To clarify, this wasn’t just “I told a story about a nebulous girl I went to school with and people connected it with someone.” He made that connection himself. From the original interview in The New Yorker.
A source with knowledge of the production said that, during the show’s Off Broadway run, Minhaj had used a real picture of the woman and her partner, with their faces blurred, projected behind him as he told the story.
So, he was clearly talking (lying) about a specific person and failed to disguise that… if he was really trying.
To clarify, this wasn’t just “I told a story about a nebulous girl I went to school with and people connected it with someone.” He made that connection himself. From the original interview in The New Yorker.
So, he was clearly talking (lying) about a specific person and failed to disguise that… if he was really trying.