636 Situation Reversal
After the broadcast of "Opra's Talk Show", the illegitimate child incident gradually reached an unprecedented level of attention. Although the 51 million viewers are mainly regular viewers of the show, it is undeniable that the topic of the irritating illegitimate child incident also has a decisive role - otherwise Oprah would not have invited Helen to the show.
However, the day after the show ended, Lance subverted everyone's guess in his first interview with reporters, "Who?"
This became the front page headline of all media the next day, a simple and clear response, "Who?", but expressed all doubts, all speculations, and all counterattacks. Lance not only denied his identity as "father", but also denied everything Helen said, and directly decisively denied the fact that the two people knew each other.
This can definitely be called a storm.
Among people's speculation, it is very normal for Lance to deny that he is the father of the child. For example, Helen had more than one bed/companion during that period, so why should we conclude that Lance was the real father? In other words, people at least think that Lance and Helen really had a past period, and the difference was just the details of "pregnancy". Even if we doubted, people just doubted whether Lance really refused to be responsible, whether Helen was really so innocent, and whether there was a driving force behind the entire incident.
It's like the comments from the Chicago Tribune.
But people never expected that Lance directly refused to admit to knowing Helen. Most news media led by the San Francisco Chronicle first reaction was: Is Lance drunk and sexually affair, and after he woke up, he would not recognize others when he put on his pants?
In this news report, Brian analyzed this possibility in a silly manner. For the playboy, no one in bed after getting drunk seems to be heavy. Perhaps the person around him is still a stranger after waking up the next day, and he doesn't even remember the other person's face - after all, it looks similar under the dim lights of the nightclub, let alone the name. Helen is such a "night/joy/joy" object. But for Helen, this is the most wonderful night in her life, and she never forgets it, and all the details become sweet. Later, after Helen found out that she was pregnant, she came to her door, but Lance didn't know her at all, which caused such a situation.
Brian analyzed it well, and seemed to have taken into account all aspects, including Helen's remarks on the "Oprah talk show", the ins and outs of the entire incident, and even the completely different positions of Lance and Helen.
The rich imagination of the journalist has been carried forward again, vividly and confidently, as if he had experienced everything personally. However, readers ignored the speculative words in the news reports, "It seems, maybe, probably, maybe." After reading the report, they made a judgment directly and believed that this was the fact.
The report of the "San Francisco Chronicle" has emerged in a number of news and attracted a lot of attention. Other media have given similar speculations, but they are not as detailed and comprehensive as Brian, and they are at a disadvantage and are stolen from their attention. Although the media have considered a possibility: What if Lance is telling the truth? But now all media are already in a difficult situation and can only walk down, giving speculations while starting to dig out the truth.
The "San Francisco Chronicle" gave the most reliable guess. What the media needs to do now is to confirm it!
Even Oprah began to mobilize news resources to follow up on this news. Now, this incident has gradually become out of track. If Lance tells the truth, it means that Helen is lying, which means that all media are being fooled, which means that the credibility of the media will be affected. Those news newspapers and media may not matter, but Oprah needs this credibility, which is also an important reason why she won so many audiences' favorites.
As soon as possible, Helen became the target of encirclement.
Faced with the surging news wave, Helen burst into tears. She did not make any comments. She seemed to be heartbroken because of Lance's refusal to admit it. She just left the reporters' encirclement fragile and hastily. Since she was not long before she was about to give birth, the reporters did not dare to act rashly, so she watched Helen return to her temporary residence in Los Angeles, a motel.
Then, Helen's friend stood up and strongly accused the reporters of fence-beating behavior, and sneered at Lance's dare to do things that he dared not take it. She strongly responded to Lance's provocation, "Parental test is paternity test. If only in this way can Helen's innocence be proven, then why not? I hope the noble Mr. Strello will not retreat at that time!"
The reaction of Helen's friend was obviously enough to represent Helen's position and made a head-on counterattack; it complemented Helen's weak shoulders, which almost collapsed, successfully aroused people's sympathy again. Compared with Lance's cold-blooded and ruthless and easy-to-deal, Helen seemed to have no ability to resist, completely opposed the gap between the strong and the weak, pushing almost all female audiences to Helen's side, launching a huge crusade against Lance.
