Judge berates ‘callous’ wife for YouTube stunt in divorce battle

A BRITISH woman who tried to humiliate her husband with internet videos during their high-profile divorce hit back yesterday after being branded by a New York judge as a “callous” star of a melodrama.

Playwright and former actress Tricia Walsh-Smith, who was married to the head of a huge Broadway theatre operator, put videos of herself on YouTube to spill the secrets of their marriage in an apparent effort to gain an advantage in their divorce battle.

But Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Harold Beeler granted Philip Smith a divorce on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment — and heavily criticised Walsh-Smith’s video stunt in a nine-page ruling yesterday.