Matt and I finished our assignment several days later in New Orleans and came home to Austin. It was beamed on TV screens nationwide, on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and in commercials for the American Red Cross. Little did any of us know that in the next few days, the photograph would be reproduced on the pages of newspapers and Web sites across the country, including USA Today and. The two soon disappeared into a crowd of desperate evacuees, and we never saw them in New Orleans again. A single tear trickled down her dusty face. Matt took photographs of Dixon, then 43, cradling her daughter, gently resting her face against the girl’s head. We will make it,” I heard her tell her daughter, a quote I used in my report the next day in the American-Statesman. ” Regardless of what this looks like, this isn’t the end. She and Emily fled in a family-owned boat, drove it to an interstate on-ramp and waited for a helicopter to lift them away. She told me that she had trusted the safety of her home in the Gentilly neighborhood and had gotten a top-of-the-line generator, dozens of one-gallon water bottles and enough food to last for weeks.Īs floodwater poured inside from the broken Lake Pontchartrain levees, she realized her mistake. 31, 2005 - I briefly interviewed her under an overpass near the intersection of Interstate 10 and Causeway Boulevard, just a few miles west of downtown New Orleans. With the 10-year anniversary of Katrina approaching, my mind returned to many of the people Matt and I met during our week of coverage there, beginning with us riding out the storm in a bunker of The Times-Picayune.ĭixon is one of the people I’ve thought of most, so I decided to try to find her. So this is the time I want to set things straight.I’ve spent the decade since the storm visiting the New Orleans area several times a year, proudly watching its rebound and rebirth. "One of my close family friends, mayroon kaming usapan that after a certain point that I will reveal my story. In fact, nakalimutan ko all about it until recently," she added.Īlice said that a close friend advised her to finally put an end to the urband legend, which is why she spoke up. That's one of my reasons why hindi ako nagkomento roon. "In my defense, even before kahit ngayon 'pag mayroong hindi totoong rumor, naniniwala akong hindi ko kailangang patulan. But I dismissed it and went on with my business," Alice said. Siguro they wanted to ask me if I made these comments and accusations. "One day, or one morning my secretary told me na tumawag ang isang Robinsons representative. Since then, the incident started an urban legend that a "taong ahas," who was allegedly the twin brother of Robina Gokongwei, the daughter of mall owner John Gokongwei, was in the mall. Siguro kasi, I was just being funny? I was trying to get a laugh sa mga kasamahan ko? I was being young and silly." "Now, I don't really know kung bakit ko iyon ginawa. Natatandaan ko nga may nag-uusyoso sa labas, and for some reason while I was inside the bathroom, I said, 'Tuklaw, tuklaw'," Alice said. "They directed me to the bathroom sa labas ng department store on the fourth floor para magpalit ng damit. It can be recalled that the urban legend came after a movie shoot in the mall in the 1980s. Those things are all not true," she added. "Hindi din naman ako nabayaran ng 850 million, at hindi rin nangyari iyong na-cut iyong pagsasalita ko sa isang TV show when I was trying to explain myself. Hindi naman ako tumakbo sa corridor palabas papunta sa hotel," the actress narrated. Kunwari, hindi naman ako nahulog sa trap door. Nothing really happened in the way the urban legend or the myth dictates. In her latest vlog on her YouTube channel, Alice said the urban legend was not true at all. MANILA, Philippines - Actress Alice Dixson finally revealed the story behind the "taong ahas" urban legend that plagued the fitting rooms of Robinsons Galleria, a mall in Ortigas Center, Quezon City.
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