a local (calif) interview early on with the father was very interesting - he stated that they had a house for Octomom ‘where nobody would ever find it’ and that it was ‘huge’.
Now the question poses, with Octo now having possession of a 1/2mil house, can the state of Calif now sue and lien the house for medical bills incurred with the octuplets and with the ongoing bills for her existing brain-damaged children? I sure hope so.
In the NBC interview, Suleman said she “longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that ... I really lacked, I believe, growing up.” She called her childhood “pretty dysfunctional.”
Her father was a guest on Oprah and disputed her daughter’s statements in the NBC interview, telling Winfrey his daughter was spoiled.
“We gave her so much love,” he said. “No child has so much love. I thought what she meant is because she is the only child. I’m sure that’s what she meant. She really wanted a brother or sister.”
NBC’s interview with Suleman was its most-watched prime-time show that week. “Dateline NBC” hadn’t seen an audience that large since Matt Lauer interviewed Prince William and Prince Harry in 2007 — an indication that viewers have an intense interest in the subject.
It’s why television shows have fought for pieces of the story, like Suleman’s father on Winfrey’s Chicago-based show. The biggest interview remaining is her fertility doctor, who has declined to comment since the octuplets’ birth.
“Good Morning America” heavily promoted an interview on Monday with Denis Beaudoin, who said he was in a relationship with Suleman in the late 1990s and had donated sperm at her request. Suleman has said Beaudoin is not the father of the octuplets, but he wants DNA testing.
Over the weekend, ABC teased the story in promos that didn’t identify Beaudoin by name, but urged viewers to tune in Monday to find out.
Murphy called it a legitimate part of the story, and said Beaudoin had approached the network.
The promotion may have paid off: “Good Morning America” was within 218,000 viewers of NBC’s first-place “Today” show on Monday, an unusually tight margin between them — although ABC’s Oscars telecast the night before also helped “Good Morning America.”