Reality Show & Baby for Casey Anthony
Casey Anthony is caught in more lies as she speaks out for the first time since being acquitted in her daughter’s murder
Her tweets are defiant and antagonistic. Under the now-private Twitter handle @Kisssykiss, Casey Anthony shares her opinions on everyone from Donald Trump to Taylor Swift, mercilessly mocks her critics (of which there are millions) and keeps changing her mind about being in the public eye. “I am truly thinking about getting my story out there…i certainly won’t turn $$ down. Stay tune (sic),” she wrote in February, taunting those who are still horrified that she is walking free nearly six years after a jury acquitted her of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. But just a few weeks later on March 7, Anthony insisted, “For people not to want to hear about me, or what I am doing, they sure are all in my business...never ask for $$ Repulsed that my parents did.”
It’s nearly impossible to tell when she’s being truthful. And now, in both a recent interview with the Associated Press and a bizarre string of direct messages to an In Touch editor, Anthony, 31, speaks to the press for the first time since her daughter’s heartbreaking 2008 death, giving wildly paradoxical statements, sometimes in the same breath. She changes the story her lawyer told during her trial for firstdegree murder, reveals that she wants to do a reality show — and admits that she wants another baby. “There’s still some litigation going on, so it does surprise me that she gave an interview. She’s just trying to justify her lying. She has not taken responsibility for anything,” Orlando-based attorney Sherri K. Dewitt tells In Touch of Anthony, who has been sued by the meter reader who found Caylee’s remains in a swampy area near Anthony’s parents’ Orlando, Fla., home. “It’s very frustrating because this is a tragic situation, and the more inconsistencies [she tells] about it the more difficult it is to ascertain the truth.”
She can’t keep her stories
straight. Anthony’s attorney argued during her 2011 murder trial that Caylee drowned in the family swimming pool and Anthony was “conditioned” to help her father, George, cover it up because of years of sexual abuse ( he vehemently denies all allegations). But in a March 7 interview with the AP, she claimed not to remember much about that day and admits she lied to cops about it. “I’m still not even certain…about what happened. I can’t tell you one way or another,” she insisted. “The last time I saw my daughter, I believed that she was alive and was going to be OK, and that’s what was told to me.” These statements show that “there’s probably no evidence to support what her lawyer said at closing argument,” says Dewitt. (George and Cindy Anthony’s attorney tells In Touch that her allegations about her father’s involvement in Caylee’s death are “baseless.”) Asked whether she wondered how her daughter really died, Anthony insisted, “Absolutely, every single day.”
She didn’t act like that at the time. The former party girl infamously entered a “hot body contest” and got a new tattoo in the days following Caylee’s disappearance. (The child was last seen on June 16, 2008. Increasingly suspicious of Casey, her mother reported Caylee missing one month later.) Now, outrageously, Casey has clearly thought about be- coming a mom again. It’s an idea she briefly floats and then immediately takes back in her AP interview. “If I am blessed enough to have another child — if I’d be dumb enough to bring another kid into this world knowing that there’d be a potential that some jackass, their little snot-nose kid would then say something mean to my kid,” she said, “I don’t think I could live with that.”
She wants money. “Against popular belief, I am not trying to cash in on Caylee’s death,” she told In Touch after learning she wouldn’t be paid for an interview (or for anything at all by In Touch), but then she immediately added, “but why would I do an interview for nothing. What would I get out of it?” On Twitter, she also hinted that she’d be willing to be on Discovery’s Naked and Afraid and was planning to do live online videos. In direct messages, she told an In Touch editor that she might film a reality show, claimed she was kidding, then teased that she knows who would watch, all within the space of a few days. One thing is for sure, she promised In Touch: “Eventually people will be seeing more of me. I am not hiding from something I did not do.”
There are plenty of people she should hide from, including Nancy Grace. The former prosecutor, who has not held back in expressing her belief that Casey was responsible for Caylee’s death, said about Casey’s recent comments: “It makes me feel angry and it makes me feel sad for Caylee. Caylee never had a chance.” ◼