However, the media reporters would not be fooled easily. They objectively reported Helen's reaction and then prepared to come to the door again to seek Lance's response, but they were disappointed. Lance, who entered the editing room and closed the door, completely refused any form of interviews and refused to help Helen further hype the topic.
So, Brian quickly thought of an important interviewee: Jessica Alba.
In Lance's response, Jessica was mentioned in a joke. At that time, all reporters thought that this was Lance's dissatisfaction with Jessica's previous hype of news, but now, Jessica has become the best card in the hands of the reporters. It is not just Brian who has such an idea, but Jessica has once again become the target of siege by reporters.
Jessica, who has been at the forefront of the storm for some time, is already very annoyed by the media pursuit. The uninterrupted monitoring of paparazzi "seven days multiplied by twenty-four hours" has almost disrupted all her private life. Even the trash can was messed up by paparazzi, which made Jessica physically and mentally exhausted.
Now, even the illegitimate child incident that had nothing to do with her came to her, which made Jessica regret it. Lance was like a nightmare for her. The nightmare had already woken up, why did she mention it? Her only idea now is to completely get rid of this nightmare. She no longer wants to have any relationship with Lance, nor does she want to make any comments about Lance. She is Jessica Alba, not "one of Lance's ex-girlfriends."
"I don't know, how could I know! I said, I'm not Lance's girlfriend, nor Lance's ex-girlfriend. We've just dated a few times, that's all!" Jessica suppressed her impatientness, took a deep breath, took another deep breath, and said calmly with all her strength, but even so, her words were still irritable.
"Helen said Lance made breakfast for her." A reporter asked loudly, "Has he made breakfast for you when you dated Lance?"
"No, Lance and I have never spent the night together, let alone breakfast." Jessica's lips showed a sarcastic smile, "For God's sake, are you talking about the arrogant and narcissistic Lance? How could he make breakfast for me?" The fact is that he was not even willing to spend the long night with her in the same space, waiting for dawn.
After saying that, Jessica noticed the sudden realization in the reporter's eyes, but she didn't know what it meant. Taking advantage of the moment when the reporter was stunned, she immediately crawled out of the reporter's group and left quickly, quickly getting rid of these annoying flies.
The reporters still wanted to catch up, but soon stopped because they had already obtained the information they wanted: it seemed that all the evidence was pointing to Helen, who was the one who lied!
At this juncture, "Entertainment Weekly" became a hero. On the cover of the latest issue of the magazine, the photo of Helen's back that "Us Weekly" used by "Us Weekly" became the cover of "Entertainment Weekly", and a huge word is marked below, "Liar!"
In the magazine, "Entertainment Weekly" presents the information collected in recent days one by one. Lance did appear in the coffee house where Helen works, but other waiters in the coffee house confirmed that Lance had never had a conversation with any waiter. To be more precise, Lance left directly after buying coffee; however, Helen has always liked Lance, and in the conversation, Lance seemed to have crazy persistence towards Lance. Later, Helen even tried to break into the crew of "Sin City" and was driven out. Even so, Helen was very excited.
Local staff staying in Austin also confirmed that the house where Lance lived never stayed overnight, and he even refused to enter any outsiders, including cleaning staff. This strange habit was widely circulated among those staff, and many people speculated that Lance had a large amount of poisons/pharmaceuticals in the house, worried that outsiders would break in and lead to the secret being exposed.
On the other hand, Helen's home can find countless briefings, photos, pictures, etc., and even the news about Reims in the newspapers are cut into volumes. Helen's fanaticism towards Reims can be clearly felt, like... flesh and blood.
"Entertainment Weekly" did not jump directly into the conclusion, but made a bold speculation, "Maybe Helen is the liar?" A question sentence created unimaginable waves and directly reversed the entire situation. Not only the illegitimate incident, but even the malicious speculations taken for granted by the media and the audience in the past period of time suddenly became embarrassing. "Opra's talk show" was the best among them. Not long ago, Oprah also stood on the moral high ground and condemned Lance harshly, but now it seems that she has become a joke, a joke that was deceived by a small waiter!
In an instant, all eyes were projecting towards Helen angrily, and countless news media flocked to the motel where Helen was staying, but... the building was empty. (.)
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Chapter completed!