Message from ROCWEB (The Official Renee O'Connor Fan Club) "That Dog Won't Hunt" ROC fans please read this carefully..... We dragged Sandra Wilson (aka MommaROC) out of her spring marathon gardening session to confirm our worst suspicions about the rather odd interview that was posted on Mania this past week with Reneé. Folks, this interview was either vastly embellished, or it's complete fiction. The obvious inaccuracies in this interview were: 1) Reneé has NEVER wanted to be a construction worker, or fantasized about "dead loads". 2) Reneé does not tell dirty jokes - particularly in an interview situation with people she barely knows. 3) Reneé is not likely to say things like: "blame the writers", "they were sufficiently impressed with my acting abilities", "all hell breaks loose", or "I don't think Gabrielle minds his crush on her so much as some of the lesbians I have talked to". There were several other rather bizarre statements, but suffice it to say that even if she were high as a kite on canned peas, Reneé would not utter some of the comments that she is credited with in this article. Other evidence of bogus information, or at minimum, poor journalist fact checking was the reference to MommaROC's e-mail address being MommaROC@aol.com. As most of you know, all the on-line Fan Club correspondence is handled entirely by Rocweb - who does have AOL. However Sandra Wilson does NOT have an AOL account - and neither does Renee. (Which obviously makes checking the AOL Message boards difficult for someone like Reneé to do). Sandra receives and answers all of the fan club, or personal e-mail inquiries to her or Reneé through either Rocweb@aol.com or Rocmailer@aol.com. The person answering mail at the MommaROC@aol.com address, (and they are), is clearly impersonating Sandra Wilson. Not only do we consider this to be a pathetically reprehensible thing to do, considering the many kindness' that Sandra has shown the fans - but it's also downright dishonest. We have contacted Mania and requested their cooperation with getting this mystery fully resolved. However, in the meantime, please help us spread the word that this dog of an article, and that bogus AOL address - just won't hunt. Rocweb (AKA The ROC Fan Club) -- Second message received from ROCWEB: Response from Mania.Com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is with our sincerest regret that we inform you that we were the victims of an apparent interview fraud. We would appreciate if you would let your readers know that this is being handled and the article has been taken down and please express our sincerest apologies to Ms. O'Connor, her family and fans. Although we have not been able to identify how the individual committing this fraud was able to find out we had contacted your official fan site regarding possible contact with Sandra Wilson, we do believe the interview to have been fraudulent. We have tracked down who MommaROC@aol.com is and our lawyers will be pursuing every available legal recourse available to us. We would like to inform your readers in no uncertain terms that MommaROC@aol.com is definitely not Sandra Wilson and as far as we've been able to determine thus far, has no connection with Ms. O'Connor's family at all. We will keep you posted as legal developments occur. Sincerely, Valarie Thorpe Mania Editor in Chief --