CANNES, June 26 -- The version of Alex Cooper that Vanity Fair's forty-plus sources described was not the person who arrived at the Cannes Lions festival Thursday. That version berated staff until they cried, presided over a culture of fear, and stood alongside a co-CEO husband who allegedly made sexually inappropriate comments to employees. The woman who took the stage in the South of France was seven months pregnant, composed, and had a one-sentence message for anyone who had read the magazine's June 12 expose: don't believe it.

"I am extremely proud of what we have built at Unwell," Cooper told the audience at Cannes Lions, according to Deadline. "Don't believe everything that you read on the internet."

Those two sentences were her f...