Conor Maynard speaks out on 'traumatic' paternity drama and how public 'failed' him

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00:00i was aware of the situation before um however uh you know i i had no idea that it was going

00:08to go to the press i didn't know that any of that was going to happen i um i you know in my mind it

00:14was like well obviously the natural proceeding would to be a test to to to basically make sure

00:21that everything is 100 certain and then obviously we deal with it accordingly and obviously that's

00:28not the way it went and i think um it was difficult to remain silent especially with

00:36social media trial by social media and you're looking at all this instantly was painted as a

00:42deadbeat dad and that kind of thing and it was all of my comments across all of my social media was

00:45very was very much all about that and as i said instinctively you want to defend yourself you

00:51want to tell your side of the story but i also felt like it wasn't right to speak on it until

00:54i knew the truth myself and i didn't want to force that um you know i i obviously research

01:01paternity tests and that kind of thing and i know that it can be considered dangerous for an

01:04for a child that isn't born yet and also when they're very early in life so obviously i was

01:08kind of just kind of just waiting and and and allowing that decision to come from the other side

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