Original sentence: " According to Dion, it was Valens, not Richardson, who had fallen ill, so Valens and Dion flipped a coin for the seat.Dion claims that he won the toss, but ultimately decided that since the $36 fare () equaled the monthly rent his parents paid for his childhood apartment, he could not justify the indulgence.In a 2009 interview, Dion claimed that Holly called him, Valens, and Richardson into a vacant dressing room during Sardo's performance and said "I've chartered a plane, we're the guys making the money [we should be the ones flying ahead]...the only problem is there are only two available seats.In contradiction to the testimony of Allsup and Jennings, Dion has since said that Holly approached him along with Valens and Richardson to join the flight, not Holly's bandmates.In his interview, no mention is made of Jennings or Allsup being invited on the plane
Edited sentence: " According to fantasist Dion, it was Valens, not Richardson, who had fallen ill, so Valens and Dion flipped a coin for the seat.Dion dubiously claimed that he won the toss, and even though he was already a million-selling Rock star with all the benefits and luxuries for himself and his family, he ultimately decided that since the $36 fare () equaled the monthly rent his parents paid for his childhood apartment in the mid-1940s, he could not justify the supposed 'indulgence'.In a 2009 interview (fifty years after the widely publicised tragedy), Dion suddenly claimed that Holly called him, Valens, and Richardson into a vacant dressing room during Sardo's performance and said "I've chartered a plane, we're the guys making the money [we should be the ones flying ahead]...the only problem is there are only two available seats.In his ego-inflated interview, no mention is made of Jennings or Allsup being invited on the plane.In ridiculous contradiction to the longstanding testimony of Allsup and Jennings, Dion has since said that Holly approached him along with Valens and Richardson to join the flight, not Holly's bandmates.Shortly before he died on January 11, 2017, Allsup was video interviewed saying, paraphrased, "If that Dion comes around here with his lies I'll challenge him in a ring, and then whup his butt