Mark Pitta self-destructive behavior while under stress had cost him his job at KTVU (a Fox affiliate) in San Francisco. In 2001 the SF Gate reported:
Mark Pitta, co-host since March 1999 of KTVU’s popular “Mornings on 2,” left for what station spokesman Kenny Wardell called “an instant vacation” on Tuesday morning just after arriving on the set. KTVU attempts to reach him have been unsuccessful so far, and he has not reported back to work.
I think it’s hilarious that you want me to have a surgeon cut my balls instead of using a condom. -Mark Pitta
In my previous post I shared a belligerent letter from Mark stating that I was to leave the house or before he returned. Near the end of the letter he makes it clear that he will not have a vasectomy or in his words “…cut into his balls.”. This is just one example of Mark Pitta violent towards me.
On February of 2013, Mark Pitta and I attended his nephew’s wedding. The morning of the wedding I woke up to a terrible burning feeling in the back of my throat. I knew I was coming down with something but I didn’t dare tell Mark. If I did he’d accuse me of making it up in order not to attend the wedding. I had learned that Mark Pitta neglects everyone but himself.
Even today, it’s embarrassing for me to admit that I spent the rest of my marriage walking on eggshells. I can count on one hand how many arguments Mark and I had where I knew what we were arguing about. Mark’s anger made him confrontational and I’m not one to fight.
What would you do if your spouse left without saying a word and went missing for a week? Maybe you know but when Mark Pitta disappeared in September of 2011, I had nothing but questions. We’d been married for less than a year so how could he possibly abandon me like this?