Patrick Clancy broke his silence in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, pushing back against conspiracy theories that his attorney has previously called “outright falsehoods.”

“It’s deeply harmful to the legacy of my children. It is a huge distraction from what really matters here, which is perinatal mental health. And it’s done real harm to real people, myself included but also others,” Patrick Clancy said during the broadcast, which marked the first televised interview he’s done since a jury deadlocked in Lindsay Clancy’s trial earlier this month.

Patrick Clancy was joined in the interview by his new wife Rachel Danis, who has also called out “twisted” narratives that have spread surrounding their relationship.

Lindsay Clancy’s defense team did not contest that she killed her three children, though they did argue that she should not be held criminally responsible since she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors alleged that she had deliberately committed the killings.

“Even though Lindsay Clancy was on trial this past month…her ex-husband Patrick Clancy has become the center of internet conspiracy theories, with thousands of people on social media theorizing that he actually killed the children and made Lindsay Clancy believe she did,” HuffPost’s Paige Skinner previously reported.

“It’s painful to see. And it makes it difficult to be in public and it’s possible that some of those people after seeing lie after lie after lie, they start to believe it and that’s what we’re left with,” Clancy added during the interview.

Howard Cooper, Patrick Clancy’s attorney, has condemned the “relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign” against his client and called for the “spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods” to stop.

Patrick Clancy also spoke about grieving his children’s deaths and addressed how his demeanor was perceived by some observers during testimony in Lindsay Clancy’s trial.

“I went to a back room, and I started having this massive traumatic panic attack,” Clancy said of how he was feeling shortly before they played the 911 call in court. “My heart was pounding. And they put me in an ambulance. They offered me some medication, but I said, ’I― I don’t want it, ‘cause I want to go back and I want to finish this so I can be done with this.’ And I went back and I finished the testimony.”

Patrick Clancy said he’s reached out to experts on postpartum health as he’s sought to process what took place.

The next court hearing in Lindsay Clancy’s case is September 29, and prosecutors have yet to reveal if they intend to pursue a retrial.

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