14 DAY TRIAL // Throughout the years, Jenny McCarthy has received plenty of negative media attention for comments she made regarding autism in children, which she believes is triggered by vaccines. As it is, she doesn’t need any more negative attention for things she never said, so she’s making sure she’s fighting false rumors.
The other day, reports started making the rounds online that Jenny had changed her stance on vaccines because she realized that her son Evan, who was the reason she came to believe that vaccines were linked to autism, did not have the disorder after all.
The reports cited a new interview Jenny gave to an established publication, but they were actually traced back to a 2010 piece of which she had already said contained misquotes.
She’s doing it once more on her Twitter – and, as you can imagine, she’s absolutely fuming that they have surfaced once more and are being passed around as legitimate information.
“Stories circulating online, claiming that I said my son Evan may not have autism after all, are blatantly inaccurate and completely ridiculous. Evan was diagnosed with autism by the Autism Evaluation Clinic at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital and was confirmed by the State of California (through their Regional Center),” she writes.
“The implication that I have changed my position, that my child was not initially diagnosed with autism (and instead may suffer from Landau-Kleffner Syndrome), is both irresponsible and inaccurate. These stories cite a ‘new’ Time Magazine interview with me, which was actually published in 2010, that never contained any such statements by me. Continued misrepresentations, such as these, only serve to open wounds of the many families who are courageously dealing with this disorder,” Jenny says.
She adds she and her people are looking into the situation to determine who started the rumors, to pursue legal action against them.
Radar Online, the online publication sister with tabloid Star Magazine, was just one of the outlets running the story, with many others linking back to it. It is no longer available, so McCarthy’s people seem to be doing a good job already.