Un. Believable.
Jun. 22nd, 2004 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amalthyaFrom E!Online
She was booked on Dr. Phil in an effort to clear her name in the 1982 murder of her then husband's former wife. Although she had reached a plea deal with prosecutors in 1992, she always maintained her innocence in the killing. So she enlisted the help of Dr. Phil, whose show paid for new DNA testing and planned to present the results over the course of a special two-part episode.
But just prior to her first scheduled appearance on the show, Bembenek says she was shuttled to a gated apartment complex and guarded by a Dr. Phil staffer. She claims her environs reminder her so much of her time in the big house, that she suffered a panic attack and needed to get out of the room.
So she tied sheets together and tried, unsuccessfully, to shimmy out a window. Her makeshift rope broke, and she went careening to the ground, breaking several bones. Doctors had to amputate her right leg due to her injuries.
Bembenek blamed the show for her tumble, and slapped Dr. Phil producers and staffers, as well as the show's studio, Paramount Pictures, with a lawsuit claiming false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
I'm not sure which is worse -- that Dr. Phil was actually trying to help this nut or that the third paragraph made me giggle uncontrollably.
She was booked on Dr. Phil in an effort to clear her name in the 1982 murder of her then husband's former wife. Although she had reached a plea deal with prosecutors in 1992, she always maintained her innocence in the killing. So she enlisted the help of Dr. Phil, whose show paid for new DNA testing and planned to present the results over the course of a special two-part episode.
But just prior to her first scheduled appearance on the show, Bembenek says she was shuttled to a gated apartment complex and guarded by a Dr. Phil staffer. She claims her environs reminder her so much of her time in the big house, that she suffered a panic attack and needed to get out of the room.
So she tied sheets together and tried, unsuccessfully, to shimmy out a window. Her makeshift rope broke, and she went careening to the ground, breaking several bones. Doctors had to amputate her right leg due to her injuries.
Bembenek blamed the show for her tumble, and slapped Dr. Phil producers and staffers, as well as the show's studio, Paramount Pictures, with a lawsuit claiming false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
I'm not sure which is worse -- that Dr. Phil was actually trying to help this nut or that the third paragraph made me giggle uncontrollably.
