psychoanalyze and say that all of this is classic self-destruction, but we hate when the press psychoanalyzes people so we won't do it here even if it is totally, totally fun (ask us sometime about our theory that it's all due to heartbreak over Kimberly and his lack of being able to properly mourn for the end of his relationship because of his job and that all he wanted to do was go into his room and play "Losing My Religion" over and over again like Brenda did when Dylan dumped her for Kelly and...oh, shoot, we started....). As Bevan Dufty told the LA Times: "He has been profoundly unhappy in personal life and in aspects of his job, and that has shown."