In 2019, the film was nominated in the documentary category for the WIN Awards, Women's Image Network. It's a very aggressive form of brain cancer. Hearings are expected to begin in 2022. Alexander was working on a documentary about Macchiarini's success in the medical field. But despite his seemingly busy schedule, Alexander said Macchiarini offered to plan their wedding. I mean, and we didn't know what to do. With a purported VIP list of friends and clients that included former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Russian president Vladimir Putin and entertainment icons such as Elton John, their wedding was expected to be one of the biggest events of the year. Claiming he was in demand. Nothing anybody could do for her, and then like so many of Dr. Paolo Macchiarini's patients, they did a google search and found this kind of a magician of a surgeon who said I can help your little girl. [00:42:33] Bob: When Benita comes to her senses, she switches back into investigative reporter mode, and decides to find out the real truth behind Paolo. [00:12:41] Bob: And you went forward with that weekend pushing the feeling aside, right? [00:17:35] Benita: Around this time that my ex-husband, John, passed away, we became romantically involved. I mean it was crazy. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. She reflected on their relationship and wondered how she could've missed all the red flags. "The first thing we did was inform our boss, and then we also informed Paolo Macchiarini's bosses at the university," Corbascio said. The Karolinska Institute commissioned an external investigation into the allegations. After a few days there, she traveled to Macchiarini's home in Barcelona, Spain, with some friends who came along for support. ET. She had already spent good money on her wedding preparations. The emotions of the moment overwhelm her. It was, it was really, really difficult. I didn't, you know, how do you, how do you not ask any questions, but all my friends convinced me, they said, "You know, Benita, you know he has amazing taste. And it was very difficult for us um, with the story because, you know, we had all hoped for one of these happy endings, you know, this was, the hope was to do a two-hour special, and at the end of it, you know, Hannah's home in South Korea, running around the backyard with her, her big sister, and you know, being a happy toddler as, as she should have been all along, and you know, Hannah was the most vibrant little girl. [00:01:28] Benita: I grew up in Australia, and I had an uncle, my mother's brother, who worked for Radio Free Europe. [00:23:44] Bo Lindquist: Paolo was very well-dressed and very careful with his looks. But before the wedding can happen, Benita makes a . They became friends and over time she felt herself falling for him, despite her journalistic integrity impeding the romance. We have somebody who has been brave enough to share something thats already humiliating and devastating. She said that in November 2014, they had planned a trip to California to spend Thanksgiving with her family, "and he had been really stressed in the weeks before, and he had been talking to me for some time about how there were people that were against him, and his 'enemies.'". I, I had just, in that moment I didn't have the information yet, but I just knew he was lying about everything. In need of a lung transplant, doctors arranged to transfer her to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Thats what I have the power to do now. [00:38:44] Benita: I should say this wedding turns into something akin to the wedding of the century. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Journalist Benita Alexander (right) has revealed chilling clues that disclosed her lover and famed surgeon Paolo Macchiarini as a "romance scammer", The two fell for each other when Benita was interviewing Macchiarini for a story, The couple planned a lavish wedding set to take place in 2015 that felt too good to be true after Macchiarini said the Pope would officiate it, Benita decided to hire a private investigator, which led to her discovering her famous surgeon lover was actually facing legal trouble over his innovative techniques, Benita said she left her job of 17 years to marry Macchiarini, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). She was 100% Daddy's Little Girl, and he utterly adored her. And so I thought, okay, maybe its not as crazy as it, as it sounds. As these events were unfolding, Maccharini allowed Lindquist to follow him for a documentary film. I did not think that by pulling that thread, we would completely undo the sweater.". In the next 24 hours, you will receive an email to confirm your subscription to receive emails "He didnt know Pope Francis, he wasnt his personal doctor.". It was eight months later when they became properly engaged after Macchiarini presented her with a $100K ring. This was worldwide. Kind of like being in a fairy tale, you know. And this trip had been planned for a very long time. By what name was He Lied About Everything (2018) officially released in Canada in English? And that frees up Benita to go public about their relationship. TV producer's romance with star surgeon begins against better judgment: Part 1Benita Alexander met Paolo Macchiarini while covering his pioneering work for a. How to tell her, how to get her through this, and how is life going to change for her, and what does this mean for me? In her personal life, she's also looking for a medical miracle, a miracle that, well it wasn't going to come. She was even more stunned when she began to realize that so much of what Macchiarini had told her about his personal and professional life was a lie. I mean most 8-year-olds will change their minds, you know, many times, but I never changed. Emmy Award Winning . And he said, he finally said, "Well, I'm going to go and talk to my contacts at the Vatican." She'd been in the intensive care unit in Turkey for three years, and her health was still deteriorating. . "I was angry as hell. And the two go on a magic carpet ride together. Alexander felt compelled to cancel the wedding, yet while she tried to figure out the extent to