DM:Me and Trent both.
GS:Is he a good driver?
TM:Trav is good at a lot of things, driving being one of them.
GS:You’re proud of him.
TM:We’re proud of both our kids.
GS:Has it been hard to shield them from the press?
DM:Yes. Some people don’t have limits, even with kids.
GS:There’s been a lot of headlines centering around your kids lately. Especially the birthday party you recently had for your son.
DM:You’re really going for all the dirt, Emily.
GS:I’m asking what the people want to know.
TM:We had a situation not long ago with a woman approaching our daughter, trying to take advantage of her.
GS:How?
TM:She tried to tell Andi she was her mother.
GS:That’s a serious allegation. And potentially very harmful to a child.
DM:No shit.
GS:Do your children know they’re adopted?
TM:Yes, we’ve been open about it from the very beginning.
GS:Do they ever ask about their birth mother?
TM:No.
GS:No? Why not?
DM:She’s dead.
GS:Oh. I wasn’t aware. I’m sorry to hear about that. Do your children know this as well?
TM:Yes, they’ve always known. It’s justsomething we haven’t spoken about in the press because our children have the right to privacy. Just because we’re in the spotlight doesn’t mean they have to be.
GS:These recent headlines must be upsetting for you.
DM:Of course they are. People are getting bold—too bold—and approaching them. It shouldn’t have to be said, but I’d like to remind the press and general public that our children are off-limits.
GS:Can you tell us what happened? From the perspective of a parent, not a headline.
TM:We’d been getting letters for three months from a woman claiming to be our children’s birth mother, which we ignored in an attempt to not escalate the situation. We had no reason to believe she would approach our kids.
GS:But she did.
