Thinking about this even more... whether someone is spreading rumors or not, why is this mother blaming others rather than taking issue with her own daughter's actions?

Clearly her daughter is not allowed to use such language. Whether the daughter talks like that privately or not, she knows better than to speak that way in front of her mother or in public. The fact that she lost her composure at a public event enough to either utter that word or to come close to it (or does the mother think that her daughter was telling the audience to be quiet AFTER she "messed up"?) shows maybe a lack of judgement or maybe even bad sportsmanship.

The mother should be more concerned with that than whether or not she did or did not utter a specific word... let alone whether or not OTHERS are saying she said that word.

Sounds like the mother is in severe denial. And needs to confront others to prevent her own little fantasy world from collapsing.

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