In effect he perpetuates, to an audience of
>> millions, the view that people who say they have Mental Health problems are liars or
>> are milking it for sympathy or other gain.
It makes makes him a massive pair of buttocks unless he's her doctor and even then he should keep his trap shut.
A person who lies about his or her mental health problems is at least half way to having a mental health problem in my book.
Ignoring this showbiz event is fine, calling her a liar for reasons of entertainment is not.
We are hearing one side of a family misfortune. A rather unusual family that we pay to keep, which makes it of some legitimatepublic interest, but I think they still have a right to some respect for their feelings and privacy which they do not lose all claim to simply because they have themselves chosen to make public statements.
I think they have made a mistake, and the scorn they are getting was predictable, but that doesn't make it right.
He might actually find himself sued for slander/libel which would give our new word epicaricacy another outing.
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