Finally speaking out in his own defense, John F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the quarrel he had with his girlfriend while paparazzi shutters whirred.
Talking on Howard Stern's radio show, the 35-year-old bachelor refused to say whether he plans to marry Calvin Klein publicist Carolyn Bessette, and he denied rumors she's pregnant.Kennedy blamed "media hysteria" for blowing it out of proportion.
"(Of) all the dumb things that you could argue about, it was some silly argument," he said.
The fight in a New York City park was widely reported last week after photographs appeared in a tabloid newspaper. A 20-minute videotape of the argument was played on television.
It shows the couple eating, walking, talking, yelling, pouting, crying and ultimately making up. It ends with Bessette, 28, stopping to ask a passer-by for a cigarette.