There was an earlier “settlement” of $10,000:
Lee had already reached out and apologized to the McClains before the suit and reached a $10,000 settlement agreement with the couple in March 2012.
But the McClains allege they’ve continued to receive hate mail, threatening email and an inflated media presence outside their home from people who didn’t get the update that Lee’s initial tweet pointed to the right address.
“I don’t know what my intention was,” Lee told Winfrey. “But angry is not a justification for stupidity.
“There’s nothing I can say that can defend what I did. It was stupid.”
I don’t see how they are going to get around the fact that they already settled their claim against Lee.
“We settled too cheap” usually won’t cut it.
He knows damn good and well what his intention was, it would just be further stupidity to admit it right now.