Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife Jennifer McCarthy in bizarre arrest Jennifer McCarthy. Picture: Santa Fe County Source: Supplied Author Cormac McCarthy. THE FORMER wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy has been arrested in a bizarre domestic dispute over space aliens that escalated when she pulled a gun out of her vagina. Jennifer McCarthy, 48, was arrested in Santa Fe, New Mexico on suspicion for aggravated assault and released on $5000 bail. A statement of probable cause, obtained by The Smoking Gun , details the argument that broke out on January 4 between McCarthy and her 53-year-old boyfriend, whose name was redacted. They were arguing about space aliens in the morning. McCarthy left the house, then returned and went into her bedroom. She came out of the bedroom wearing lingerie with a silver handgun inserted into her vagina. McCarthy started to have intercourse with the gun and said "Who is crazy, you or me?," then pulled the gun out of her vagina and pointed it at her boyfriend's head, the boyfriend told police. He was scared she would pull the trigger so he took the gun out of her hand and put it in the toilet. McCarthy got the gun out of the toilet and put it in a bin outside. Arresting officer Chris Zook found a silver Smith and Wesson in the rubbish outside. Jennifer McCarthy and Cormac McCarthy, who wrote The Road and No Country For Old Men, divorced in 2006. They have one son together.