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I've just done a bunch of googling.
Mostly he's just quoted as saying he didn't charge for the session. The "strongest" quote I could find said it "[was] not a service I ever have or would offer outside of the context of this article", which I guess just means he was dumb enough to be sucked in by the tabloid "journalist" who asked him to try it. ๐ฌ
In the same interview, he was asked for details about how the article misrepresented the events, and he pointed to a 6-year-old [at the time] radio interview that was obviously longer available.
Idk. It's slightly more nuanced than I'd assumed, but I now just think he's weak, a bit thick, and a poor communicator. ๐