When ‘SoHo Karen’ Miya Ponsetto spoke to Gayle King just hours before he was arrested on Thursday, Ventura County resident flickered an accessory rarely seen in a CBS This Morning interview. : a black ball gown with the word ‘Daddy’.
It turns out that the only person Ponsetto wanted in the hat was Ponsetto himself.
“The hat was definitely not chosen by me,” 22-year-old lawyer Sharen H. Ghatan told the Daily Beast. ‘My office gave her advice on what to wear. We asked her to put on professional clothes. When she came to the interview, I told her the baseball cap would not be something we could use in the interview. One because of the lighting, two because of the logo. She was very challenging and insisted that she wear it. ‘
Ghatan said she asked her client “specifically” to take off the hat before the interview.
The 22-year-old woman captured on camera allegedly physically assaulted a 14-year-old Black teenager and falsely accused him of stealing her phone was arrested in California.
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“She said it’s her story, it’s her hat and she wants to wear it,” the lawyer said. “She’s a very challenging customer.”
King noted that Ghatan had encouraged her client to remove the hat when she spoke to her fellow anchors after the promotion aired Friday. The full interview will be broadcast on Monday.
Ponsetto earned the nickname “SoHo Karen” when she physically assaulted a 14-year-old black boy in a New York hotel. falsely accuse him stealing from her cell phone. Her lawyer said the attack was motivated by anxiety, not racism, as alleged. Ponsetto was in town to visit her father for Christmas.
It appears that the phone was left in a driving situation.
Ponsetto was arrested in California on Thursday night after New York police detectives flew across the country to interrogate her. The arrest follows days of intense media coverage over the fracas at the hotel and the demands of the teenager’s family and activists that she face criminal charges.
TMZ reported Friday that Ponsetto is charged with four offenses related to the incident: attempted robbery, endangering the welfare of a child, attempted grand robbery and attempted assault. She is a resident of Piru and will remain in custody in Ventura County until she is extradited to New York.
Ghatan told Daily Beast she had to cancel several national interviews after the first one was such a train wreck. “Miya did not understand the seriousness of her circumstances. She expressly rejected advice and became sly,” she said.
“She’s just not doing well. I’m not a psychiatrist. “She’s not doing well, that’s all I can say,” the lawyer told the outlet, noting that she was not sure if she would continue to represent Ponsetto. She needs help, and that’s not the type of help I can do. give. ”
Ponsetto was previously arrested twice on the basis of DUI.
During the ‘CBS This Morning’ interview, Ponsetto admitted to King that she ‘could have approached the situation differently … or maybe not shouted at him like that and made him feel … in a kind of inferior way and him made me feel like I hurt his feelings because that’s not my intention. ‘
Friday’s preview of the interview went viral for a particularly cruel erasure in which Ponsetto King interrupted: “Okay, Gayle! Enough,” she said, dismissing the veteran anchor with a wave of her hand. The moment spurred Ghatan, who was sitting next to Ponsetto. , to instruct her client to “stop.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.