Kevin O'Leary's Boat Collision [2]

People ask me all the time, "Why are you so tough? Did you learn that?" I said, "No, it's just dealing with the truth all the time." In business, you've got to deal with the truth.

You can't make up stuff.

It just happens to you.

Reality always comes and bites you in the heinie, so why not deal with it from day one?

We left off on Saturday, August 24th of 2019, the night that Kevin and Linda O'Leary took their Cobalt water ski boat across Lake Joseph to attend a dinner party hosted by friends.

Later that evening at about 11:25 PM, security footage showed them leaving to return home, with Linda driving the boat, her controversial businessman and reality TV star husband, Kevin O'Leary, sitting beside her, and their family friend Allison in the back seat.

It was a moonless night, a lake in complete darkness according to Kevin O'Leary's testimony.

They couldn't see anything as they were planing across the lake at speed, the boat's hull lifting partly out of the water.

Without warning, they hit something that he described as completely invisible.

Two passengers on the other boat suffered devastating fatal injuries.

Retired accountant Gary Poltash died on the dock, and mother of three Suzanne Brito passed away two days later.

In this episode, we go inside what happened at the O'Leary cottage in the minutes and hours after the crash, the head-scratching moments and baffling decisions that would later become central to a courtroom battle.

The court heard that Linda O'Leary was a fully licensed pleasure craft operator and the boating guru of the family, but was she operating the vessel carelessly that night? Was she impaired? Was she traveling too fast in the darkness? And what about the other boat, the one owned by Dr.

Irv Edwards, carrying 12 stargazing passengers? Was that boat really just floating on the lake with no lights on at all? We'll continue to unravel the evidence and reconstruct the events of that night to answer the questions, who was ultimately responsible for this tragic collision, and why have conspiracy theories persisted long after the case was legally closed? First, we go back to that night in the summer of 2019.