Jason Russell, the creator of the Invisible Children documentary Kony 2012, recently sat down with Oprah for an in-depth interview. Russell explained why he stripped naked and ran down a street screaming obscenities and laying down in traffic.
“Slamming my hands as hard as I can on the ground — like, I don’t know who that was,” said Russell. “I look at that video and I think how sad for him. It’s hard to explain,” said Russell, who added that he “had an out of body experience.”
Russell, who told Oprah he is not gay, said he remembered bits and pieces of that day. He denied using drugs, although it’s obvious that drug use (and/or mental illness) played some part in his temporary psychosis.
The incident happened just days after the Kony 2012 Invisible Children video went viral online with the help of clueless celebrities such as Rihanna.
Russell filmed the documentary in Uganda and the United States to draw attention to Joseph Kony, the murderous Ugandan leader of a guerilla group that supposedly utilized child soldiers and child sex slaves.
But almost immediately after the film went viral, critics slammed the documentary as a hoax and mostly fiction. They pointed to the fact that none of the child soldiers or “sex slaves” ever came forward after all these years to report the abuse they allegedly experienced at the hands of Kony.
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