An interview with Michelle Theer: 'Sex, manipulation, and swing clubs'
Q. In terms of the way you are portrayed, these various flings on the Internet, what's that all about?
A. Well, tell me who you are referring to?
Q. When you are on the Internet, in a chat room, a guy named Nate, various people. You signed off as sexy brunette. In the stuff that I've looked at, there are references to you dating men off the Internet, meeting men off the Internet, going back a few years, prior to Fayetteville.
A. I did have an affair with someone in Alabama that I met on the Internet, but that was the only person.
Q. You mean prior to North Carolina?
A. Yeah.
Q. Charley McLendon [a North Carolina man who met Michelle on the Internet] testified there was a relationship?
A. Yeah, he really blew our relationship way up. I only saw him maybe three or four times.
Q. What were you looking for?
A. I guess I was looking for what I had lost with Marty, companionship, affection, fun, laughter, someone I could relax with, someone I could enjoy time with.
Q. Why did you lose that with Marty?
A.Well, we all change over time. And Marty had changed. I had changed, too. But Marty had become very rigid, very serious. . . .
Q. You weren't enjoying his company?
A. No. . . .
Q. There is stuff about you going to "swing clubs" and having sex with other people–is that stuff all true?
A. Not the way it was portrayed, no.
Q. How would you portray it?
A. I wasn't meeting people on the Internet and going to swing clubs, no.
Q. How would you end up in swing clubs? What is a swing club?
A. It is a place where couples go to meet other couples to have fun, drink, dance, flirt.
Q. It involves sex, too, doesn't it?
A. Possibly, yes. . . .
Q. Did you go to swing clubs with Diamond?
A. Once.
Q. And did it involve having sex with other people? That's what the record shows--at least that's what other people say. Did you have sex with other people?
A. No, actually, we went and we were dancing, and there was a really popular song that summer called "The Thong Song," and one of the couples we had been talking to that was sitting at our table, the guy made some fairly innocuous comment about thongs to me, and I don't even remember what it was. . . and John became violently jealous, grabbed me by the arm, and dragged me out. And that was sort of it for the night. . . .
Q. You have been with other men to other swing clubs?
A. I went one other time with one other person. . . a male friend.
Q. This is the kind of stuff implied–that you used sex to get men, manipulated them. You are sitting here telling me that's not the case. Do you think you did, and you don't realize it?
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