636 Reversal of the situation
After the broadcast of "Oprah's talk show", this illegitimate child incident gradually reached an unprecedented height of attention, although it is said that the 51 million viewers are mainly regular viewers of the program, but it is undeniable that the topic of the illegitimate child incident also plays a decisive role - otherwise Oprah would not have invited Helen to the show. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
However, the day after the show ended, Lance subverted everyone's conjecture in his first interview with reporters, "Who? ”
It made almost all the front-page headlines the next day, with a simple and straightforward response, "Who? But all the doubts, all the speculations, all the counterattacks. Lance not only denied his identity as a "father", but also denied everything Helen said, directly and categorically denying the fact that the two knew each other.
It's definitely a stormy sea.
Amid speculation, Lance denied that he was the father of the child, which is quite normal. For example, Helen had more than one bed/partner during that time, so how can it be concluded that Lance is the real father? In other words, it is at least believed that Lance and Helen really had a time, and the disagreement is only over the details of the "pregnancy". Even if they were skeptical, one would only wonder if Lance really refused to be responsible, if Helen was really that innocent, and if there was a driving force behind the whole affair.
It's like the Chicago Tribune's commentary.
But people never expected that Lance directly refused to admit that he knew Helen. The first reaction of most of the news media, led by the "San Francisco Chronicle", was: Is Lance drunk and promising/sexual, and after sobering up, he doesn't recognize people when he puts on his pants?
In this news report, Brian analyzes this possibility with gusto. For Playboy, it doesn't seem to matter who he gets into when he's drunk, and maybe when he wakes up the next day, the person next to him is still a stranger, and he doesn't even remember the other person's face - after all, they all look the same in the dim light of a nightclub, let alone the name. Helen is such a "one-night/pleasure" object. But for Helen, it was the best night of her life, and all the details turned into sweet bits and pieces. Later, when Helen found out that she was pregnant, she came to the door, but Lance didn't know her at all, so this situation was created.
Brian analyzed it head-to-head and seemed to take all aspects into account, including Helen's remarks on the "Oprah Talk Show", the ins and outs of the whole incident, and even the very different positions of Lance and Helen.
Once again, the rich imagination of the journalist flourished, as if he had experienced it himself. But readers ignore the speculative wording in the news report, "it seems, maybe, probably, maybe", and after reading the report, they directly make a judgment, preconceived belief that this is the truth.
The San Francisco Chronicle's story caught the crowd and attracted a lot of attention, and other media outlets made similar speculations, but it was not as detailed and comprehensive as Brian's. Although the media have considered a possibility: what if Lance is telling the truth? But now all the media have been riding the tiger, so they can only go down hard, giving speculations and starting to dig up the truth.
The "San Francisco Chronicle" gave the most reliable guess, and now what the media needs to do is to confirm it!
Even Oprah began to mobilize news resources to follow up on the news. Now, this incident has gradually gone off the rails, if Lance is telling the truth, it means that Helen is lying, it means that all the media are being played, and it means that the credibility of the media will be affected. The news outlets may not matter, but Oprah needs that credibility, which is a big reason why she has won so much popularity.
As soon as possible, Helen became the target of containment.
Helen burst into tears in the face of the surging news wave, she did not say anything, seemed to be grief-stricken by Lance's refusal to admit it, and only left the circle of reporters fragile and hastily - since she was not long away from giving birth, the reporters did not dare to act rashly, so they watched Helen return to her temporary residence in Los Angeles, a motel.
Subsequently, Helen's friend stood up and strongly criticized the reporters' behavior, and scoffed at Lance's daring behavior, she responded forcefully to Lance's provocation, "A paternity test is a paternity test, if this is the only way to prove Helen's innocence, then why not?" I hope that Venerable Mr. Strello will not flinch when the time comes! ”
The reaction of Helen's friends was obviously enough to represent Helen's position and make a frontal counterattack; The contrast with Helen's weak shoulders, which were almost crumbling after being hit, succeeded in reawakening people's sympathy. Cold-blooded and ruthless against Billance, Helen became more and more incapable of resisting, completely opposing the gap between the strong and the weak, and almost all female viewers were pushed to Helen's side, launching a massive crusade against Lance.
