Tricia Walsh-Smith: Divorce by YouTube 

YouTube is famous for giving budding filmmakers an outlet for their creativity. Now it's giving angry spouses a new venue for airing their dirty laundry.

Tricia Walsh-Smith took her complaints about her wealthy husband, Philip Smith, to YouTube and found an audience of millions. But has it helped or hurt her cause?

“We’re at a critical moment where people are turning to public broadcasts to express private thoughts,” Dr. Keith Ablow, a forensic psychiatrist, told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Thursday in New York. “But I don’t think it’s connecting people necessarily. I think it’s disconnecting them from their own life stories.”

Some divorce lawyers say that Walsh-Smith is hurting her pending divorce case with the YouTube video, but MSNBC’s senior legal analyst Susan Filan says it likely won't have any effect on the case.

“A judge isn’t really going to care,” Filan told Vieira. “In the end, a divorce, as upsetting and emotional as it is, is just a financial transaction. You’re doing backwards math. You’re trying to make one household go into two. Somebody’s going to have to give something to somebody else.”

Philip Smith is the president of the Shubert Organization, the largest owner of theaters on Broadway and the force behind such hits as “Mama Mia!,” “Gypsy” and “A Chorus Line."

Before they married, Walsh-Smith signed a prenup giving her the couple’s home in Florida and $500,000 a year in the event of a divorce, with the bulk of his estate going to his daughters. Now Walsh-Smith wants to get the agreement she signed thrown out.

New York doesn't have a no-fault divorce law, and marriages can be ended only for cause. In her six-minute YouTube video, Walsh-Smith presents her case, complete with gritty details about the couple’s lack of a sex life — which is grounds for divorce in New York.

What do you think about this? Is YouTube a good way to air your feelings? Do you think it could sway the case one way or the other?