DETROIT, MI - Dearborn resident Betsy Andreu became a topic of discussion Thursday night in cycling icon Lance Armstrong's TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, and it generated some of the most tense moments in the 90-minute show.

Andreu is the wife of Frankie Andreu, a former Armstrong teammate, and reiterated in the show her claim that she overheard a cancer-stricken Armstrong tell a doctor in an Indiana hospital back in 1996 that he used performance enhancing drugs.

"The doctor started asking Lance questions and boom: Have you ever used any performance enhancing drugs?," she said. "Lance, hanging on to his IV, rattled off EPO, testosterone, cortisone, growth hormone and steroids."

After Betsy Andreu's comments aired, Armstrong refused to answer Winfrey when she asked if Andreu's claims were accurate.

Winfrey pressed Armstrong on the matter twice, leading to a rambling response.

"I'm not going to take that on," Armstrong said. "I'm laying down on that one."

Armstrong then added, "Um, I'm just not; I'm going to put that one down."

Armstrong did say he recently spoke with Betsy and Frankie Andreu over the phone for about 40 minutes, but believes amends weren't made.

After Betsy Andreu's deposition, Armstrong refuted her claims in his 2005 deposition.

"How could (the alleged incident with the doctor) have taken place when I have never taken performance enhancing drugs?," said Armstrong, during a video of his deposition that aired during the Winfrey interview. "How could that have happened? How many times do I have to say it?

Armstrong's response when Winfrey asked if he's made peace with the Andreus:

"Uh ... no… because … because …they’ve been hurt too badly, and a 40-minute conversation isn’t enough."

Messages left by Mlive Detroit this week with the Andreus at their Dearborn home haven't been returned.

Frankie Andreu told WJBK-TV (FOX 2 in Detroit) this week that

he's known about Armstrong's drug use for years and believes he was blackballed from the sport by his former teammate.

Andreu mentioned in the FOX 2 interview the same alleged confession Armstrong gave the Indiana doctor that his wife mentioned during the Winfrey show.

"A doctor asked him if he had been taking any performance-enhancing drugs," Frankie Andreu said. "He ran off a slew of like five of them, and so it was kind of like our eyes popped out of our head. It was shocker."

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Armstrong confessed to Winfrey during the interview that he did use a slew of performance-enhancing drugs, and

it generate plenty of passionate responses in Metro Detroit.