The Tragedy Of Rachael Ray Is So Sad

While she’s known as being a bubbly on-camera personality and cook, Rachael Ray has been called a homewrecker, a crack peddler, and so much more. Life behind the lights and cameras has often been tragic for the TV chef.

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A horrible case of croup | 0:00
Mugged twice | 1:29
Peddling crack to kids | 2:10
Becky with the good hair | 3:19
Infidelity rumors | 4:34
Family feud | 5:44
Public blame | 6:49
Guilty and grateful | 8:11‌

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While she’s known as being a bubbly 
on-camera personality and cook,  
Rachael Ray has been called a 
homewrecker, a crack peddler,  
and so much more. Life behind the lights and 
cameras has often been tragic for the TV chef.
"Welcome and sit and relax. I love 
firsts and this is the first show!"
Rachael Ray is known for many things — high levels 
of energy, widespread knowledge of cooking despite  
never having attended culinary school, and 
tons of drive — but one of her most defining  
characteristics is her gravelly voice. Whether you 
watched her long-running syndicated show or not,  
chances are that if you are familiar with Ray, 
you are also familiar with her signature rasp.
While Ray has sounded this way for 
as long as she has been famous,  
cigarettes or any other voice-altering 
substance are not to blame. In fact,  
Ray has struggled with her voice for her 
entire life, and it was especially bad  
pre-puberty. Ray’s voice box has continuously 
been a problem for her, as she caught croup,  
an infection that affects the airway, when she 
was growing up. Ray told People magazine in 2006,
"I had a lot of croup as a kid so I don’t have 
the strongest vocal cords to begin with. I went  
to a voice doctor [who] taught me exercises for my 
throat and to cut back a little on the caffeine."
In 2008, Ray also had to go in for surgery 
to remove a cyst on one of her vocal cords,  
but she was back to her bubbly, gravelly-voiced 
self after a week of strict vocal rest.
Ray moved to New York City in 1995, only one 
year after new crime-fighting tactics were  
introduced. Within two years, she became 
the victim of a violent mugging in the  
lobby of her own Queens apartment 
building. She recounted to People,
"This kid comes in behind me — next thing I 
know he shoves my face up against the door,  
jams a gun into my back and says, ‘Give me 
your bag.’ I flipped the top off the mace my  
dad had given me when I moved to New York 
City, spun around and started screaming."
The robber was deterred, only to return the 
following week to beat Ray up in an alley.  
These incidents prompted her to flee 
the city for upstate New York, saying,
"Dude, I got mugged twice within one 
week! Wouldn’t you want to leave?"
"She’s like the most peaceful 
person you could meet."
The vast majority of the hate Rachael Ray has 
received has come from the tabloid media or  
the public. Rarely has she faced 
criticism from one of her peers,  
so it was a huge shocker when she was called out 
by another big name in culinary broadcasting back  
in 2009. It all began when Ray signed on 
to appear in advertisements for Dunkin’,  
which seemed like a great idea since Ray 
built her brand on fast and easy meals.
The partnership may have fit Ray’s brand, 
but even she admitted to ABC News that it  
turned into a PR fiasco after Anthony 
Bourdain called her "evil" and said she  
was basically "peddling crack to kids." The 
late chef was by no means the only one to  
bash Ray’s choice — some other critics were 
outraged because they thought her scarf was a  
symbol for Islamic extremism — but Ray appeared 
undaunted by the backlash. She told ABC News,
"They came to me and they said, ‘We want 
to make healthier food for America. You  
drink a lot of coffee. You 
grew up on Dunkin’ Donuts.’"
She also noted that Dunkin’ provided 
support for her charity, Yum-o, adding,
"They’ve been very supportive of me. I 
don’t regret a thing. Not for a minute."
Rachael Ray has had some legitimate 
criticism thrown her way, but she has  
also had a few instances of unnecessary 
hate. There was one particular rumor that  
was so ludicrous that it was almost humorous 
— except the hate tossed Ray’s way was real,  
and no one could blame her 
for being upset about it.
We are, of course, talking about 
how Ray was reeled into the Jay-Z  
and Beyoncé cheating scandal due to 
people on the Internet’s collective  
stupidity. Her name is what got her 
into trouble since it is strikingly  
similar to that of another Rachael, who 
was accused of being Jay-Z’s mistress.
The other Rachael was designer Rachel Roy. Much 
of people’s belief that Roy was involved with  
Jay-Z stems from an Instagram post she made 
about "good hair," which was interpreted as  
a reference to Beyoncé’s famous "Becky with the 
good hair" lyric. The Bey-hive went in on Roy,  
but some of Bey’s less astute fans saw 
"Rachel Roy" and immediately thought of Ray,  
despite the former being a fashion designer with  
no television connections. Ray then became 
