More on Kim Delaney

[monmouth]

Kim Delaney was escorted off stage Thursday night after stumbling through a speech at an event honoring former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

The Army Wives star approached the podium at the Liberty Medal Award presentation in her hometown of Philadelphia. As she began her speech, she interrupted herself to turn to the side and say "This is my job," apparently to someone waiting in the wings. She then launched into a halting, perplexing speech about how she's served in the active military, seen injured soldiers come home and attended military funerals — except she hasn't.

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"I do that as a job. It's make-believe. I have the luxury to do all of this on a television show," she said, while the crowd grew visibly uncomfortable as Delaney continued. The actress was reportedly escorted off stage .


According to a local CBS affiliate, the teleprompter was broken and Delaney had to wing the whole thing. Calls and emails to her rep were not immediately returned.


http://tv.yahoo.com/news/video-kim-delaney-stumbles-speech-escorted-off-stage-183800117.html

[Taverner]

1. W.T.F.?

[monmouth]

4. Under the influence of something..alcohol/drugs ..n/t

[Raine]

2. I must have missed something, I don't get

this. :shrug:

[monmouth]

3. According to the comments and a previous OP, she has alcohol problems...n/t

[undeterred]

5. She did not seem impaired on The View this morning.

But I didn't know the character she played on All My Children and I didn't know about this incident.

[monmouth]

6. Maybe she slept it off. The incident happened Thursday night...n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Just watched the video...you can see her struggling to read the teleprompter...I believe the

CBS explanation. :)

[pacalo]

8. Ewww...that was painful to watch.

[frazzled]

9. It sounded to me as if she was reading Gates's words ...

off the broken teleprompter. Knew it was wrong, whence the confused and hesitating performance, then tried to launch into what was supposed to be her speech, got even more confused.

I don't have an opinion here, but how embarrassing for everyone, from staff to audience to the actress.

[monmouth]

10. I hope you're right..It's a good explanation..n/t