However, the media reporters were not easily fooled, they reported Helen's reaction objectively, and then prepared to come to the door again to seek Lance's response, but they were disappointed. Entering the editing room behind closed doors, Lance completely refused any kind of interview and refused to help Helen further hype the topic up.
As a result, Brian quickly thought of an important interview subject: Jessica Alba.
In Lance's response, Jessica was mentioned jokingly, and all reporters at the time thought it was Lance's dissatisfaction with Jessica's previous hype of the news, but now, Jessica has become the best card in the hands of reporters. Brian wasn't alone, Jessica was once again the target of reporters.
Jessica, who has been on the cusp of the storm recently, has been tired of the media chase, and the paparazzi's "seven days by 24 hours" non-stop monitoring has disrupted almost all of her private life, and even the garbage cans have been turned over by the paparazzi, which makes Jessica physically and mentally exhausted.
Now, even the illegitimate child incident that has nothing to do with her has actually come to the door, which makes Jessica regret not being at the beginning. Lance was like a nightmare to her, and she had already woken up from the nightmare, so why did she mention it? Her only thought now is to get rid of this nightmare completely, she never wants to have anything to do with Lance again, she doesn't want to say anything about Lance, she is Jessica Alba, not "one of Lance's ex-girlfriends".
"I don't know, how could I possibly know! I said it, I'm not Lance's girlfriend or Lance's ex-girlfriend, we've only dated a few times and that's it! Jessica swallowed the impatience in her heart, took a deep breath, took another deep breath, and tried her best to remain calm as she spoke, but even so, the words inevitably became irritable.
Helen said Lance had made her breakfast. A reporter raised his voice and asked, "When you were dating Lance, did he also make breakfast for you?" ”
"No, Lance and I have never spent the night together, let alone breakfast." A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Jessica's mouth, "For God's sake, are you talking about that arrogant and narcissistic Lance?" How could he possibly make breakfast for me? The truth is, he didn't even want to spend long nights in a space with her, waiting for dawn.
After saying that, Jessica noticed the sudden realization in the reporter's eyes, but she didn't know what it meant, and took advantage of the reporter's stunned gap, and immediately got out of the group of reporters, walked away quickly, and quickly got rid of these annoying flies.
The reporters tried to catch up, but soon stopped, because they had already got the information they wanted: it seemed that all the evidence pointed to Helen, who was the one who lied!
At this juncture, "Entertainment Weekly" became a hero, and on the cover of the latest issue of the magazine, the photo of Helen's back used by "America Weekly" became the cover of "Entertainment Weekly", and then a huge word was marked below, "Liar!" ”
In the magazine, "Entertainment Weekly" presented the information collected in the past few days, Lance did appear in the coffee house where Helen worked, but the other waiters in the coffee house confirmed that Lance had never had a conversation with any of the waiters, more precisely, Lance left directly after buying coffee every time; But Helen has always liked Lance, and she didn't leave Lance in the conversation, and seemed to have a crazy attachment to Lance, and later Helen even tried to break into the "Sin City" crew, but was kicked out, even so, Helen was very excited.
Local staff who stayed in Austin also confirmed that Lance never stayed in the house where outsiders stayed overnight, and he even refused to allow anyone to enter, including the cleaning staff. This strange habit was widely circulated among the staff, with many speculating that Lance was hiding a large amount of poison in the house, fearing that outsiders could break into the house and reveal the secret.
On the other hand, Helen's home can find countless Lance briefings, photographs, pictures, etc., and even the newspaper news about Lance has been cut into a book. Helen's fanaticism for Lance can be clearly felt, just like ...... Flesh and bones are average.
"Entertainment Weekly" did not jump directly to the conclusion, but made a bold speculation, "Perhaps, Helen is the liar?" "A question sentence, but it produced unimaginable waves, directly reversing the whole situation, not only the illegitimate child incident, but even the malicious speculation that the media and the audience took for granted in the past period suddenly became embarrassing." Oprah's talk show is the most of them, not long ago Oprah stood on the moral high ground and severely condemned Lance, but now it seems that she has become a joke, a joke of being deceived by a little waiter!
In an instant, all eyes were cast angrily at Helen, and countless news media flocked to the motel where Helen was staying, but ...... Not a soul was there. (To be continued.) )