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You don't know anybody
You don't know anybody
You don't know when you got it till you talked to someone
Here's Lauren
And then I sent the text
I sent it to every person that I ever knew through Jess
I sent it to Danny, Bri's roommate, Megan, my
mom because she wanted to read it. I sent it to Bri through Instagram. I didn't
even have her number. Okay here it is. Just wanted to let you know I'm pressing
charges on Jess. She's been catfishing me for three years using this guy's photos,
emotionally abusing me, manipulating me, and using him to control my every move.
She tried to get me to fly across the country to see him, tried to get me to send naked
photos and would threaten to kill himself if I was out with other guys or girls.
I found the real guy and he said Jess has done this before and I talked to the girl
who used to be Jess's friend that she did it to.
Same exact shit.
I'm worried about her son so please make sure he is safe and please look out for yourselves. I don't want her to do the same thing to you. I understand there
are two sides to every story but I have all the proof. It didn't feel right not telling you what
she did knowing I could have saved someone else from this traumatic experience. Here's Brie.
So as Jess was sitting at our kitchen table and she saw that Lauren was at the police station,
I'm nervous after she brought up the police station and then Lauren sends this text to
her.
She wouldn't let me read it.
She basically skimmed it and just said, she's losing her mind, she's moving out and she's
getting a restraining order on me.
My stomach had fallen.
I hadn't received a message from Lauren at this point.
My roommate, myself, and Jess all got in the car.
We were going to pick up her child.
I knew something was wrong.
I didn't know what was wrong,
but I knew something was wrong,
and I knew Jess wasn't telling me the whole truth.
Lauren didn't have my number,
and that's why I think it just took later.
I believe I was one of the last people to receive it. My roommate, she was sitting in
the back seat and her phone went off and she goes, I just got a message from Lauren. And
you could tell that Jess's head was racing and immediately she was just trying to shut
it down by saying she is just trying to get to everyone that's close to me. She wants
to ruin my life. She wants to make all's close to me. She wants to ruin my life.
She wants to make all my friends hate me.
Talk to me before you open that.
It's really exaggerated.
She was just trying to make it seem like Lauren was blowing some joke
that happened a very long time ago out of proportion to make Jess's life hell.
And she really wanted my roommate to just block Lauren,
so she couldn't talk to her and hear what she had to say.
And my roommate refused.
She said, I'm not going to block her.
I have no reason to block her.
I'm not going to do that.
Jess did the manipulative card saying,
if you were my friend, you'd just block her and not listen to her.
I didn't hear it at this point.
She read it in the back seat of the car.
And we got to the school.
And mind you, my stomach is turning.
I was not feeling great.
We got out of the car and Jess was just trying to keep me super close to her.
But my roommate had pulled me back and said that the message that Lauren had sent her was messed
up and that I needed to read it. And I said, can you just kind of give me a quick rundown before
I can actually sit down and read it? She said it sounded like Jess had catfished Lauren and
Lauren found out it was her and is basically telling everybody and she's gonna be pressing charges. I was out of sorts. My world was
spinning upside down because it wasn't really me thinking, oh my god, Jess is Brody at this moment.
It was me thinking my best friend was not the person I thought they were. And I knew something
was up kind of like Lauren had said. She knew she was involved. She didn't know to what extent and she was hoping it wasn't to the extent that it was.
She didn't want it to be as bad as it was, but come to find out it actually was.
So this night, I still didn't know the full truth and we had gone to dinner with another
friend of ours in the group.
We had gone out to get pizza.
I went in to pick up the pizza. Jess had gone into the parking lot with my roommate at this point and answered the phone.
And that's when the real Brody called her and was saying, I told you not to do this
again. This happened three years ago. And this is Cliff Notes. I didn't hear the entire
conversation, but basically from what I was told, he said,
I told you not to do this again. And he was just saying, I'm going to ruin your life because
she didn't stop when she said she would. Her my roommate, she was just very stoic during
the whole conversation. There wasn't a lot of remorse. She may have thrown in and I'm
sorry, it wasn't anything emotional by any means.
But you could tell she was starting to panic. And at this point, I just wanted to know what
was going on. And I wanted to talk to my roommate, not with Jess. After dinner, we had gone back
to my place and Jess brought her kid there. And I didn't want her to stay over.
I didn't know what had happened,
but like she would stay over and we'd have sleepovers pretty often.
We'd watch movies and then go do our own thing.
But I had made it clear that I did not want to have a sleepover that night.
And that wasn't really usual for me to say no to her like that.
She and her child went home.
She had access to the camera that she had given me.
Jess had given my roommate and I a dog camera for the common space because we had just moved in.
I had two cats, she had a dog,
and we weren't sure how they were going to live together.
I didn't realize that she still had access to it, so
she could still listen to all of our conversations. Looking back, it makes everything make sense
now.
My roommate had told me that they were at work, but her child had been at our place.
It was just like an afternoon after school, and she was talking to him through the camera. And my roommate
had told me that she was doing that while he was at our place. And I looked at her and
I said, what? And she said, yeah, no, she was. I said, I didn't know that she still
had access to that camera. But that was after we had pieced everything together. That's
how we knew that obviously she'd been listening to our conversations. And that's why she had
been so clingy. She didn't want me and my roommate to talk and figure things out
because my roommate was looking into it more than she wanted,
and things were going to come to light.
