Anguish over reality TV leads to lawsuit after 'ugly sister' suicide

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Anguish over reality TV leads to lawsuit after 'ugly sister' suicide
By James Bone
The trend towards voyeuristic reality television may have gone too far for some participants



PRODUCERS of the reality TV show Extreme Makeover promised Deleese Williams a “Cinderella-like” transformation that would forever fix her crooked teeth, deformed jaw and small breasts.
Relatives, who had always kept mum about the ugly duckling of the family, say that they were encouraged to mock her looks on camera and point out her physical flaws.



But the night before her life-changing plastic surgery the Hollywood producers dumped Mrs Williams and told her to go back home to Texas. “How can I go back as ugly as I left?” she sobbed. “I was supposed to come home pretty.”

Her return provoked a family crisis for the guilt-ridden relatives who had revealed their real thoughts about Mrs Williams’s looks — especially her sister Kellie McGee, who was already struggling with bipolar disorder. Miss McGee moved out from the home she shared with her sister and brother-in-law. Four months later she died from an overdose of pills, alcohol and cocaine.

Mrs Williams is now suing the ABC television network for unspecified damages for the emotional distress caused by her sister’s apparent suicide.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1788480,00.html

[johnnie]

1. That sucks

What else is there to say?

[sasquatch]

2. Boy am I glad I don't watch that show

What a bunch of cold hearted bastards, I hope they own ABC after it's over with.

[BikeWriter]

3. phuck...