Truthfully, that’s not a defense.

Fagin v. Inwood Nat’l Bank rejected a request to recognize “truth” as a defense to a tortious-interference claim, holding:

We agree with our sister courts’ reasoning. As with affirmative claims, recognizing an affirmative defense that the supreme court has expressly declined to adopt raises a “litany of questions regarding the contours and scope” of the defense that we are ill-suited to answer. We conclude that neither this court nor the trial court below can legitimately recognize, in the first instance, an affirmative defense of truth to a claim for tortious interference with an existing contract.

No. 05-21-00878-CV (footnotes omitted) (mem.op.).