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Broken romance may be fueling rep’s rough Patches (Kennedy)
Boston Herald ^ | 05/09/06 | Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa

Patrick Kennedy is carrying a torch for a now-married ex-galpal and his broken heart may be the reason he’s gone off the rails, friends say.

“He’s lonely,” said one of Patches’ Rhode Island pals. “He’s a mess, and it’s really sad. It really is.”

Word is that Patches pines for his ex, Tatiana Platt, an America Online exec he dated for more than a year until she left him for her now-hubby, renowned architect Campion Platt.

We hear that Tatiana has been defending her former paramour, saying the Rhode Island congressman has gotten a “bad rap” after a suspicious car accident last week. Kennedy plowed his Ford Mustang into a Capitol Hill security barrier at 2:45 a.m. Thursday. He subsequently checked himself into the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for rehab.

Kennedy said he is battling an addiction to prescription drugs. But a waitress at a Capitol Hill bar said he was drinking before the accident.

Capitol Police officers, who suspected that Kennedy, 38, was drunk, claim he was given special treatment. A superior told them to skip the field sobriety test and Kennedy was then driven home. Patches claims he has no memory of the incident, blaming a combination of the sleeping pill Ambien and the gastrointestinal drug Phenergan.

“He’s all screwed up,” said the Rhode Island pal. “He really needs to get away from everything for about six months and deal with this.”

Word is, Patrick’s family was extremely fond of Tatiana and hoped that he would marry her. A brainy ex-CIA spook who speaks six languages, Tatiana was thought by the Kennedys to bea good influence on Patrick.

The romance began in the spring of 2003 when Tatiana turned up on Patrick’s arm at the opening of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

He then brought her to a fund-raiser at cousin Anthony Shriver’s Miami digs to meet the rels and they hit it off so famously that Tatiana chaired a Best Buddies benefit at Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s house in Maryland.

But she reportedly fell for her husband, a dashing ex-male model, while she was dating Kennedy - a blow the congressman apparently never recovered from.

Friends say Kennedy’s mother’s battle with alcoholism is also taking a toll and that he is “genuinely concerned” for her well-being. He also reportedly is not close to his brother, Ted Jr., or sister Kara although the three took temporary guardianship of Joan Kennedy after she was found sprawled on a Boston sidewalk in the rain, and was hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder.

“He’s really not a bad guy,” said our spy. “In fact, he’s a really sweet guy. He just feels like he’s all alone. It’s too bad.”