Doug Hutchison Defends Grooming Bait Girl Courtney Stodden Over Internet For 6 Months
October 9, 2012 by Hollywoodite
Doug Hutchison, 52, and his wife, Courtney Stodden, 18, made an entrance on VH1′s Couples Therapy by baiting, trolling, deliberately antagonising and provoking the other members of the house.
Specifically, Hutchison was often the physical aggressor and Stodden the verbal aggressor since it fit their perpetual victim facade; “them against the world like Bonnie and Clyde” as Hutchison attempted to explain to Stodden who didn’t appear to know who that was.
There were a myriad of verbal fights and nearly as many almost fist-fights after which counselors brought the group together to smooth things over. During which, sardonically, Hutchison called himself a “child molester” which he did more often than anyone else in the house.
As promotion for the show, Billy Bush of Access Hollywood interviewed the couple and established it’s a real marriage although it’s based on the exploitation of someone sexually/ emotionally vulnerable who was groomed for sex and marriage under her permissive, amenable parents’ noses without much care. After which they gave permission for the marriage, only one day after the couple met face-to-face, since it was the only way Hutchison could sleep with his bait girl wife and not go to jail as an ephebophile (pretty much the conclusion Bush comes to, too).
Counselor Dr. Jenn Berman: ”This is not a fake relationship. After spending three weeks with them, I think the biggest myth is that this is a publicity stunt, and it is not… A lot of times as a therapist I have to do work with people who have different morals, different values, different religions, all that sort of stuff. This is a couple who is legally married, it is a legitimate marriage and they came to me with conflicts in their marriage that needed to be worked on.”
Billy Bush: ”Doug, why get permission from her parents to marry, why not just wait two years until she’s 18?
Doug: A couple of reasons, life is unpredictable and we need to live every day to the fullest. Courtney and I fell in love and we’re soul mates and we needed to dive. She’s 18 now. What would be the point to have waited until she’s 18?”
Billy Bush: ”The psychological development, the emotional development in people ages 51 and 16 is giantly different.”
Doug Hutchison: ”Our inspiration is people like Jon and Bo Derek. She was 15 and he was in his 40s. They had a 22 year marriage. She held his hand while he was on his death bed. Celine Dion and Rene Angelil, he met her when she was 12, was her manager.”
Billy Bush: ”It wasn’t a relationship at that point.”
Doug: ”Well, it was the beginning of a relationship.”
Courtney Stodden: ”The connection was so organic. When you fall in love with somebody, Billy, you’re love and you feel that.”
Billy: ”But you’re 16 and you’re swaying all over the place. Like I have a 14 year-old daughter who is hormonal and emotional and changes her feelings about friends every 10 seconds.”
Courtney: ”I wasn’t… if you asked Bo Derek she would say the same thing. When you’re an old soul, you’re not going to fall in love with a 14 year-old boy. You meet somebody, you know what you want, and you’re going to get that… I was a Christian girl and I wanted to save myself until I got married. Some people say that I waited a whole 16 years… that meant so much to me… we’re still together. We’ve been married for a year and a half almost.”
Hostess: ”What did you say to your parents?
Courtney: “My mother was monitoring all the conversations. [For six months] We were talking online.”
Billy Bush: ”People are going to call you a pedophile and a pervert for meeting a young girl online. And they’re not far off, you’re meeting a young girl start chatting… you’re an actor. You threw your career away.” – via Celebitchy.