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Daily Inspiration Quote by Kato Kaelin

"If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true"

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It sounds like an innocent offer of transparency, but it’s really a small act of guerrilla PR from a man who learned, in real time, how television turns people into plot devices. Kato Kaelin wasn’t just adjacent to fame; he was a character manufactured by it during the O.J. Simpson circus, when talk shows and tabloids treated “truth” as a performance category. This line tries to wrestle back a little authorship: don’t let the screen narrate me, let me narrate me.

The phrasing is key. “If there’s something that you hear on TV” frames mass media as rumor with better lighting. “About me” is the whole wound in two words: he’s the subject, but rarely the speaker. Then comes the disarming intimacy of “just call me.” Not “ask my publicist,” not “read the statement” - call. It’s a pitch for direct connection, an old-school human workaround to a system that profits from distortion. Kaelin knows the irony: most people can’t call him. That’s the point. The line sells accessibility as credibility, leveraging a fantasy of personal proximity that celebrity culture runs on.

“I’ll tell you if it’s true” doesn’t promise truth itself; it promises his version of it. That’s a subtle concession that the real conflict isn’t facts vs. lies, it’s control of the story. In a media environment built to launder speculation into certainty, his intent is less moral than tactical: replace broadcast gossip with a relationship, even an imaginary one, where he gets to be a person instead of a punchline.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Kaelin, Kato. (2026, January 18). If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-theres-something-that-you-hear-on-tv-about-me-4583/

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Kaelin, Kato. "If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-theres-something-that-you-hear-on-tv-about-me-4583/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-theres-something-that-you-hear-on-tv-about-me-4583/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Kato Kaelin (born March 9, 1959) is a Celebrity from USA.

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