Columnist: Pistorius Took Acting Class Before Trial

Has Oscar Pistorius' sobbing and vomiting in court all been an act? That's what a former South African columnist is alleging, to vehement denials from the runner's media rep. Jani Allan writes on her blog that Pistorius took acting classes from a friend ahead of his emotional trial, Good Morning America reports. "I have it from a reliable source that you are taking acting lessons for your days in court. Your coach has an impossible task," she says on her website in an open letter, via AFP.

Pistorius' media manager says the idea of "any form of emotional coaching" is "totally devoid of any truth." Adds Anneliese Burgess in a statement: "This type of comment makes a mockery of the enormous human tragedy involving the Steenkamp family and our client and his family." The columnist "has never met Oscar Pistorius and any knowledge she professes to have of our client can only be described as fictitious," Burgess says. (More Oscar Pistorius stories.)