Hours after he worried America sick into thinking he was in a runaway balloon flying over Colorado, while all the time he was just hiding in the attic, 6-year-old Falcon Henne, aka “Balloon Boy”, told Wolf Blitzer “We did this for the show.”
In this scene, Falcon admits that he heard his parents calling him, but declined to come out of the garage.
At 0:40, he mutters, “We did this for the show.”
This leads father Richard to try and explain what he just said. “Whenever we tell him things like, it’s a bad thing to do, he does go and hide,” he says.
Here is more of the interview. This is excruciating to watch.
