Before Katherine Jackson began the long drive back to California on Wednesday, she appeared on camera and read a statement to ABC News.

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Instead, it got B-I-N-G-O, care of ABC's latest attempt at reality (read: ridiculous) TV.

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Then an ABC producer came in, Maggiolo recalls, and read and translated the document.

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