Speaking exclusively with CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh this morning, the Boston bombing suspects’ mother Zubeidat Tsarnaev revealed that she is unsure what to make of their sons’ alleged killing spree, and that she believes the entire ordeal was staged like a “really big play” with paint being used as fake blood.

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“American officials say your sons murdered three people and injured over a hundred and they deliberately planted bombs in a civilian area and detonated them and then went on the run shooting people,” Walsh explained to the Tsarnaev mother.

“You’ve seen the pictures,” he said as she seemingly shook her head in denial. “There are people in Boston who want to know why and they believe they did this, they believe that,” Walsh pressed.

Her response indicated a belief that the bombings were staged:

“You know, I saw a very, very interesting video last night that the marathon was something like a really big play. There is, like, paint instead of blood, like it is made-up something.”

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return, Walsh challenged her: “You really believe that? I know it’s hard for you to believe what the American officials are saying, but do you believe the whole thing was a show? Why would it be a show?”

“That’s what I want to know,” she concluded, “because everybody’s talking about it that this is a show, that’s what I want to know.”

Watch the exchange below, via CNN:

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