Carrie Prejean Sex Tape: Was She Only 17?

Carrie Prejean openly confirmed that it was indeed her in the solo sex tape used by Miss California USA attorneys as leverage against her in the just settled discrimination lawsuit. She told Sean Hannity Monday evening, "It's embarrassing, and it's humiliating to be talking about this of national TV." But that somehow didn't stopped her from talking about "the biggest mistake of [her] life." She was more assertive by Tuesday morning on the "Today" show, stating that there was a "campaign to silence [her]."

And she just kept talking, blatantly plugging her new book, which hit the book stores Monday. Prejean told Meredith Vieira of the "Today" show, "They tried to embarrass me. The tried to humiliate me. They tried to attack me. And I'm still standing."

Still Standing, interestingly enough, is the name of her book. Subtitled The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks, the book is Carrie Prejean's autobiographical account of her "ordeal" since her verbal blunder at the Miss USA Pageant in April. Being the champion of the religious Right and the social conservatives, the book no doubt leaves out her excursion into making sex tapes.

But she was only 17, she remonstrates. "I was all by myself," she told Hannity. "I was a teenager at the time, and never did I ever think it would come out. But it was bad judgment." She also told Sean Hannity that she made it to send to her boyfriend at the time.

Where have we heard the "I was only 17" argument before... That's right. When Carrie Prejean was battling the Miss California USA organization to keep her crown (before Donald Trump's decision to let her keep the crown and before she later had the Miss California title taken from her for breach of contract), some topless photos became part of that organization's attempts to oust her. She said they were taken when she was 17, arguing that since she was underage, it was illegal to have and/or disseminate the photo(s). However, it was later discovered that they were not taken when she was a teen. They were taken after her breast augmentation surgery, which occurred in January of this year. She was 21 at the time.

So was she 17 in the sex tape, which means that the sex tape itself would be illegal to obtain, own, or disseminate?

Should the public believe the former Miss California this go-round? The falsehoods the 22-year-old has uttered over the past few months are numerous, making her credibility nearly nonexistent. And do we believe that she is even slightly embarrassed and/or humiliated by having to talk about the sex tape on national television? Who is forcing her to do such a thing? Where is the pressure coming from that prompts her to incessantly talk on national television about how embarrassing and humiliating it is to talk about the sex tape on national television? Her book publisher? Her publicist?

Her need for attention and fame?

Her book, Still Standing, purports to be an "untold story" of gossip and attacks she's suffered as a public figure. But the "untold story" seems to be about a continuing verbal pathology concerning herself, her actions, and her life. It seems that her position in the title of her book should be altered to Still Lying: The Story of My Fight Against The Truth, Reality, And Public Perception.

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Sources:

"Today," NBC Television (via NBCLosAngeles.com)
"Hannity," Fox New Television