I'm A Little Confused

I know I confuse easily. I'm getting old, and so things take awhile for me to process. The thing I was most curious about reading last night and today was what Jeremy Piven had to say about his mercury issues. I wanted to see how he was going to spin it, and if everyone would bite. Well, with the tabloids you know they will bite. Do you realize that most of the weekly tabloids will not run a story if the publicist denies it for fear of alienating someone later and not getting an exclusive. They could literally see Mary Kate Olsen tasering people on the street screaming, "I love In-N-Out" and if her publicist said no, it didn't happen, they wouldn't run the story because the tabloid might need a favor from the publicist down the road.

Anyway, the tabloids seemed to buy into Piven's story. But I don't. Here is what Piven had to say to People.

"The reality is, I was brought to my knees by this illness. It feels like the heaviest bout of mono you've ever had in your life. It was completely overwhelming to the point where you get vertigo and it's not healthy. This was the dream of my career, to do Broadway. The last thing I wanted to do was leave the show. I'm so proud of the work that was done there."

Umm, yeah. OK, so Jeremy left the show the week before Christmas and the doctors led us to believe they had just diagnosed this thing and that was why Jeremy was so sick. Is everyone on board with that version of the story? That if Jeremy didn't stop ingesting mercury and get some rest he was going to do some serious damage to himself. That is the impression I got in everything I read.

So, then, if that is the case, explain this statement from Jeremy he also said last night. "I haven't had a piece of fish in five months."

Forgive me if I can't add, but that would mean that he would not have had any mercury entering his body from about August at least through fish anyway. I thought his doctor said that Jeremy was eating fish all the time. Up to five times a day. That he went to Thailand to get treatment. It sounds to me like he was getting treatment, or at least was aware of the problem a long time ago. So, I would think in August it would have been much worse then in December and surely his doctors would not have waited four months to suggest Jeremy get treatment if his mercury levels were the highest they had ever seen.

The crap story was working until Jeremy added that part. Then it all just kind of fell away into the bull it really is. So close Jeremy. Can't wait to see what story you come up with for the next time.