Apparantely it's the Reality TV Moment of the year and it certainly attracted a lot of attention and it's something that I've been asked about a few times. It's the moment from Episode Five where Meat Loaf loses his cool with Gary Busey.
I think that moment was hyped up before the series aired for the sake of the ratings so prior to this people were already looking forward to it in some kind of wierd way, these are the kind of people that thrive on reading and watching celebrities have 'meltdowns'. They find it funny and sometimes I wonder if it makes them feel better about their own lives.
Following the airing of the episode, the media jumped on the bandwagon. Message boards were full of critical comments about Meat and calling him cruel names. It appeared from the episode that Meat was throwing a tantrum because he couldn't find his paints and this is what the media have focused on. They ignored the fact that there were things that happened behind the scenes that could have influenced it and also the fact that Meat Loaf offered an emotional and heartfelt apology which was accepted by Gary Busey. These people who are calling Meat Loaf an evil man don't know him, they're just judging him by what aired that night or what they've read in the newspaper. We all lose our temper from time to time but how many of us are unlucky enough to have it captured on camera, aired on national prime time television and reported in newspapers in other countries? It doesn't mean he's got Bi-Polar Disorder, it doesn't mean he's a horrible person, it just makes him human.