just for giggles, let’s dig in our memories and rerun all the statements that LB has said in the press since Oct ‘06...including sworn testimony, about ‘planning’ a baby, finding out Anna was preg “together” with preg tests, knew for certain at b’day party (Jan 21) cause she ‘ate the entire cake’, going “baby-stuff shopping”, holding her hand while she was taking drugs, (allegedly in Jan/Feb/Mar) taking CPR classes “in case something when wrong’ etc etc etc etc ......got a good picture??? ok, then cast your eyeballs on THIS, from ABC NEWS 20/20 (stars added by me for emphasis):
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=2706639&page=2
By New Year’s, Smith was back in Los Angeles, and she and Birkhead kissed and made up. But ****within months****, they were arguing again, and Birkhead was ready to end their relationship.
******Birkhead said that when ***he ended*** the relationship, Smith told him that *****he might “feel really dumb” ******in a couple of months*****, but *******wouldn’t further elaborate.******* He *******suspected****** she was pregnant — which turned out to be the case — and said he felt certain he was the father.
By May, Smith’s pregnancy had leaked to the tabloid press — with Birkhead mentioned as the father...”
[example:
May 3 2006 ~ Anna Nicole Smith reportedly pregnant -article released by UPI (from above link, “birkhead said this irked HK”)
(and I’d bet five cents, the ‘leak’ that birkhead was a potential daddy came from HK)]
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whoa nellie! THIS IMPLIES that ANS was keeping her pregnancy SECRET from him and she was several months pregnant when he found out.....a happy couple planning a baby together every step of the way?????? Maybe not, after all.
This 20/20 interview appears to be in direct conflict with his Sworn Testimony in Seidlin’s court and in what he told Opri.
example:
In the ***early stages**** of Smith’s pregnancy, Birkhead said, he was involved in everything from selecting a name to seeing the ultrasounds to listening to the baby’s heartbeat. Then, at some point, ****Smith decided to cut ties****.
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/wmview.php?ArtID=9033
example:
May ‘06 - (TMZ)When initially asked by the news site whether he was the father of Smith’s baby, he offered a sort of non-denial “no comment,” saying, “I’m not going to deny she’s pregnant or that I’m the father.”
He later told the site that he was pressured into making the statement by Smith’s sidekick lawyer, Stern. For his part, Stern denies that he encouraged Birkhead to stay mum on any fatherly developments. “Anna wants that guy completely out of her life and obviously he is having trouble dealing with it,” Stern told TMZ.
Birkhead quickly issued the site a response to Stern’s statement. “I was not going to discuss the matter publicly, but since Howard K. Stern is attempting to bash me . . . I have been told that I am expecting a child, I have seen the ultrasound and have spoken to doctors.”
(source: tmz)
for someone who supposedly knew about the baby since Jan, and had been actively ‘planning’ it seems odd to use the expression, ‘I have been told’..maybe it’s just me.. wonder what derogatory term LB will have for 20/20’s Deborah Roberts when this interview comes back to haunt him. lol :)
But now I'm thinking about it again and his statement about the hospital and the fingerprint Babybook, the drugs and Howard and that Larry is "mixing" his stories. IIRC, he said Howard was giving her drugs when that is what she wouldn't have been pregnant at the time. That might have been when she was in the hospital supposedly with Pneumonia??