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Transcript Letter: A Stalker Harrasses The View's Elizabeth Hasselbeck
Transcript Letter: A Stalker Harrasses The View's Elizabeth Hasselbeck
ABC The View Transcript:
Barbara Walters:
We also heard some disturbing news. Because you viewers are in a sense considered our family, we want to share something with you. In recent weeks Elizabeth and her husband Tim have been stalked and harrassed by an individual or individuals who seem to want to do them harm. Now someone has contacted newspapers. So today Elizabeth and Tim has asked me to read this statement, which I will do now:
"This is a malicious attempt to harrass our family. These allegations have been reviewed by Child Protective Authories and have been found to be absolutely false. This matter has been turned over to the district attorney's office for prosecution. The Prosecution of the individual or individuals responsible for the totally false accusations."
And for all of us here, Elizabeth and I think you know that you have our love and our respect and we couldn't care about you or Tim more than we do for and you have our admiration and affection and our total support.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck:
Thank You. That means alot to me. I can't tell you how much that really means to me alot. These false allegations and accusations have been very disturbing. But we are more happy now that we have this situation on it's way of being completely resolved. So we are thankful for that and for all of your support.
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Wednesday April 12, 2006
Lloyd Grove's Lowdown
'View' host plagued by creepy calls
Calls from an anonymous troublemaker have distressed Elisabeth Hasselbeck of 'The View' and her husband, Giants quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.
Daytime television personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck has been having a very rough couple of weeks.
According to her colleagues on "The View" — on which the 28-year-old Hasselbeck is the designated conservative among Star Jones, Joy Behar, "Today" show-bound Meredith Vieira and mother superior Barbara Walters — she's being "stalked" by an anonymous caller.
The caller, apparently a woman, has been making false and creepy allegation about Hasselbeck and her husband, New York Giants quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, involving their 1-year-old daughter, Grace Elisabeth, to child protective services authorities — and, yesterday afternoon, to Lowdown.
A woman with a Southern twang, who refused to identify herself, phoned this column claiming to be "a friend of family," and, during a two-minute conversation, made unsupported allegations about the Hasselbecks before hanging up. I'm told that the New York City Administration for Children's Services has received and investigated similar unsupported anonymous complaints.
"This is a malicious attempt to harass our family," the Hasselbecks told Lowdown exclusively in a statement. "These allegations have been fully reviewed by child protective authorities and medical professionals and found to be absolutely false. This matter has been turned over to the District Attorney's office for prosecution of the individual(s) responsible for the false accusation."
Yesterday, Walters told me: "All of us at 'The View' love, respect and support Elisabeth. She is an enormous addition to our 'View' family, and we are just sad that this has caused her any pain." Walters speculated that Hasselbeck's tormentor "might be somebody who doesn't like her politics or maybe somebody who's crazy or maybe somebody who wants the baby. We just don't know."
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