This whole Brooks Ayers story is somewhat confusing and we only covered it yesterday when it reached a head, so you’ll excuse me if I recap more than necessary. During the most recent season of the Real Housewives of The OC, Vicki Gunvalson’s now ex-boyfriend, Brooks Ayers, claimed to be battling Non-Hodkin’s Lymphoma. Multiple castmembers doubted Ayers’s story, including Viki’s own daughter, Briana (who also claimed Brooks tried to hit on her when she was pregnant, which Vicki refused to believe), but Brooks stuck to his guns. Brooks even gave an interview to E! News insisting that his cancer diagnosis was real and offering chemotherapy bills as supposed proof. Earlier this week, E! confirmed what everyone was suspecting and revealed that Brooks had not received treatment at the facility whose bills he offered as proof. Now, Brooks has apologized, sort of. He admitted that he faked the bills but it sounds like he’s still insisting he had cancer. What?!
“Words cannot express the deep regret that I have in fabricating documents to ‘prove’ to the world that I, in fact, have cancer. What I did was wrong and inexcusable. I acted alone, without Vicki [Gunvalson]’s knowledge, to produce documents for a reality TV show in hopes of putting doubts about my cancer to rest,” Ayers told E! News in an exclusive statement Wednesday. “I never intended to disclose my actual medical records or details about my private and personal medical history, thus the rationalization of presenting documents that weren’t true simply for a ‘storyline’ for the show.”
“From this day forward, my own personal journey with this disease will remain private as I initially intended over a year ago,” Ayers continued. “My sincerest apologies to my family, friends, loved ones, and those who are battling this horrid disease for any additional pain and/or stress that I have caused. As [University of Louisville basketball coach] Rick Pitino once said, ‘Mistakes can be good. They are fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching [life], I’ve learned from making mistakes.’ I made a mistake yet I have learned a huge lesson as well.”
Brooks bombshell revelation comes on the heels of E! News exclusive interview last week during which he continued to promise his cancer story was true.
“Absolutely I’m sticking by that,” Ayers shared with us when confirming his cancer battle. “Unfortunately, I wish it wasn’t true. It would be a lot easier if I didn’t have cancer just to be honest with you. The daily grind, the routines of reminding yourself that I’m sick and I need to do certain things and not do certain things.”
Brooks even went as far as providing fake documents to try to prove that he had undergone chemotherapy.
So he’s saying that he’s sorry he faked the documents to prove his cancer, but he’s not admitting he doesn’t have cancer or actually faked the cancer, he’s just saying he’ll keep his medical stuff “private.” And he’s insinuating that he submitted fake documents because he doesn’t want the real truth known. That he has cancer? That makes no sense whatsoever. The truth is that HE’S A LYING LIAR. (Link NSFW due to swearing.)
Meanwhile Vicki Gunvalson spoke to Extra about how she’s feeling now that she finally has to face the fact that Brooks was lying all along, as everyone was telling her. (My words.) Vicki claimed that she was “completely shocked” and that she went to the facility that denied treating Brooks, City of Hope, with him and that “He was there all morning so how do you think anything other than he’s getting chemo?”
Vicki swears she wasn’t in on it at all and that she bought Brooks’s act. She said “I’m guilty of loving him and believing him. Who hasn’t believed someone that you loved? And why would you lie about cancer when I’ve had three friends die of it in the last two years? I had my dearest friend just die of stomach cancer… My life is so abundant, I didn’t need to make a fake storyline, and I sure as hell wouldn’t make it up about Brooks… As God as my witness, I would never want to make something up like this; it’s actually quite sick.” I believe her. I mean she sounds like an idiot for dating this guy and buying it, but I believe she didn’t know. She said that “Karma” would get Brooks and that “I hate him with everything in me, and I don’t hate people, but I believed him, I trusted him, I defended him, took a bullet for him.” This lady should get a lot of therapy before she starts dating again because her douche meter is not only broken, it’s giving her opposite readings.
E! Online called out Vicki following her Extra! interview. They think she’s lying through her teeth, just like Brooks. They note how many times Vicki lied for Brooks, along with the fact that she promoted “detox” juices and claimed that they helped Brooks.
photo credit: Getty Images, Vicki Gunvalson and Bravo TV
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