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Posted by gin on March 9, 2005, 7:38 am, in reply to "BEWARE: Diary of an Affair" They had previously edited the show using the comment "When we got hooked up, our sex was like a wildfire, it was hot, it was passionate" to describe his affair (in reality, he made that comment about ME and HIM, not his affair). It has been re-edited to use the comment he actually made in response to their question, which was "It wasn't exciting, there was no passion in it, it was a really empty feeling". Now doesn't THAT change the story? When we decided to do this, it was in hopes that our story would help others who were feeling hopeless about rebuilding after infidelity. Because of the distortion, we instead regretted participating in it at all. We are very pleased that they have finally taken responsibility for intentionally distorting our story to sensationalize the affair and taken steps to correct it. The steps they have taken...apologizing for causing us further harm, taking full responsibility and admitting that they did misuse the comment we alleged, and re-editing both the audio and video to retell the story correctly was what we had asked of them since the beginning; although many have told us that the "machine" is simply too big and there are far too many players to ever expect anything of that magnitude. Instead, that is exactly what has taken place...and I have to give a lot of credit to everyone working together to make this happen. I hope our ongoing speaking out has had the desired effect...which is to make the media think twice about sensationalizing infidelity while under the guise of a documentary aimed at helping others. I have been assured that a lesson was learned by all and that nothing like this would happen in the future of Ellman Productions by the producers and Linda Ellman herself. I spent a good deal of time posting warnings on the web, some in reality TV chatrooms but mostly in infidelity support sites, where they recruit for future episodes. I have agreed to post updates now that they have made good on their promise to correct their error, and I plan to do just that. I want to thank all of my friends who have helped us with this crusade and should you find my warning posted somewhere that I have failed to also post the update, please let me know so that I can retrace all my steps. Thanks to you all for being there for us!
We just received an amended copy of our episode of Diary of an Affair. As promised, they removed Brian's comment that was misused and replaced with what he actually said, both on the show and on the Style website. All future airings on both Style and E! should be the new version.
Ginger Davis
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