March 28, 2009
(3-28) Updated list of octuplet posts
Gloria Allred's appearance on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT March 26th to rebut Nadya's radaronline video. AJ Hammer is the host. Transcript provided by CNN. Specific points:
- Angels in Waiting unprofessional and unethical
- How much time Nadya spent with the babies - only 8 out of 108 hrs.
- Nannies with a cough and positive skin test (ppd) for tuberculosis
- Security vs jacuzzi
HAMMER: In a brand-new video just out today, octomom Nadya Suleman is firing back at the nursing group she kicked out of her house for making some shocking allegations against her. And we have the nurses` attorney, Gloria Allred, all ready to answer the octomom point by outrageous point. And among the shocking allegations, nurses from Angels in Waiting are claiming octomom neglected her babies. According to them, mommy just wasn`t around that much. They also claim that octomom may have exposed her kids to tuberculosis and one of the nannies octomom hired even had a terrible cough.
Now the octomom showdown, claim by claim, with the attorney for Angels in Waiting, Gloria Allred, who is with us tonight from Hollywood. Always good to see you, Gloria. Let`s get right to it and let`s begin with octomom Nadya Suleman`s explosive charge. We`re calling this claim number one, that the nurses from Angels in Waiting were unprofessional. In her new diary which is posted RadarOnline.com today, Suleman even mentions your name, Gloria. Let`s watch this.
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SULEMAN: To Gloria, that I personally believe if she really knew the - or really experienced what I experienced and she knew how unprofessional and unethical those nurses were and are, she would never have chosen to support them.
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HAMMER: All right. Gloria, she says that you wouldn`t have done this at all. What do you have to say to that?
GLORIA ALLRED, ATTORNEY: Well, I think I know the Angels in Waiting nurses and nanny and educational consultant a lot better than Nadya does. And I have observed them. I have been very involved with their work while they were in her home. I`ve spoken to them many times on a daily basis and to help them get support and resolve some of the issues that were there because her attorney, Nadya`s attorney, would not allow me to speak directly to Nadya. And her attorney also would not allow for a meeting, which I asked for about five or six days running either in person or on the phone with Nadya and the nurses to work these things out.
They are of the highest quality, the Angels in Waiting nurses. They are extremely professional. And I`m sorry that Nadya has taken this tactic of trying to attack them. She, of course, doesn't give her basis for saying that.
Also in this "Radar Online" interview today done by her, A.J., the reporter or whoever was posing the questions to her, misstated much of what we said at the news conference we held yesterday and that we put out in a written press release. So she was actually being fed, you know, a number of questions that - involving statements we never said.
HAMMER: Some factual inaccuracies there.
ALLRED: Yes.
HAMMER: I`ll let you address a couple of them if they`re a part of our list here. Among the claims in the new video diary posted on "Radar Online," Nadya shoots down claim number two made by the nurses that she didn`t spend time with her babies as much as she should have. Let`s watch that.
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SULEMAN: Honestly, that`s a joke. All of that is beyond catastrophied(ph). I was in there as much as I could until I felt completely rejected by them and almost I felt so like a stranger in my own home. And they were constantly interrogating me and waiting, just waiting. The angels waiting for me to make a mistake, right. Well, they were in there maybe less than half of what they claimed.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HAMMER: All right. She refutes it, Gloria. Have at it.
ALLRED: Well, you know, they were keeping the documentation. I don`t think Nadya was. Because they are registered nurses. They have charts. They have written down who fed the babies and when mom came in, you know, what she did, how often she was there, you know, taking care of the babies.
This is what they do as registered nurses. And they kept careful track of the time she was in the nursery. And, unfortunately, the eight hours of the more than 100 hours they were there from March 17th to March 22nd. You know, she was rarely there except to feed the babies when the cameras were rolling, and just, you know, a little bit when the cameras were not rolling.
They urged her to come in, bathe the babies, change the babies, hold the babies, love the babies, feed the babies and she didn`t. She was just basically missing action. A lot of times, she was out of the home. We know she was shopping for clothing or other things. And she needed to be with her babies when they came home from the hospital because otherwise she has no meaningful involvement with them, A.J.
She`s not going to be able to bond with her babies and her babies with her. She`s the mom. The nurses are not babysitters. They`re there to support her, guide her, help her in any way, teach her how to parent her babies, her premature babies. And unfortunately, they couldn`t do that if she was literally not in the house.
HAMMER: All right. Let`s move on to claim number three. The octomom`s response to the incredible claim by the nurses that some of the nannies that the octomom hired tested positive for tuberculosis. Let`s watch the octomom on that.
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SULEMAN: There was two individuals who, because they`ve had vaccinations as children, it shows positive. My mom said the same thing. So their chest x-ray is clear and that`s all that matters. There was a nanny with a cough. It didn`t mean she had TB. I wasn`t comfortable with anyone even having a cold, so she was asked to leave.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HAMMER: All right, Gloria. Back to you on this. Octomom claiming there was no danger. Is that how you see it?
ALLRED: No, of course. We see it as a real risk and, you know, we didn`t say that she hired them or didn`t hire them. Again, that wouldn`t be accurate. What we said is these nannies, a lot of them, a number of them - 15 of them appeared for training in the home - in her home, training by Kaiser Permanente and our nurses and our representatives were present. So they were able to observe what happened. And, yes. One nanny who appeared had a very deep cough. They were also told that there were positive test results for some other nannies for TB and that they really need to have a chest x-ray to confirm whether they had TB. We don`t know if they did or not.
But the point is this, that any nannies who might have tested positive, whether or not subsequently their chest x-rays were clear, they shouldn`t have been in the home, anywhere near those babies, anywhere near those six other children, anywhere near the nurses, the nannies, you know, parents, grandparents - anybody else in that home, because tuberculosis, A.J. is airborne and that is not a risk anybody should be taking.
HAMMER: No. Absolutely not. I have one more claim I want to get to quickly, Gloria. Octomom also answered a claim that she had enough money for a Jacuzzi but not enough to pay for security for her home. Let`s watch that.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SULEMAN: I didn`t buy a Jacuzzi. It was donated by friends. And in regards to a security team, I actually have a friend who is working on security who is also donating.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So are you working on security?
SULEMAN: Oh, yes. That takes precedence.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HAMMER: Gloria, I only have 10 seconds for your answer, but are you satisfied by that explanation?
ALLRED: Working on security? There have been reports of three intruders there. One of our nannies actually was asked by Nadya to call 911 because Nadya didn`t want to have yet another call from her to 911 about a potential intruder in the backyard. She needed to get security immediately and that is an investment in her children and her children`s safety, her babies` safety. And that`s not something that should be put off.
HAMMER: All right. I`ll leave it at that. Gloria, we always appreciate you being with us. Thanks so much.
ALLRED: Thank you.
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