Because everyone who was giving me context was just a friend of his or a Reno-fanboy. It’d be like if Miley Cyrus said something racist and all her fans and friends told me she didn’t, I’m not gonna believe them right away without doing my own looking around/thinking.
But now that I am told it is about you, and you have told me personally that you feel as if he has changed for the better, genuinely, I am far more apt to believe it.