Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino said video aired Wednesday of a police interview with a woman at the heart of sex and extortion scandal surrounding Pitino revived a ?total fabrication of the truth,? as reported by the Associated Press.

Against his lawyer?s advice, Pitino said he felt he needed to speak out.

?Everything that?s been printed, everything that?s been reported, everything that?s been breaking in the news on the day Ted Kennedy died is 100 percent a lie, a lie,? Pitino said in a hastily called news conference. ?All of this has been a lie, a total fabrication of the truth.?