America's Got Talent season seven contestant Timothy Poe, who won over the judges with his story about turning to country music after a near-death experience with a grenade in Afghanistan, has been caught in a series of lies.
The musician admitted to the New York Post that his war injury "may not have happened exactly like I said it did," claiming that, "I really do not remember a lot of things since the accident. I remember a blast going off by my head and being in Afghanistan and telling one of the sergeants."
Poe has also admitted to lying about his earning the Purple Heart, and admitted that a photo he submitted to America's Got Talent producers was actually another soldier in uniform. He apologizes for passing
off U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Norman Bone's as his own, saying that he never meant to mislead the public for his own personal gain.
Poe also lied to the show about when he began singing. He originally claimed that he didn't start singing until after his war experience, but "I was in a band," he now confesses. "But it was before the accident. And at the time of 'AGT,' when the judges asked, before I could even think about answering, my words had already came out."
Check out his initial audition video below, via NBC:
(H/T Gossip Cop)
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