As we mentioned last month, Jerry Lewis was busted after an unloaded gun was found in his carry-on baggage at the airport in Las Vegas.
At first, his manager said it was just a “fun gun”, basically a show prop, and that Lewis didn’t recall it being in there.
Lewis also stated that other people in his family had used the bag.
Now Jerry boy is changing his story!
He says the gun found was a gift from an engraver following his annual telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Lewis says, “Oh, I had a gun in my carrying case, which was given to me by a marvelous, marvelous engraver. Last year, at the telethon of ’07, he presented me with this gorgeous gift. He presented it to me in the telethon office in ’07. I put it in that traveling case, and I hadn’t traveled since that telethon ’til that day.”
He said the gun had been sitting in his office for a year in an unused traveling case.
Lewis added, “The case was sitting dormant in my office.”
That’s funny. We thought he said other family members had been using that bag in the mean time?
Inneresting.
As for his manager, she says there was indeed a hollowed-out prop gun that Lewis sometimes twirls during his show in his baggage, but it was apparently mixed in there with the real handgun given as a gift.
Riiiight.
She then added that she didn’t know previously about the gift and that she wasn’t sure which gun, the real or prop one, was the one confiscated by police.
But, Las Vegas policeman Bill Cassell said last month that if the gun was just a prop, “it wouldn’t be a weapon and we couldn’t cite him for carrying a weapon.”
Poor Jerry. Just blame it on senility!
[Image via WENN.]
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