Nadya Suleman has opened up about her controversial choice to sit down down with NBC Information journalist Ann Curry for an interview simply days after giving beginning to octuplets again in 2009.
In Lifetime‘s new actuality collection Confessions of Octomom, Suleman displays on the interview, noting she was “in a state of shock” and “not there” when speaking with Curry about welcoming eight infants conceived by way of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
“[The hospital] let me choose what interviewer [I wanted], so I opted [for] a information anchor and I didn’t know who she was. I by no means watched something she did,” Suleman mentioned in Monday’s (March 10) episode, per Us Weekly. “So I picked Ann Curry. She was one of many solely girls. I assumed I’d really feel comfy speaking to a girl.”
Suleman defined she was burdened forward of the interview, sharing, “I felt horrible about myself. I gained 150 kilos throughout the entire being pregnant, so at that time, I used to be nonetheless about 100 kilos heavier than regular… I had no concept what she was going to ask me. I had by no means accomplished an interview earlier than.”
The interview, which aired on Right this moment and Dateline in 2009, noticed Curry asking questions many viewers wished answered, together with asking for a response to those that known as Suleman “irresponsible and egocentric” for having so many kids. Previous to welcoming the octuplets, Suleman was already a mom to 6 youngsters.
“I used to be foggy in my head. I actually wasn’t lucid. I used to be additionally ripped open, and I used to be on Vicodin for ache,” Suleman said. “Are you able to think about being interrogated and interrogated whilst you have simply given beginning, all these hormones? You’re very, very depressed. You’re in a state of shock. I used to be not there.”
Suleman mentioned she “felt beneath assault” and so went into “survival mode,” explaining, “When a human is beneath assault psychologically, they’re not within the state of mind to be clear or sincere. They’ll defend themselves, and I utilized each coping mechanism.”
The Lifetime actuality star famous that the hospital arrange the interview so she might “set the document straight,” however she wasn’t in the proper state of mind and simply wished to be at residence together with her kids.
“It’s a blur to me,” she mentioned of the NBC interview. “I simply don’t even keep in mind. I simply know I used to be in fixed protection.”
She returned to the Right this moment present in 2011 for a follow-up interview with Curry.
Confessions of Octomom is a six-part documentary collection that follows Suleman as she gives an intimate have a look at her historical past and her life immediately as a mother of 14 and her latest position as a grandmother. Together with her octuplets turning sixteen this January and her different six kids starting from 17 to 23 years-old, Suleman has been out of the general public eye for years. For the primary time, she and her household reveal a a lot completely different life than the world has ever been aware about earlier than.
Confessions of Octomom, Mondays, 10 pm et, Lifetime