Dr Oz, wife Lisa slam Olivia Nuzzi as ‘f**king girl reporter’ on call overheard by journo
Dr Mehmet Oz is running for Senate in Pennsylvania and when New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi tried to do a profile on him, she had to face a lot of difficulties. Although Nuzzi managed to write a profile and also publish it, she mentioned the anger she was subjected to and how unintentionally the Ozes gave her abundant comments after failing to cut the call when she phoned them.
Reportedly, when Nuzzi contacted Dr Oz by phone, his wife Lisa Oz picked it up only to hang up within seconds. However, the journalist called her again and this time the conversation got all heated. In her article, Nuzzi wrote: “‘How did you get my number?’ she asked sharply. I told her that her number was listed in public records, and this annoyed her too. ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘I should have gotten rid of that.’ I was about to explain that public records don’t work that way, but she cut in. ‘Have a nice day,’ she said, but it sounded like a cross between the way women of the South say ‘Bless your heart’ and men of Brooklyn call some asshole ‘pal’ after being cut off in traffic. Then she hung up.”
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But after the argument, Lisa’s call did not get disconnected and she “had mistakenly connected her device to what sounded like the sound system of a vehicle, meaning that as they engaged in paranoid conversation and argument for more than four minutes, I remained on the line, hearing every word of it.”
What Nuzzi heard after that she included in her article that read, “‘Who’s down at the office?’ Mrs Oz asked. ‘She’s down at the office,’ Dr Oz said. ‘Your father called and said there’s a reporter from The New Yorker waiting for me down there who said she had an appointment … We?! We had an appointment to meet today!’ He said this last thing with acid sarcasm.”
“‘You think she made it up?’ Mrs Oz asked. ‘I think she made it up completely!’ Dr Oz said. He sounded angry. ‘Y–y–you know what it’s — it’s — it’s called, it’s called lying also. It’s called being a liar.’ ‘This f*cking girl reporter,’ Mrs Oz said. ‘This is the girl reporter who broke into some guy’s house and stole all his photo albums.’ She was referring to an accusation made up by disgraced ex-Trump aide Corey Lewandowski in retaliation after I had reported details of his Single White Male obsession with a White House official,” the 28-year-old added.
In her piece, Nuzzi also claimed to hear the Ozes expressing their anger over Michelle Bouchard, a family friend who spoke to Nuzzi earlier, after which she got ensured that Lisa was indeed telling her acquaintances “don’t f*cking talk to [Nuzzi]” because of the “hit piece” she was supposedly gathering. The overheard conversation between the husband and wife went like: “Dr Oz interrupted Mrs Oz. ‘Michelle said stuff she shouldn’t have said.’ Mrs Oz became defensive. ‘Uh, no, not a lot —’ she said. Dr Oz became sharp. ‘She said things she shouldn’t have fucking said,’ he said, his voice rising. ‘She shouldn’t have fucking said —’ Mrs Oz interrupted Dr Oz. ‘She didn’t say —’ Dr Oz interrupted Mrs Oz. ‘She said shit she shouldn’t have said! That I was going to be the next leader of the Republican Party —’”
The apparent conversation went on with Mrs Oz saying, “‘No, she didn’t say that.’ You were the one who told me that!’ Dr Oz said. ‘You told me that’s what she said!’ ‘No — I —’ Mrs Oz said. ‘That Michelle told her I’m going to be the next leader of the Republican Party, shit like that, that’s what you told me she said!’ Dr Oz said. ‘I did not say anything about that,’ Mrs Oz said to Dr Oz. ‘She shouldn’t have fucking said that,’ Dr Oz said. ‘We’ve got to go lock our door because —’ ‘We should maybe call and keep an eye out,’ Mrs Oz said. ‘Here, I’ll drive.’”
Nuzzi said soon after that the call ended, but her phone rang again. “‘It was Lisa Oz,’ she said. ‘I picked it up and said hello. She paused, then she hung up on me. This time she was successful.’”