the target of rage, receiving tweets such as,
"Never watching ur show again 
Rachel u r a homewrecker."
"What a difference a vowel makes."
"Yeah." 
"What a difference a vowel makes."
Rachael Ray married John Cusimano — a 
musician, actor, and lawyer — in 2005,  
and fans are quite familiar with him by 
way of his frequent appearances on Ray’s  
daytime show. Unfortunately, while the host 
has never been accused of cheating herself,  
she has for years had to deal with reports of her 
husband’s indiscretions. Plus, she has faced a lot  
of judgment from the public for her husband’s 
actions, which have not even been proven true.
Despite the unverified nature of the rumors, 
Ray and Cusimano have continually had to defend  
their relationship. In a 2007 interview with 
People, Ray confirmed she had heard about six  
women her husband allegedly cheated with but 
made it clear she was no duped spouse, saying,
"I’ve known where he is every 
night since we’ve been married."
"And we have talked every 
day since the night we met."
The couple also felt pushed to put 
out an official denial in 2013 after  
tabloids alleged that Cusimano 
was a regular at a New York City  
swingers club called Checkers, 
with their publicist sharing,
"This is yet another pack of 
lies printed by the National  
Enquirer who have been targeting John and 
Rachael for several years with no merit."
Many people can identify with not seeing 
eye-to-eye with a relative or even cutting  
them out of the picture when the relationship 
becomes too toxic. In the case of Rachael Ray,  
it was a more distant relative who decided to call 
her out in the media; her cousin, who was incensed  
over the death of her mother and armed with the 
belief that Ray is to blame. The unfortunate death  
of Ray’s aunt turned into a full-on war after 
the TV personality and her husband skipped out  
on the funeral, and the tabloids jumped on 
the chance to paint Ray in a negative light.
Ray’s aunt, Geraldine, died after accidentally 
locking herself outside in freezing weather. This  
occurred in November 2013 when she was house 
sitting for her sister, Ray’s mother, Elsa,  
in chilly upstate New York. In an interview with 
the National Enquirer, Ray’s cousin, Gina, said,
"My mother is dead today because 
the Ray family neglected her."
When it came time for the funeral, Ray and her 
husband were not in attendance due to work,  
with Gina blasting the couple, saying,
"It’s inexcusable. It shows 
a total lack of caring."
"No idea why the dog chews on me. I contain 
nothing that would help them live a happy,  
healthy life like Nutrish Whole 
Health Blend. I’m a stick."
When a celebrity puts their name on something, 
they are often expected to be held accountable  
for that product. When Rachael Ray’s dog 
food, Nutrish, faced a giant lawsuit,  
Ray shouldered nearly all of the public outrage 
rather than simply a portion of it. People seemed  
to either forget or conveniently ignore that she 
was not involved with the day-to-day operations  
or the manufacturing of the product line when 
it was found to have a harmful ingredient.
The pet food line was originally manufactured by 
Ainsworth Pet Nutrition before being purchased  
by the J.M. Smucker Company, who owned it when 
a $5 million class action lawsuit was filed in  
2018. In the lawsuit, a consumer pointed out that 
the so-called "natural" dog food contained the  
herbicide glyphosate, which he alleged was false 
advertising. A judge dismissed the case in 2019  
due to a lack of specificity, but Ray already took 
the brunt of the harsh criticism from the media.
That is to be expected — the canine food is 
officially named Rachael Ray Nutrish — but one  
would expect the actual defendant, Smucker, 
to be namechecked in the headlines too.
"You’re ridiculous, you’re so 
cute. It’s okay Marti. One second,  
honey. If I can do it Marti, you can."
In mid-2020, Rachael Ray lost her Upstate 
New York home to fire, and in 2021,  
extreme flooding took her New York City 
apartment. But Ray lost more than just  
property and material possessions during the 
COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, she also  
had to say goodbye to her beloved dog, Isaboo, 
who died in May 2020. She wrote on Instagram,
"Today @johnmcusimano and I mourn the loss 
of a dog; a pit bull who taught us more about  
unconditional love, empathy, and understanding 
of one another than we could have ever imagined."
Despite her loss, Ray remained able 
to put things into perspective — she  
recognized the gift of time that 
she was able to spend with Isaboo  
due to the world slowing down. She 
explained in an interview with Extra,
"When I lost my dog I was so grateful that I 
could be with her the last several months of  
her life… she died in my arms. I felt guilty and 
grateful at the same time. People suffered actual  
human loss from COVID or because they couldn’t 
get care… and how many people died alone."
A month after Isaboo died, Ray and 
her husband adopted another pup,  
who they named Bella Boo Blue in 
honor of their deceased pit bull.