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Daily Inspiration Quote by Uri Geller

"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil"

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Uri Geller’s genius was never the spoon. It was the straight face. This line plays like a tabloid headline with a magician’s timing: outrageous premise, deadpan delivery, and a punchline that smuggles in a thesis about fame. He’s not defending himself so much as upgrading the mythology around him, turning a lawsuit into proof-of-power folklore. If someone claims your TV appearance can bend metal inside their body, you’ve already won the only case that matters in show business: cultural penetration.

The specific intent is twofold. First, it’s a laugh-getter that reframes a potentially embarrassing legal episode as comedic capital. Second, it’s brand maintenance. Geller’s entire act depended on a soft boundary between performance and paranormal. Skeptics could call him a trickster; believers could call him gifted. This anecdote flatters both camps. It’s absurd enough to read as satire, yet detailed enough (contraceptive coil!) to feel like a “real story,” the currency of talk shows and late-night couches.

The subtext is about how celebrity invites irrational causality. Geller positions himself as a kind of psychic weather system: people’s bodies, choices, and misfortunes become legible as side effects of his presence. There’s also a sly misogynistic undertone common to the era’s entertainment circuit: a woman’s pregnancy becomes the punchline, her claim a prop.

Context matters: Geller rose in a media ecosystem that rewarded spectacle and ambiguity, when television could consecrate oddity into authority. The quote isn’t evidence of telekinesis; it’s evidence of how modern attention bends reality.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Geller, Uri. (2026, January 17). I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-sued-by-a-woman-who-claimed-that-she-became-76720/

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Geller, Uri. "I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-sued-by-a-woman-who-claimed-that-she-became-76720/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-sued-by-a-woman-who-claimed-that-she-became-76720/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Uri Geller (born December 20, 1946) is a Entertainer from Israel.

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