CHARLOTTE – Ten days after news broke of her extramarital affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell has yet to speak on the issue.
The Broadwell family returned to their Charlotte home Sunday afternoon after laying low in Washington D.C.
Broadwell stepped out in front of a sea of reporters Monday. The first outing was with her husband Scott and two children. The second spotting she was on her own and led to a run in with one photographer who walked away with a bloodied forehead.
Broadwell sped off.
"The camera hit me in all the chaos,” said Nell Redmond, freelancing for the Associated Press. “The door opened, the camera got hit, then my head got hit.”
Redmond said she's ok and doesn't think Broadwell intentionally hit her.
Altercation or not, crisis management specialist Monica Wood says Broadwell needs to get out in front of this story.
She said while plenty of friends and neighbors have spoken on her behalf, it's time the public sees the confident figure portrayed in the interviews she conducted while promoting her book about Petraeus.
"She's been so forthcoming when it was time to promote her book, to talk about her accomplishments and all of that, it's time to hear from her from a place of humility, from a place of remorse,” said Wood. “Not necessarily to explain herself but just to speak from her side, her point of view.”
On Sunday night, the family said they planned on making some kind of statement "soon" but did not go into more specifics.
Calls to Broadwell's lawyer and public relations team, both in the D.C. area, have not been returned.
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