After delaying an unexpected schedule last fall, trickOn the four -part ABC payments that take over the most popular podcast and speak in 2023, for the first time on Thursday, January 30.
The display to the screen offers the real real story for Amanda RileyWife and attractive from the Thari Bay region, California, the community that is elaborately fakes with a battle of cancer and long -term for money, gifts in kind and sympathy from thousands of followers, including members of Megachurch.
Riley has documented her supposed illness with pictures and emotional corridors on her personal blog, as she requested donations in the form of criticism and goods for medical treatment, gifts, trips, concerts and celebrities (including one with one with one with one Lian Rims) And other privileges. The blog will be its decline: after the investigation product Nancy Moskatillo She received an unknown advice, and she and the authorities began to get rid of stark holes in the story of Riley, and she was finally convicted of fraud in 2021. She is now serving a five -year prison sentence.
But as the podcast listeners and viewers may notice, in the past, Riley's fraud appears to be somewhat clear, if not dirty. In the hospital pictures that we know now, they seem to be glowing and healthy – not similar to a person under chemotherapy or healing from surgery and other arduous cancer treatments. At one point on her blog, she claimed that an oncologist allowed her to direct the clinical chemical drugs trial at home in order to enjoy holidays. When she was contacted, famous cancer centers at the national level, where Riley said she was not a sick person who had records, as the offers are revealed. Likewise, charitable institutions that provided their money and/or services did not require documentation of their illness before paying it.
Why was many people and institutions easily deceived? “I don't think it was necessarily the stereotype of the fraud artist,” Charlie Webster trick It tells the podcast and the product US weekly In an exclusive interview. “I don't think these people were naive or naive.”
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“We are not wondering about people who suffer from cancer and we should not.” We Webster says of Riley, who talked about her alleged battle and her spiritual faith in her church. . It has shown a miracle. She had cancer, but she was surviving. She would collapse in the church, wet herself in the church, and took her ambulance in the church. “I stood on the stage and offered people to hope, which is what we all need in life at times.”
This was a woman in her community who was suffering from two children. People gathered around her to support her, and she was completely convincing. “Everything is too late. How did you ask that? You know that you will be the average, the terrible critical person in the back of the room.”
Charlie Webster
ABCWebster, whose conversation with Riley has become illuminated in a later episode of the show, has complicated feelings about the real life hero's motives for fraud. “I am 100 percent convinced that it was not for money,” says Webster. “I think it was addiction. I looked at everything from emotional, psychological, and second (perspective). I realized that this interest came – if you look at social media now, many people accuse them of“ liked them. ”It gives us the batch of endorphins. I think it was. On the stimulants, 10 times. This scanner saw it. They really did. “
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As for Riley's psychology, mental health struggles, including the possibility that a narcissistic trait or a person with Monchon syndrome will be presented? “Many people have interrogated me why I didn't mention Munchausen or mental health in the podcast; it has been briefly mentioned in the documentary.” “The reason I did not mention that and why I was completely fixed because this way is, one of them, I feel that it reduces the experiences of the victims, and two, not diagnosed with anything.”
Family Scamanda in ABC Thursday, January 30, 9 pm East time. The episodes will flow the next day on Hulu.
