"The lack of a name, the lack of this transparency, doesn’t help. But if she says there are legal reasons, that, for now, is the best I can get out of her."
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"I was watching for any body language and eye movement that would seem like she’s conjuring up a fiction. I had made a plan to ask her the same questions repeatedly over the next few days to see if any of her details didn’t match."
This is solid detective strategy
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"I asked again for names, but she refused. We get into this specific discussion later, but I wanted to establish her side of what happened in LA first."
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"One must work with the primary source first and then unspool what you can from there. I can’t reverse engineer it.
People refuse to understand this!!
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"This was all her account—she could be totally lying. It could be all true. Either way, the story makes me feel sick. If it’s a lie, I’m sick that someone would go this far to tell such a warped lie. And I’m sick that if it is true, I’m just asking her to relive some dark trauma.
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"I’ve literally told everyone from day one that I wanted to be famous. My parents knew that when I was a little girl."
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"As she dropped me off at her parent’s house, we got confirmation that this address had been doxed. I thought this would be a crazy place in the middle of nowhere to show up unannounced and hostile."
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I read the entire thing. Shane is a phenomenal story teller.
He basically hit on points I've been saying this entire time.
"I try not to peddle in knee-jerk reactions. ... I do not perform for trends, nor do I perform for the insatiable."
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I don't support or denounce her because I don't know the whole story.
Everyone deserves grace.
I reject mob mentality.
If she's lying then so be it. Let her hang herself with her own words.
If she's telling the truth then I never risked my reputation dragging her.
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