Guess the marriage is still crazy after all these years.
The songbird spouse of singer Paul Simon said Monday that she started a spat at their Connecticut house that got them both arrested for disorderly conduct.
“I got my feelings hurt and I picked a fight with my husband,” Edie Brickell said in a statement. “The police called it disorderly. Thank God it’s orderly now.”
Brickell’s lawyer released the mea culpa to CNN after she and Simon clasped hands and went before a judge to face the music.
Richard Harbus for New York Daily News Paul Simon leaves Norwalk Superior Court after being arraigned for disorderly conduct Monday morning.
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Richard Harbus for New York Daily News Edie Brickell leaves court after being arraigned for disorderly conduct after having a family dispute with husband Paul Simon.
EnlargePaul Simon and Edie Brickell leave court separately after being arraigned on Monday.
Dressed in a navy blue suit and a green fedora that he took off before taking the stand, Simon admitted he and Brickell hit some troubled marital waters, but insisted “both of us are fine together.”
“We’re going to go home and watch our son play baseball,” Simon said in the Norwalk, Conn., courtroom. “We had an argument, which is atypical of us. Neither of us has any fear, or any reason to be threatened.”
Brickell, dressed in ankle boots, skinny brown jeans and towering over her diminutive husband, chimed in, “He’s no threat to me at all.”
Judge William Wenzel cut the couple a break and declined to issue a protective order on the condition that they behave themselves.
Then Simon, 72, and Brickell, 47, left the courtroom hand-in-hand. They are due back in court on May 16.
“Edie and I are fine,” Simon told reporters. “We love each other. We had an argument, that’s all.”
Simon’s lawyer called the Saturday spat “a minor situation” and was the first to suggest Brickell and her meddling mother bore the brunt of the blame.
“It was a normal husband-and-wife discussion,” Allan Cramer said. “Paul didn’t want to discuss it and she did. He tried to leave and she kind of locked the door.”
Alarmed, Brickell’s mom, Mary, called the cops, he said.
Simon and Brickell were “shocked” when they were slapped with a summons, said Cramer.
“I was talking to her and she said, ‘We’d been married for 25 years and we’ve had maybe three or four arguments,’” he said.
The couple’s three kids, who range in age from 16 to 20, were not at the New Canaan home to witness the shoving match. “It was over not much,” Cramer said. “On a scale from one to 10, it was a one.”
Simon and Brickell, whose debut single “What I Am” was a hit in 1988, have been married since 1992.
New Canaan Police Chief Leon Krolikowski said that under Connecticut law, cops were required to make an arrest and that both Simon and Brickell were cooperative.
“Frankly, they’re both victims,” the chief added.
jkemp@nydailynews.com
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