An ex-neighbor who was a neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday, disputed his version of events surrounding an argument between neighbors that resulted in the lowering of an upside down US flag over the property of his in Virginia according to a report that says his version of events is incorrect.

“At best, he’s mistaken, but at worst, he’s just outright lying,” Emily Baden told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront” in her first TV interview after the flag incident became national news. “Even even if there was an acceptable excuse to say they were in a conflict with a neighbor which led them to raise the flag this timeline disproves the claim. It doesn’t make sense.”

Baden is now a key actor in the story of two flags that have been seen at Alito’s homes the upside-down US flag flying at his house in Virginia in early 2021, and the “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey home last summer. Alito has claimed that the flag he erected in Virginia was a reaction to the “very nasty neighborhood dispute,” that was likely to involve Baden.

Alito has claimed that his wife Martha-Ann Alito has raised the flag as a response to an argument with Baden during which she once made reference to the word “c*nt.” But Baden claimed that the exchange didn’t take place until February midway through. The news came out after The New York Times published an image in May of the reversed American flag being raised weeks earlier, on the 17th of January 2021.

Documents obtained by CNN reveal that Baden’s former boyfriend phoned police in February, 2021 to voice his concerns about Martha-Ann Alito and accused her of “unprompted” harassment.

The caller stated that they believed the fights were motivated by yard signs they put up which were in a negative light towards the former president Donald Trump.

Baden who has moved out of the area, described the exchange between the Alitos in a detailed manner Wednesday. She said Justice Alito “didn’t do anything” when she exchanged remarks with his wife.

“He just kept walking,” Baden stated. “And basically disappeared.”

Baden admitted that she regretted using profanity if she believes it “distracts from that real message.”

A sign Baden placed on the lawn read “You are complicit.”

Alito has said that a few of the signs posted in the neighborhood were aimed towards his wife. Baden claimed to CNN in a Wednesday interview that it was not the case. did not target either one of the Alitos.

The New York Times subsequently published a photo of the “Appeal to Heaven” flag on the couple’s New Jersey property. The flag, with an origin that dates back to its origins in the Revolutionary War, has also been a symbol of Trump supporters. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag as well as the inverted US flags were seen during the 6 January 2021 assault at the US Capitol.

The incident has drawn increasing criticism from Democratic and a few Republican lawmakers. A number of Democrats have asked Alito to resign from the cases that involve the attack at the Capitol.

In an unusual statement in the last month, Alito stated to lawmakers that he has nothing to have to do with the flags, and that they were not meant to signal an endorsement of Trump as well as any other cause for the Capitol attack. Refusing to recuse himself, Alito said the decisions to raise the flags came from his wife.

“My wife is fond of flying flags,” Alito wrote. “I am not.”

The Supreme Court is weighing major cases that are connected to the 2020 presidential election and the assault at the US Capitol. In one case, the justices are considering Trump’s claim to absolute immunity from the special counsel Jack Smith’s allegations of election subversion. Another case, an rioter from January 6 contests the obstruction charge brought against him by the prosecutors, insisting that Congress wanted the law to be applied to those who destroy evidence, not rioting in an official building.