Anna Marie Tendler, John Mulaney’s Former Wife, Unveils Revealing Memoir
“She never let me out of her sight,” Anna wrote in an essay for Elle published in June. “She watched me intently as if I was the thing she now needed to guard, though, where guarding once incited her primal rage, she would now guard me with the deepest kind of love I had ever known.”
Calling the dog a “constant through marriage, four moves, graduate school, a career change (or two), a mental health crisis, a divorce, and finally a reinvention,” Anna added that she spent Petunia’s final moments telling her “how grateful I was for her love and companionship.”
“I promised her that I was okay and that I would be okay without her; crushed, lonely, but okay,” she wrote. “I thanked her for staying with me—for guarding me—until I was strong enough to survive without her.”