Cynthia 'Not Out to Mutilate' A-Rod

Cynthia Rodriguez says she’s “not out to mutilate” husband Alex Rodriguez and while she considers her marriage to the New York Yankees star over, she’ll be there for him when he cracks up, she tells Post columnist Cindy Adams. Of reports on her escape to Paris: “I needed to get away. … My husband knew I was going. He encouraged it."

"I did not spend one dollar shopping in Paris. … I spent the most innocent four days with my children's godparents,” the mother of Natasha, 3, and Ella, 11 weeks, added of a reported $100,000 spending spree. “Mine's a close-knit family. Never one divorce on my side. My parents, aunts, uncles are devastated." (More Cynthia Rodriguez stories.)