She has to find a new set – but all the World Wide Web can still be scorned socialite Tricia Walsh-Smith’s stage.
A Manhattan judge yesterday barred the peeved play wright – who’s made international headlines by venting about her divorce on YouTube – from filming her rants in her Park Avenue apartment, but both he and her husband’s lawyer acknowledged she can say whatever she wants to whomever she wants and broadcast it to the world.
“If there’s a way we thought we could stop [Walsh-Smith], we would do so,” hubby Philip Smith’s lawyer, David Aronson, said in court yesterday.
Walsh-Smith has trashed the Shubert Organization head, who’s 25 years her elder, in two online rants in which she says they never had sex in their nine years of marriage.
“Good afternoon, Tricia,” Smith, 77, told his estranged wife as he walked by her with his cane. She glared at him and said nothing.
Smith is trying to boot the British blonde from the Upper East Side apartment they shared and is suing her for divorce on the grounds that she’s been cruel and inhuman to him.
“The only cruel behavior I’ve ever done to that man was make him have skim milk in his cappuccino,” she said in her latest video, which was posted over the weekend.
“I loved him, and I adored him.”
Walsh-Smith, 52, was accompanied in court by her lawyer and a publicist and declined to answer questions. After the hearing, she made a brief statement to the media, saying she’d been forced to go public because she was in a desperate situation.
“I didn’t want to harm anyone. My financial straits were dire. My husband had stopped paying my credit cards,” she said.
Smith declined comment, as did his lawyer.
In court, Walsh-Smith’s lawyer, David Isaacson, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Harold Beeler that his client was agreeing to her husband’s request not to remove anything from their apartment “but nothing else.”
The judge granted Smith’s request that his wife stop taking film crews into the apartment, after Aronson noted that she gave a tour of the home in her first video two weeks ago.
“She had a film crew in the apartment. She showed family pictures, his daughter,” Aronson complained.
He also noted that Smith owns the apartment and did so before he married the “Bonkers” playwright and that their prenuptial agreement calls for her to clear out 30 days after a split.
Walsh-Smith said she’s been astonished by all the attention she’s received.
“If I had stabbed [my husband] to death, I don’t think it would have got as much press as me going online and saying, ‘My husband never bonks me,’ ” she said.