Claims made that Randy and Evi Quaid are suffering from 'rare disorder'

By April MacIntyre Nov 2, 2010, 19:36 GMT

The B.S. meter is off the charts today in celebrity news.

After the Lovato-bully piece, we now have the check-skipping squatting Quaids whose "people" are crafting a crazy round of media plants, much like the famous Twinkie defense in the Dan White murder trial from the days of yore, to explain their behaviors.

The Quaids told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview that they believe the 'Star Whackers" group is responsible for the deaths of actors Health Ledger and David Carradine and setting up Mel Gibson's arrest.

Now ABC is publishing the opinions of "psychological experts" who point the finger at rare psychiatric syndrome possibly afflicting the Quaids.

Not to be confused with Compulsive lying disorder, the couple may have something else: "To me, it really does sound like folie a deux syndrome," said Michelle Golland, a Hollywood-based clinical psychologist.

Folie a deux syndrome is characterized by delusional beliefs that are shared between two people who are closely related. It's also known as shared psychotic disorder. In some cases, the syndrome involves more than two people sharing delusions.

ABC claims Randy Quaid's path to off-kilter paranoia-ville began "around 2008, after he was banned for life from the Actors Equity Association, the professional stage actors union, for reportedly abusive and inappropriate behavior during rehearsals and performances of the play 'Lone Star.'"

His marriage to Evi Quaid began in 1989, the same year he turned in a performance in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.