it looks like to me that she was having trouble reading the tele prompter. I was expecting an Anna Nicole moment by the way you and TMZ had described it.

painful to watch, clearly had too much to drink. At least they helped her off the stage before she embarrassed herself anymore.

Wow. What a disappointment. I’ve always been such a fan and am shocked because she exudes so much class on screen. She was struggling to read the teleprompter. I even saw her squint a few times. She clearly was tipsy and if she has a drinking/drug problem, I sincerely hope she gets the help she needs. Only a drunk female would go on camera with her hair looking like that! She still a great actress and still looks great for her age though. No one can deny that.

Poor thing?! I’m sorry but I don’t agree with this. As a child of an alcoholic its the people around them you should feel sorry for. The alcoholic doesn’t always suffer — its the people who love them that do.

I agree, I have always loved Kim Delaney since her All My Children day, but this was sad….I don’t think anyone should be judging her though, you never know the real story

her hair was a bit disheveled, but whether alcohol or drugs influenced her performance, I doubt. this is clearly a combination of poor eyesight, no preparation or rehearsal, and being uncomfortable with the speech. at the beginning, she says to someone, “that’s my job…” which I took as her saying, “but that’s not my life, but the character I play on tv.” we saw her first read-through of the speech, and we witnessed that she didn’t prep at all.

After this performance she might not be on army wives anymore, wait is that show still on? I don’t know i don’t follow crappy shows.

Watch it again then. There were several times where it looked like she was going to start laughing. She actually did have a small grin on her face at least 3 separate times. Very obvious.

the alcoholic always suffers, do you think its easy to have alcoholism? it isn’t . they dont want to lose the people around them and destroy their lives but they have a disease. I hope she finds AA, NA or CA if she is an addict and that her family decides to go to Al-Anon.

Good gawd, what a train wreck!!!!

Clarissa – I never said mine was the only side. It’s not. But MY side – and others – ARE the other side of the story. My view on alcoholism IS black and white when it comes to drunk driving or if the alcohol causes violence. My mother stated that my father was a good man — except for when he drank. When he drank he constantly beat my mother and my siblings. I have two sisters who are addicts. One niece shares the same trait as her grandfather and, when drinking, becomes violent — to the point of stabbing her brother. She has lost custody of all her children and sits in a jail cell now.

I’m glad you made the decision to get help. For you and your family. Yes, there are two sides to every story. You gave me yours and now you have mine.

WOW!… I must say now that I think back,I did make a choice. The CHOICE was to get sober and beg for help. Help, from strangers, people I had never met. The people around me could not accept that i had a problem and that was why I was living like an animal. I guess you are right, I always wanted to grow up and make a fool out of myself, divorce,lose kids,homes,friends,jobs,MY HEALTH. AHH, yes i wanted to have an arrest record and walk around feelling all the shame for things i could not remember anb of course it was always my goal to hurt the ones I loved. I pray for tolerance and understanding.

oh and Kim Delaney? looks like a mixture of both going on there. I wish I could drink like that and still be skinny and hot!

Whatever the truth may be you do not under ANY circumstances show up BOMBED on stage at a serious event and disgrace the USA and lastly yourself, I say lastly because she does not care what others think of how she appears on national television. That happens when your a drunk, you think you look normal, I know I am sober for years now from a family of drunks and druggies, “call me an expert” So much of hollywood is bombed, can’t they just stay clean for the Social events? showing off all there millions, makes me sick!

I just got finished saying the same thing, they knew enough to pull her off stage only after the fact everyone saw her drunk, she had to be that way before they sent her out, people do hair & makeup, someone had to notice, maybe they all thought it was quite funny, haha I am laughing, having the desease of alcoholism is oh soooo funny for the victim & all the loved ones affected, keep laughing it will happen to you someday, My son died trying something he thought was funny, just one time hahaha

skinny and hot? you probably think all females that are too skinny ( to me she is) are hot, just because they are skinny. Probably not very healthy either, well, then again, that’s obvious here.

this entire speech was in bad taste. there is no way anyone who helped coordinated this event planned that speech. it’s obvious that those were her own words. I’ve never liked her show, and after seeing this, I don’t care a bit for her either. that event was to celebrate the military career of someone who held the second highest rank in our nations military, someone who has had to help make the hardest decisions our nation has faced in my lifetime, and she spent her time talking about her fake ‘experiences’. to stand there and act like you know what our soldiers and their families go through because you memorize a script is absolutely classless. she has no clue what real army wives go through. imagine that your husband was a deployed navy seal a couple months ago. imagine you haven’t heard from him in weeks, and then all the sudden you see all that media coverage about the helicopter that was shot down, killing seals. close your eyes and imagine that panic and horror and sheer heartache. now open them and realize that unless you’ve been there, what you just imagined isn’t half what real military spouses and children risk facing everyday. thank god she was grown off the stage. she proved herself an embarrassment and offended every member of our military with her words.

This is a pledge to try my best to understand and accept the differences of others and to exercise less judgement to practice kindness and to consider the impact of my words and actions.