Well they often say that love is blind, but as for someone getting involved romantically with him then I'd have to posit that Love is both Blind, Deaf, Dumb and absolutely Crazy or simply that the woman was, most sadly and unfortunately DESPERATE.
And from what Liz has told me over the last few months since I was first introduced to her BY herself NOT by him btw, loneliness would have been the causative factor since of her 3 grown and adult children, her only son has turned Muslim and denies the mother and his 2 sisters completely, her eldest daughter lives and works in England with some big Financial Firm/Company, the second daughter has married in to a moneyed family and totally rejects her working class family and its background as well.
As to her ex-husband, an Australian, the father of her 3 adult children, well he divorced her once the children started to leave home and spread their wings and 1 month after the Decree Absolute for their divorce came through, got engaged to yet another S.E. Asian woman only this time she was 20 years old and he was 48 years old and they married 5 months later, he brought her to Australia and 3 months after getting Australian Citizenship she divorced him and took him to the cleaners so to speak.