Such denials are usually a prelude to hospitalization, recovery, and a tearful interview with Oprah, Barbara, or Diane.

Moments later at the postgame interview, he gave a tearful interview with an NBC Sports correspondent, where he admitted his future was still questionable.

In a tearful interview in the house she shares with two other mothers and their children here, she credited Cuba with keeping him alive.

Losing 'His Whole Life' "There's got to be some court that wants to protect him," Richard's adoptive mother said on Monday in a tearful interview.

There were the tearful interviews with her mother, the only witness, who was sure the kidnappers were Azerbaijani.

Audiences are surely drawn to tearful interviews with worried spouses and children.

"I just want to see my brother," said the sister, Yang Jianhua, 47, in a tearful interview.

The most prominent person on the list is Chai Ling, a 23-year-old psychology student whose tearful interviews earned her a measure of fame abroad.

Beaten by the police, he returned the next day, his head bandaged and his arm in a sling, to conduct a tearful interview on national television.

At another, she spoke of a tearful interview she had Sunday with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News.