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now to a fox exclusive a well-respected
journalist covering the case of farmer
bro martin shkreli puts her life on the
line for love
only to be left with an uncertain future
by the former pharmaceutical executive
now serving
seven years for securities fraud in a
television first christy smyze speaks
out to our senior correspondent
laura ingle who joins us now laura good
to see you hi trace good to see you too
and christy smythe a former journalist
with bloomberg news
made headlines when she went public with
her relationship
with convicted felon martin shkreli in
an article published
last month in l magazine that's created
quite a buzz
the former pharmaceutical executive is
currently serving a
seven-year sentence for securities fraud
and the man once dubbed the most hated
man in america earned that nickname
pharma bro after hiking the price of the
life-saving hiv drug
daraprim by more than 5 thousand percent
and despite his reputation smythe told
me
she not only still loves him but is
still hoping for a future with shkreli
when he gets out he was the villain
everybody hated
christy smythe was one of the reporters
who broke the story of martin shkreli's
arrest in 2015.
she says that over time the two fell in
love
and that shkreli is simply misunderstood
he's just a very very eccentric person
it doesn't play well
in public especially in negative light
he is phenomenally intelligent
and charismatic but also has
no emotional intelligence and very
little common sense and is very awkward
smythe who was married at the time says
her marriage was already having
difficulties
and her attention to shkreli only made
things worse
but she says she didn't cross the line
when it came to covering him
her former employer disagrees in a
statement a bloomberg news spokesperson
said in part
miss mice conduct with regard to mr
shkreli
was not consistent with expectations for
a bloomberg journalist
after i left my job at bloomberg and i
was kind of on the way out with my hus
with my ex-husband um we were planning
to split up
i visited martin in prison
and i just simply told him that i loved
him
and what was his reaction he said that
he loved me too the two
only have one photo together taken on a
visitation day
at a federal prison in pennsylvania
smythe says the two have shared letters
spoken over the phone and emailed and
have talked about building a life
together
he talked about me freezing my eggs and
after you know he suggested that that
could be a possibility
i said okay sure i'll go ahead and try
it i'll look into it
and see about that and i did it and i'm
really glad i did it
did he say the words to you i want to
have children with you
yes but in recent months the
relationship
started to break down the two briefly
stopped speaking but
seem to have patched things up since the
l article was published
as for the negative reactions to her
telling her story
she says she has no regrets what do you
say to people who say
you've been brainwashed he's using you
he's manipulated you
you don't know what you're talking about
you don't know
me and what an incredibly
willful and independent person i have
been since childhood
and you don't know martin martin is not
a brilliant manipulator when you get to
know him
smith says she also had to confront
criticism
about how shkreli treated other female
journalists
even calling him out for some of the
comments he made online
and says she doesn't support any form of
harassment
but says she believed shkreli saw some
of his comments
as justified responses as for what's
next
she says they are figuring things out i
would love
martin to get out i would love him to
start working on something productive
that helps the world and i'd like to
play some sort of role in helping him
get there
that's that's my dream and just last
week a judge denied shkreli's second
request for an early release he is
scheduled
to get out in 2023 now we reached out to
shkreli through his lawyer
to see if he would comment on his
relationship with smythe but his lawyer
ben brofman declined
to discuss their relationship trace yeah
laura ingle who has been covering
courts and cases for the past 25 years
that
was among the most interesting laura
always good to see you thank you thank
you