"I can assure you most of the things you've heard aren't true. Except for the fact that I recently escaped prison."

If the news was reporting anything accurately, it was that. Because he did.

"But I'm not the criminal they say I am. I was framed for a crime that I didn't commit."

There's a bitterness in his tone, but also a bit of desperation. It's his first time that he's admitting to all of this and he's hopeful that she'll believe him.