connell: they seem like, you know, the most unlikely duo, yet christy smythe, who's a former journalistnd thing by martin shkreli, also known as the pharma bro. >> yeah, christy smythe certainly made headlines in an article published last are month in elle magazine that was all the buzz. and in her first tv interview with us, she tells us she still loves him and hopes she'll have a future with him. >> he was the villain everybody hated. >> reporter: christy smythe was one of the appropriators who broke the -- appropriators who broke the story of martin shkreli's arrest in 2015. she says shkreli is simply misunderstood. smythe, who was married at the time, says her marriage was already having difficulties, and her attention to shkreli only made things worse. but she says she didn't cross the line when it came to covering him. her former employer disagrees. in a statement, a bloomberg news spokesperson says in part: this conduct was not consistent with expectations for a bloomberg journalist. >> after i left my job at bloomberg and i was kind of on the way out with my husband -- my ex-hus

. >> yes, christy smythe went public with her relationship in an article in "elle" magazine that createdntence for security fraud. he was dubbed the most hated man in america earned the name of pharma bro after hiking the price of a hiv drug by 5,000 percent. she told me that she still loves him and still hoping for a future with shkreli when he gets out. >> he was the villain that everybody hated. >> christy smythe was one of the reporters that broke the story of martin's arrest. over time, the two fell in love and that shkreli is misunderstood. >> he's just a very eccentric person. it doesn't play well in public, especially in negative light. he's phenomenally intelligent and charismatic and also has no emotional intelligence and very little comment sense. >> smythe says she didn't cross the line when it came to covering him. her former employer disagrees. in a statement, a bloomberg news spokesman said that mrs. smythe's conduct with regard to mr. shkreli was not consistent with expectations for a bloomberg journalist. >> after i left my job at bloomberg and on the way out with my ex-