“Eric Threatened Me With Sex Tape,” Says BB’s Brigitte
July 11, 2008 by Amber
Filed under News, Reality TV, Sex Tape
Since her snap eviction from the Australian Big Brother house on Wednesday night, there’s been a surge of Brigitte-related news on the web, not all of it pleasant.
Throughout her time in the house, blonde bombshell Brigitte spoke of an “Eric,” someone who everyone on the outside – and inside, for a time – thought was her boyfriend. In short, she was terrified of interacting with any of the males on the show, for fear her “beau” would take it the wrong way and think she was flirting or trying to start a new relationship.
Apparently, this wasn’t far from the truth. Brigitte was literally terrified of even talking to any of the boys in the Big Brother compound, but not for the reasons given on the 7 p.m. Daily Shows.
In an interview with YourTV.com.au, 21-year-old Brigitte revealed that just prior to entering the Big Brother house, “Eric” had threatened her with the existence of a sex tape involving her, and told her that if she acted up with any of the boys, he’d release it to the worldwide web.
Needless to say, Brigitte was distraught, and cites this as the only reason behind her two months of tantrums and cries to go home.
However, the day after her mid-week eviction, Eric made an announcement on a Big Brother forum, telling fans across the country that Brigitte was nothing but a crazed “stalker” who “threatened to kill herself” on a regular basis and “bashed” up any girl who came near him.
As always, there are two sides to every story. To get Brigitte’s side of the story, follow the jump.
Q. Speaking of boys, there’s something I have to ask you – this is a bit of a sensitive subject.
[Groans] I’m sure I’ve been asked about it all day.
Q. I’m sure you have but I’m going to make you answer it one more time: I want to ask about Eric, who popped up on your eviction episode. I’ve heard a rumour he has some sort of sex tape with you in it. What’s going on?
Okay, I’ll tell you the story. He… how do I word this? We were never going out. I made it clear to the housemates that he was not, is not, and will never be my boyfriend. On the day I left for the house he told me that if I embarrassed him by hooking up with any of the guys in the house, then he would embarrass me by releasing this tape. Which I didn’t know had been made, and I still don’t know if it’s real or not.
Q. You’ve never seen it.
Never seen it, didn’t know that it was made. So it could be made up – it could just be him trying to threaten me.
Q. You’re saying he’s being a bit sneaky.
A bit sneaky, yep. So I was kind of… I don’t know if you noticed, I’m pretty sure the whole country noticed, but I was being a bit of a, um, a cow to the other guys in the house.
Q. I may have noticed.
[Laughs] Whenever they got a bit too close I thought it would be perceived as something that it’s not. Which would result in a video being shown. So I’d have a bit of a go at them, and I wasn’t really friends with any of the guys in the house in the first six weeks. That made my time bad – it was shitty that it was like that, that that’s what was ruining my time in the house.
Q. You didn’t want to tell the other housemates?
I didn’t want to tell anyone else my reason for it, because I just didn’t want everyone to know. It’s not something you want to tell everyone, that there’s a sex tape. But I decided to tell Ben and Bianca about six weeks into the show, during a game of “snaps” – which is our little game where you figure out words. And they understood straight away why I was being why I had been. I told them not to tell everyone and obviously they went and told everyone! But it turned out to be good, because everyone helped me through it. They thought about it with me and said he probably doesn’t have a tape, and said he’s making it up, and even if he does have a tape it’s illegal, to do with without you knowing, and he’ll get in a lot of trouble.
Q. So what did you do in the house after that?
During the last four weeks in the house I just decided to forget about it. If there is a tape, there is; if there’s not, there’s not. I can handle it when I get out.
Q. Once that was off your chest, did you become a lot closer to the other housemates?
Yeah. I did. I was so happy that I could just talk to Ben and Rory. I really like them. I was so happy I could just talk to them, muck around with them like friends do, and not have to keep my distance and worry about not being in the spa when they are, and stupid rules like that. Ridiculous things were wrecking my time in the house. But I got over that and everything turned out okay… until I came out of the house and there was all this mess.
Q. How are you going to handle it?
I’m just brushing it off. I did nothing wrong, and I enjoyed my last couple of weeks in the house. That’s all that matters.
Q. It’s interesting you say you were holding back, because some housemates who’ve left the house have said they thought you were playing a character.
I wasn’t playing a character – I was just being a lesser version of myself. I was being myself, I wasn’t being someone else, but there were certain things I had to hold back from because I didn’t want some tape suddenly surfacing on everyone’s computers.
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