A newly released video shows the mother of the 6-year-old boy purported to be in a runaway balloon finally acknowledging to authorities it was all a hoax, contrary to her husband's repeated public denials just before reporting to jail. The video interviews obtained by the Fort Collins Coloradoan Friday show Mayumi Heene telling sheriff's officials that the Oct. 15 event was a hoax that she and her husband orchestrated to gain notoriety and land a reality TV show. “We tried working so hard to make money to survive. It's a shame to come up with this idea,” Mayumi Heene told a Larimer County Sheriff's investigator during an interview days after the flight televised worldwide. “This was something that could take me, take us to the point we wanted to be at.” The boy, Falcon, was hiding at home during the balloon's five
