Mr. & Mrs. Smith's Divorce Goes to 'YouTube'

April 21, 2008 — -- When British playwright-actress Tricia Walsh-Smith posted a high-quality video online describing her failed marriage's most intimate details last week, the clip attracted three million viewers and ignited an online debate questioning whether her "YouTube" divorce was trashy or tactful.

Walsh-Smith said when she uploaded the video detailing her problems with Broadway heavyweight husband Philip Smith to the video-sharing site, she did it to ensure her well-being.

"I did it for survival," she said on "Good Morning America" today. "I wanted attention to my plight. Basically, for me it was a life-or-death situation."

In the video, Walsh-Smith gives a tour of the couple's shared Park Avenue apartment, from which Smith is trying to evict her, according to her claims.

"I still basically don't understand what is going on, but I was being evicted and my husband was evicting me with $5,000," Walsh-Smith said. "He had stopped paying my credit cards and I had to pay lawyers. So basically, he was throwing me out with $80,000 of debt. This is after nine years of marriage and I've done nothing to him. He's never had a dialogue with me. He's never said, 'Tricia, this isn't working. Can I have a divorce?' [Gossip columnist] Cindy Adams told me."

Walsh-Smith's tape also included personal information about the couple's sex life.

"I don't know if you know," Walsh-Smith, 49, told her husband's assistant on speaker phone during a call to his office. "Philip and I never have sex."

She goes on to ask the assistant to relay a message to her estranged husband on what to do with all his condoms she found.

Philip Smith's attorney, David Aronson, told ABC News his 74-year-old client is "hurt and disappointed that Mrs. Smith has done this, but he is a private person who does not believe it would be in anyone's interest to respond to what she has done in a public forum."

Philip Smith is president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theater owner on Broadway.

The public breakup comes at the conclusion of the pair's nine-year marriage, in which Walsh-Smith said she was devoted to her husband entirely.