Keiran Lee said he might have nearly killed Angela White during their first scene together. Then White went on camera and corrected the story that had made headlines.
Lee said they filmed for more than an hour. Two days later, he heard White had returned to Australia with severe stomach pain and gone to a doctor. He believed her appendix had burst during the scene.
“I could have killed Angela White,” he said.
The story spread because it sounded almost impossible: one scene, a medical emergency, and a co-star convinced he had caused it.
Then White appeared on Barstool’s Only Stans podcast. She confirmed that she had been hospitalized and needed emergency surgery. But she said the most dramatic part of Lee’s story was wrong.
“My appendix actually did not burst,” she said. She had appendicitis, and doctors removed her appendix. She also said there was no medical evidence that the scene had caused it. In her view, the timing was probably a coincidence.
She described the story as blown out of proportion by the media. The surgery itself was real. The claim that Lee had nearly killed her was not something she confirmed.
White said her recovery was quick. Four days after surgery, she was already at a porn expo. And the incident did not end their working relationship. She and Lee worked together again afterward and remained friends.
That is what makes the story stranger than the headline. The version that travelled furthest was the one told by the man who thought he had caused the injury. White’s own version was less sensational: appendicitis, emergency surgery, and no proof the scene had anything to do with it.
When a dramatic story goes viral before the person at its center can correct it, which version do people remember?👇