![]() ![]() This was also a friend I’d known for a year – we were close friends for a few months. This was clearly a pattern of behaviour and a problem I couldn’t see stopping. I was a friend, so if she was doing it to me, I knew she would do it to anybody. ![]() Thank you for saying that because of course the money was huge, but beyond that, this is a person who’s a criminal. The anger directed at your character’s decision to pursue Anna legally was uncomfortable viewing in the show – personally, I couldn’t understand it. I think the way this show straddles documentary and pure fiction is confusing for viewers who don’t care to actually do the research. But having been through it first hand, I see something troubling around the experience of being conned. I’m not interested in talking about this anymore or in Anna as a person – I’d love to move on. I appreciate people giving voice to it because when it comes from me, it’s easy to dismiss it as words of some ‘bitter ex-friend’. Something real happened here, and if you’re going to cover that, you have to change names or identifying features. But if you’re going to use people’s real names and details, you can’t just choose your own adventure. I think first of all, it strikes me as lazy because there’s this categorical disclaimer as if that gives them licence to do whatever they want. ![]() Is that something that you’ve found difficult? The show, like you say, combines fact with fiction that – when using real people’s stories like your own – can prove problematic. It’s really created a fictional show with little morsels of truth in it that is very deceptive and misleading. I’m immensely relieved I had the opportunity to tell the truth about what happened through the book, especially in light of Inventing Anna, since it diverged so much from the truth of events. Your version of events – as told in your book – clearly differs from the storyline in the show. ![]()
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