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Below in our homepage video player, Lance Armstrong tells Oprah Winfrey that it wouldn’t have been possible to win the Tour de France seven times without doping. The entire Oprah interview is fascinating. The bottom line is that this guy comes off like a sociopath. I do wonder what all the celebrities who gathered around him during his heyday and championed him — people like Robin Williams and Matthew McConnaughey, to say nothing of Sheryl Crow– are thinking right now. Anyway, it’s a sad story of a terrible hoax that was perpetrated on the public, on the people around Armstrong, the cyclists, etc. It’s a miserable way for people around the world to view an American athlete who was held out as a hero.

Roger Friedman

Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News. Friedman previously wrote the Intelligencer column at New York Magazine, He writes for Parade magazine and has written for Details, Vogue, the New York Times, Post, and Daily News and many other publications. He is the writer and co-producer of a film about R&B Music called “Only the Strong Survive,” which was released by Miramax in 2003 and was a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals.