Shannon Value is placing herself to the check.
After years of hypothesis about Value’s doable involvement in her ex-husband Gary Coleman’s sudden demise, Value takes a lie detector check within the upcoming A&E present A&E present “Lie Detector: Truth or Deception.”
Within the Sunday premiere episode, former FBI agent George Olivo requested Value if she prompted Coleman’s deadly fall — and the lie detector check indicated “deception” after she denied it.
“You failed the exam regarding Gary’s fall,” he mentioned, per Individuals. “There’s two things I know for sure, Shannon One, you were not completely honest with me yesterday during this polygraph section.”
“And two, the other thing I know that’s 100% certain, is that there is more to this story that hasn’t been told. The body never lies. The body always tells the truth. And your body on that lie detector test spoke loud and clear, there’s something that caused you to fail this test.”
Coleman, who was beneath 5 toes tall attributable to therapy for a lifelong kidney illness, was finest recognized for “Diff’rent Strokes.” He married Value in 2007, however divorced in 2008. Following their break up, the exes continued residing collectively.
In Might of 2010, when Coleman was 42, he fell of their Utah dwelling and had an intracranial hemorrhage.
Value alleged that she discovered him after his fall. It was dominated an accident, and Value was by no means charged with against the law.
Within the Peacock documentary “Gary,” a number of of Coleman’s pals spoke out.
Darren Nord mentioned Coleman’s demise was “suspicious,” whereas his former supervisor, Dion Mial, mentioned of the tragedy, “We were absolutely stumped because there were way too many questions with no answers.”
“The fact that people come out and say, ‘She murdered Gary. She pushed him down the stairs.’ That really hurt me,” Value mentioned within the movie.
When Coleman was rushed to the hospital after his fall, Value didn’t accompany him.
“I was not in the right frame of mind to have gone with him,” she defined. “I was frantic. I was stressed. Anxiety. Sad. Just stuff like that, that any normal person would feel.”
Two days after being positioned in a medically-induced coma, Value eliminated Coleman from life assist.
Coleman’s ex-girlfriend, Anna Grey, mentioned Value “was more worried about herself than the person she was calling 911 for.”
Grey additionally questioned why Value let docs take Coleman off life assist after simply two days, saying that Coleman’s needs have been to be stored alive for 2 weeks within the occasion of an incident like that.
Nevertheless, Value countered that declare.
“On the medical directive, he said if there were two or more doctors that stated that he’s not gonna come out of it, then to take him off life support,” she alleged. “There were enough doctors and medical staff that told me his condition and told me he wasn’t gonna get better.”
On the brand new A&E collection, Value mentioned she was “nervous” to listen to the outcomes of her polygraph check.
Throughout the check, former FBI agent Olivo requested if she ever struck Coleman.
Whereas she replied “no,” the findings have been inconclusive.
“I’m not going to say that you passed that test, because you didn’t,” Olivo mentioned.
Value replied, “I would never hurt him in that manner or that sense, because his life was so fragile. Daily life was a struggle for him, and I would never want to hurt him.”
Olivo additionally questioned Value about whether or not she deliberately withheld correct support from Coleman within the aftermath of his fall.
She denied it, however the lie detector check outcomes weren’t conclusive, both.
“That, statistically, raises a little bit of an eyebrow,” Olivo mentioned. “Then again, you’re the same person sitting there who’s still nervous and who’s still a bit distracted.”
He added, “But here’s the way I look at it, this question having to do with you doing everything that you could possibly do for Gary when he fell, when you called 911, is an issue that you’ve had in your mind for 14 years, and it’s still not resolved in your mind.”
Though she failed the polygraph check, Value instructed host Tony Harris that she is at “peace.”
“There is a reason I am not in prison. There is a legit reason for that,” she defined. “It’s because they did a thorough investigation.”
“There’s also a thing called lack of evidence,” Olivo famous. “You say you have nothing to hide. I say you know exactly why you failed this test. Sadly, my professional opinion is the truth is not on your side today.”
Value mentioned she wasn’t shocked. “I figured it wouldn’t be.”
Olivo quipped: “Because you already knew you were gonna fail, and you know why you did.”
“Lie Detector: Truth or Deception” premieres Sunday, July 10 at 9 p.m. on A&E.
