Rita Hayworth announcing her divorce from the Aly Khan at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1951. I think this image says it all concerning celebrity bust ups. Note the sterile neutral setting, the surround of journalists and photographers, the cornered actress — doing what’s required, but it must have felt like a perp walk…
There you have it, divorce in the public eye is brutal no matter the circumstances.
The same situation (a little less stage managed) a few years earlier on her divorce from Orson Wells:
