Larry Birkhead

Well, you know, honestly, the thing with Ricky Martin, I mean, he was always really cool to me.

They always let me go backstage.

I had really good access and stuff.

The thing that happened to me is I wrote an article and after like the 15th concert, I was like, you know, what else can I say?

But, you know, when your editor is telling you what to do, you're like, you know, hey, I've got to do this.

So I remember it was around Christmas and I had, I think I was all the way up in like Columbus or something and

And there was a Christmas show.

And there was a lot of stuff that happened.

I don't think that anything was like, oh my God, crazy.

But it was like, I was like saying, okay, here's what happened to the editors.

And I turned my story in.

Well, they took everything that I wrote.

And then one little sentence that I wrote that was said that a male dancer gave Ricky a kiss on the cheek.

So that was the headline.

And ran with it.

So then I started getting calls from like Ricky's publicist.

And she was like saying,

know oh he's you know what he's what's going on you know it's like so i mean i don't want to get into like too much because this really wasn't it wasn't my as far as like the intention it wasn't my intention and then i was at the the mercy of like a newspaper but like after that i i um because of i understood where they were coming from of like you know why did this happen when there was this and this and

I kind of changed my focus.

I was like, and I had a couple of run-ins.