which Macchiarini had lied, she said she let him think they would still marry one day. "She had suffered at least two strokes; she had lost much of her vision, so she was partially blind; she couldn't walk," Pinto said. You are leaving AARP.org and going to the website of our trusted provider. Please enable Javascript in your browser and try Some even believed he'd win a Nobel Prize one day, according to author Stuart Ritchie. Documentary producer Benita Alexander thought it was love when her job introduced her to internationally renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. And that's where we met for the first time. But her death was awful. We had been divorced for a couple of years at that point and for three years, and he was diagnosed with glioblastoma which is a very, there's no good kind of cancer, no good kind of brain cancer, but the, you know, the outlook is not good, you know they, they kind of give someone two years at the most. And I literally, I was really like, what? Use tab to navigate through the menu items. He seemed that way in his work as well, but here he is talking to me and spending all this time listening to me and seemed very vested in this little girl that he had never met. Her new podcast "Benita and the Berracas," will feature Benita talking to other women who open up to her about their own love conned stories, along with advice on how to avoid becoming a victim. I said, I just, I can't do this. [00:31:09] Matthew Christopher: Um, a couture wedding gown designer is someone that actually design gowns from beginning to end, whether that's draping, whether that's sketching; couture means it's handmade. And she was Daddy's Little Girl. [00:31:32] Bob: I mean that sounds like a very special process. It was, it was a huge change and a huge change for my daughter. [00:21:08] Bob: Benita is proud of her work and happy with her husband-to-be, excited to put the finishing touches on Hannah's medical miracle story, but before the piece airs, the story takes a dark turn. Since her romance with Paolo imploded in 2015, the brunette beauty has continued working on documentaries and docuseries'. (Pasadena, Calif.) - This Valentine's Day, Investigation Discovery (ID) presents a love story gone wrong with HE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING, the astonishing true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative news producer Benita Alexander, and the brilliant, world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.What started as a picture-perfect dream relationship between two people at the . He has been convicted of research-related crimes in Italy and Sweden. "I put it all in a message. However, while filming with Macchiarini, Alexander's ex-husband, the father of her young daughter, had been diagnosed with brain cancer. [00:09:12] Bob: And so, Benita travels to Boston to meet the miracle worker for herself. My then ex-husband, who I had moved to New York with and the father of our beautiful daughter, was dying of brain cancer. He was listed as one of . He actually brought him home on Christmas Day, and he and I are still in touch. It was kind of romance on steroids. "I went full on into investigator mode as I knew he wouldnt tell me the truth," Benita said. They got married in October 2012. The Love Con: Directed by Star Price. Um, made dinner, and did all this, and then we were discussing and showing fabrications and doing sketching and then like, you know, where were we going to begin? ", "As devastated as I was and as much as I wanted to crawl under the covers and hide and stay there, I knew I couldn't fall apart," she said. If I had a checklist, he, he was everything I would want in a partner, everything you would want in a man. to search for ways to make a difference in your community at If you want to tell somebody's story well, it, it helps if you can really tell it from their perspective. Um, (laugh) I was uh, in my 40s. I want him to look around that courtroom and see the families of the patients whose lives he destroyed, and see my face and at last be forced for whatever few seconds to look us all in the eye and maybe understand what he did," Alexander said. Macchiarini.". It defeats the point, Benita recently said. He, he was supposed to be their last hope. I love some pressure, let's go for it. [00:24:37] Bob: Paolo is a natural subject for a documentary film. Her daughter has thus been the only constant in her life. What did he do this time?" I didn't even, I, I, I stopped in hesitation. Alexander was working on a documentary about Macchiarinis success in the medical field. Star Benita Alexander-Noel See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist 12 User reviews Photos Add photo I don't want you to do anything except find your dresses and just, all you have to do is show up and look beautiful. Alexander was assigned to work on the documentary about Paolo Macchiarini who has considered a pioneer in organ transplant. So I just found him very, I don't want to say intimidating, because intimidating's not the word. Among the high-powered clients who Macchiarini claimed were on this network were the Clintons, the Obamas and even Pope Francis. TV & Film Producer, Director, Writer, Correspondent, Narrator. In 2015, Alexander sent emails to the Karolinska Institute expressing concerns about the acclaimed surgeon. Then, one morning, she read in The New York Times that Macchiarini's colleagues at the Karolinska Institute had accused him of scientific misconduct and filed a complaint with the university. This is totally different. The way he used stem cells with his plastic tracheas would eventually develop into something quite extraordinary where you could use stem cells to target organs or other areas of the body where the, where there was a medical problem. The procedure uses the framework of a plastic tube lined with the patient's stem cells and is intended to help them replicate into a healthy version of the failing organ. In early 1982, shortly before her 16th birthday, Benita returned home from a sleepover to discover that her mother had left the family in the middle of the night. 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