Long time lurker of these threads (admittedly hard to keep up at the speed of them recently
). One thing I just can’t understand is the interview; what was the end game here? Surely they can’t have thought that the allegations and statements they made couldn’t be relatively easy to fact check.
Genuinely, what did they expect this interview to do?
One scenario I keep thinking of is Oprah may have helped when they first left to find ‘freedom’ (financially or by providing contacts/housing) and the interview was Oprah collecting her dues. Either way it was pretty shoddy interviewing technique on Os part (no follow up Qs, leading Qs and not exploring a balanced view) it’s not something that would fly if the interview conducted by a British reporter.