sentences:  They eventually broke up when Walter decided to accept a new job in Maryland; the split was amicable as they both admitted they had been drifting apart for a long time.Claire Meade, played by Judith Light, is a recovering alcoholic, she was upset over Bradford's numerous infidelities, especially over his twenty-year-long affair with former "Mode" editor Fey Sommers.She had admitted to Betty that she killed Fey and attempted to leave the country in order to evade murder charges, but then turned herself in.