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Mindy McCready tells what happened with her and Kari Ann


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Your 'Celebrity Rehab' roommate, Kari Ann Peniche, blamed you for leaking her provocative homemade video with Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart. What's your response to that accusation?

She is an extremely disturbed and very sick individual. The thing that she craves the most -- to be famous, is also the worst thing for her, because she is such a sick person. I do want people to understand what happened in that situation is not at all the story that she's told, and everything that comes out of her mouth is complete and utter bull. I did nothing to her but try to help her, and all she did was steal from me and lie and try to use every situation she possibly could to be more famous and get more attention ... I hope that she does get help, and I hope that she does get better.

Do you want to tell us your side of the story?

Kari Ann had copied my computer on her hard drive. She stole all my information. Not only did she steal every bit of my new record coming out, my phone, my bank account information ... she also stole thousands of dollars from me. When I took those hard drives, I took them because my stuff was all over them. Never in a million years was I going to leave my entire life from my computer and everything personal to me at her house on those hard drives. I didn't even know what else was on there.

I went back to Florida and got a phone call a few days later from Eric Dane saying, "I understand you have a video that belongs to me," and I said, "I don't even know what you're talking about." I didn't know it was on there. He said, "How can we work this situation out?" I said, "I have no problem giving you whatever you want. You can have the hard drives back. I just want to get my information erased off of them."

Of course, you can never really erase anything. So I sent my computer person the hard drive and went to Eric Dane's lawyer's office. What they did was take the information that belonged to Eric and put it on his hard drive. They took Kari Ann's information on a separate hard drive. Those two hard drives that had information of mine were destroyed. We all signed the confidentiality agreement that said none of us would talk about what was on there, none of us had any other copies of it. Except, the day that Kari Ann was supposed to sign the agreement, she didn't show up. And the next day the video was on Gawker.com. And to this day, she still has not signed the confidentiality agreement. Eric Dane and I both know very much beyond any shadow of a doubt that I didn't have anything to do with that.

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In that article, Mindy also talks about how she chooses the wrong man, and I think she does the same thing when choosing friends.

So are you in love now?

I am! I'm dating a producer, songwriter, genius musician. He's a wonderful guy from New Orleans. He is the sweetest and most wonderful person I have ever had in my life. When I finished 'Celebrity Rehab,' Dr. Drew [Pinsky] told me, "Listen Mindy, over the next little while, if you are out some place and meet a good-looking guy and there are flashes and lightning in your eyes, and it's one of those moments where it's love-at-first-sight, RUN. Run quickly because your people-picker is broken, and he's probably another bad guy, so run, run, run." And this guy that I am dating now, it's not one of those situations. It's a scenario where we were friends, and that's all we were, and neither of us were interested in each other past that. And then, the next thing you know, we really actually loved each other. We became best friends. I've never had that happen before in my life. I've always had the love-at-first-sight thing. And that seems to be very fleeting. This is a different kind of love ... a grown-up kind of love,

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Exactly! What the hell was Mindy doing living with Kari Ann in the first place? She loses some respect points from me for that. Not saying that Mindy is flat out lying about any of this, but the whole story seems fishy to me. I somehow don't see either of them as technological masterminds and who the hell doesn't have their computer protected with a password? The whole thing is just odd.

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drama, drama, drama.....WHY would u even involve urself with someone like KA? worry about ur freakin' son!!

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for the sake of humanity, i hope that ur a troll.

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