Celebri-Scoop

Reunited 'Cos I Feel So Bad

Is it guilt or residual love that brings people back together in times of tragedy?

-Judy McGuire

Last week's big celebrity tragedy story (besides the dreary Emmy Awards) was the fatal plane crash that killed four people and critically injured DJ AM (Adam Goldstein) and drummer Travis Barker.

Both survivors were single at the time of the crash, yet within hours, Barker's ex-wife, Shanna Moakler and Goldstein's actress ex-girlfriend, Mandy Moore, jetted down south to comfort their respective exes.

It brought me back to when I found out my most long-term boyfriend had been diagnosed with cancer. He'd dumped me the year before and I'm not generally the kind of woman who stays friends with her exes, but hearing that someone I'd spent six years of my life with had brain cancer, made me wonder if I should reverse that position. I certainly wasn't over our breakup, but I knew that a) he was probably going to die; and b) though I wasn't ready to forgive him, perhaps I should just fake it a little to make things easier on him. Read more on Mandy Moore and comforting exes...