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Daily Inspiration Quote by Farrah Fawcett

"Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect"

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Paranoia, celebrity, and damage control collide in Farrah Fawcett's blunt little two-step: confirm the nightmare, then correct the cast list. "Have I been wiretapped? Yes" lands like a tabloid headline she’s choosing to own before it owns her. It’s a hard, declarative sentence that refuses the coyness expected of actresses asked about scandal. Then she pivots: "But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect". That "but" is the whole strategy. She’s not denying surveillance; she’s renegotiating the story’s authorship and, crucially, the villain.

The intent reads as tactical truth-telling. By conceding the core fact, she buys credibility, then uses that credibility to contest the more reputationally lethal detail: attribution. In celebrity culture, the specifics matter less as evidence than as narrative weaponry. Being wiretapped is an invasion; being wiretapped by a named person implies motive, betrayal, and a moral arc. Fawcett’s correction tries to sever that arc before it calcifies.

The subtext is also a quiet indictment of the media ecosystem that turns private violation into public sport. "They said" gestures at a faceless chorus of reporters, insiders, and gossip pipelines that treat accuracy as optional if the story moves. The line captures a particular late-20th-century celebrity condition: your life is already being monitored, and your only real power is to edit the rumor in real time. It’s not innocence she’s asserting; it’s control over which version of the intrusion survives.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Fawcett, Farrah. (2026, January 17). Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/have-i-been-wiretapped-yes-but-who-they-said-53262/

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Fawcett, Farrah. "Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/have-i-been-wiretapped-yes-but-who-they-said-53262/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/have-i-been-wiretapped-yes-but-who-they-said-53262/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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Farrah Fawcett (February 2, 1947 - June 25, 2009) was a Actress from USA.

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