In September 2008, as the world prepared to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of John Paul I, the Italian weekly "Diva e Donna" published an interview with Magee, presenting it as the first time he had broken his silence on the events surrounding the death of John Paul I, which he attributed to exhaustion brought on by the stress of the initial period following his election. Magee said he had been accused of having poisoned the Pope and had even been questioned by INTERPOL.