Larry Birkhead

transformed herself you know back and this was like the trim spa era where she was like you know you know and and she thought all of that for this do you just say that and then obviously no nobody wants to feel like they look old and stuff like right you know women especially it's like you know so it's like i i didn't know what to do in that moment because i was like the paparazzi's out there tears are streaming down her face she's you know crying and um

I remember I didn't want my, my instinct was to obviously like to comfort her and to hug her.

But I, I remember the paparazzi is there and I'm like, so I kind of froze.

And so she turns and she takes her arms and puts them around me and she's still crying.

And I'm like, and I know this sounds petty, but from what it was, it hurt her feelings.

It hurt me to see her hurt.

But at the same time, that particular incident, when we left the Hooters restaurant, then they started taking pictures of us leaving.

I'm holding my camera bag.

I'm holding one of her dog's bags.

and she's trying to compose herself and she's flipped the switch again and she's like she's got her leg wrapped around a pole and she's leaning back and doing poses and stuff and she's really she's working the camera on the way out because that's she's trying to recover in that moment and those pictures wind up um i i think they came out in a magazine who's anna nicole's mystery guy and blah blah blah and i was like oh and so um

she really didn't get that worried about that because it didn't, I don't want to say it was like breaking major news.

It was, it was in magazines and stuff.

And it was like next, you know, next week's edition is coming out next or whatever.

But it, to me, um,

Later on, that would be a moment that would actually come back and be a piece of evidence that would prove that I had a relationship with her after the paternity stuff hit.

Because Howard, her attorney, went out and said that I didn't date Anna and that I just had about 15 pictures with her and that we're not going to respond to every Tom, Dick, and Larry that goes out and says they had a relationship with Anna.

you know and so that was part of the paternity stuff when news broke about her getting pregnant and people were trying to figure out well who's this and who's that and so um but that particular moment in hooters was a mistake that actually kind of put anna's foot forward to say okay that wasn't so bad you know he didn't he wasn't trying to get the press and it was my fault she recognized that there's nothing really that we could have done to get out of the moment um but she uh

And moving forward, there were other things and other times that would test whether she was open to me being seen with her or not.

And I never forced that because I was always respectful of the fact that this was her image.

And, you know, and I didn't want to be I also felt like I would fail that test.