It was all in this week,
all of these pivotal things happened.
Brody was still texting me at this time and wanted to watch a movie,
because occasionally that would happen.
We'd both have a night off and we'd have a Hulu party. You can do that and sing kulus and whatnot. But we were
all talking and Brody wanted to watch a movie and gave me attitude since I didn't write
then and there. Basically just trying to get me in my room, not talking to my roommate.
My car had been hit the day I moved here, so I was dependent on my friends and
Uber to get anywhere and Jess was always like, oh, of course I'll give you a ride. She liked
when I had to depend on her. She had the day off, I had to get a couple things done and
that was always the plan. But after everything had unfolded the previous evening. Of course, I was uneasy. I wasn't excited. I knew I needed
to have a chat with her and I wasn't really sure on how to do that. So I asked her, can
you come up before we go? I just want to talk to you. And at this point, I had been still
talking to Brody saying that I needed to talk to Jess about things. So
this was not a surprise to her because I had been confiding in him that
something was really messed up and I had to talk to her. She came upstairs and we
sat down on my couch. I didn't even lead into the conversation with anything. We
just sat on the couch and I looked at her and I said, if there's anything you're not telling me about Brody, Brad, Matt, Will, this entire situation,
you need to tell me now or it's going to be really bad. She just looked at me and shook her head,
didn't say anything. She just shook her head and got really quiet. And that was
that. I don't know if I was still in disbelief that this could maybe be what's going on.
I wasn't entirely certain. I just knew something was not right. And her looking me in the face,
shaking her head no, that she had nothing to do with it after receiving the messages from Lauren saying she was going
to press charges after talking to the real Brody and still lying to me.
I think it was just very telling.
I had no reason to not believe her yet.
I had never been betrayed by Jess.
I'd really want people to keep in mind, like, this was my best friend.
I had no reason to not trust her
I knew that her and Lauren had fought and at this point Lauren and I hadn't talked and I took everything
That was said with a grain of salt. There's two sides to every story
I was just thinking, you know
Lauren was sick of the shit moving out and did what she had to do to get out. And this conversation was before I
officially found out, of course, but I had an inkling that something was wrong, like Jess was
involved somehow. I just didn't know how. And then for her to like look me in the face and tell me
that she was not lying to me about anything, after all that was said to her, after the threats, after
After all that was said to her, after the threats, after Lauren pressing charges,
and she still tried to run with it.
It's telling.
My roommate wanted to meet up with Danny
and know what Lauren said to Danny
because she knew that Jess was not telling
either of us the truth,
and so she wanted to find out from somebody else.
She knew that my roommate was not going to let this go and
was going to figure out what was actually going on and was not going to sit there and
take Jess's word for it because of how sketchy she was being. So it was either the following
day or two days later when my roommate had finally talked to Danny and said, I need you
to tell me what's going on here. I don't feel like I'm being told the truth.
Here's Danny.
So I text Lauren and I'm like, Oh my God, what can I do to help you?
Can I help you move?
Do you have a place to stay?
Are you okay?
Lauren's parents live here in North Carolina.
Thank effing God.
She had help and a support system.
That's what I was mainly concerned about.
And she got back to me, but she was in the beginning at least, she was very vague. We
all connected later on and started telling our perspectives of this whole scenario to
each other. Lauren said she was sitting next to her mom while she was texting me because
I was the only one that responded because the other girls were with Jess. Lauren's still
sketched out by all of Jess's friends. She's probably sketched out by me. What if I knew? She had no idea.
So she was very vague at first when she would respond.
Here's Lauren.
Dani was a tricky one because me and her weren't super close. And my mom was kind of warning
me to be careful who I shared information with because of all this craziness.
We knew how manipulative Jess was. At first it seemed like Dani was like,
okay well I'm friends with her but I'll listen to your side. But that quickly changed. She said
firstly I'm so sorry, wow. Secondly do you need anything? Thirdly are you moving out? Do you need
anywhere to go? So she was very supportive on that front. So was Kaden. Kaden texted me.
It was really, really sweet hearing from them because I felt like I was alone in all of
this. I said, she's not a good person and everyone around me could see that, but I genuinely
trusted her. I'm okay. I just moved most of my stuff out today and going back for the
rest tomorrow. I'm staying somewhere temporarily until I figure out my next move, but I got
a restraining order against her. And she said, okay, I'm so sorry.
If you need anything at all, please don't hesitate to ask me and Caden are here.
That is so crazy.
Holy fuck.
I said, it's so bad.
I just want everyone in her life to be careful.
And I'm so worried about her son.
I said, three years of my life wasted on someone that never existed.
Danny said, I can't even imagine how you're feeling.
I won't bring it up to her unless she does.
What do you think is her motive?
I said, I think she likes girls, but she's also incredibly insecure and loves to have control over everything
So she weasels her way into your life as herself so she can watch it all unfold like it's some sick game
Danny said that's so crazy. How did you find out? I sent her a screenshot at screen recordings just everything. She's asking questions
She said this sounds like
some Dateline shit. I said, remember the guy that I was going to go on the boat with in
Southport? She said, the one we are going to meet up with? I said, yeah, he was never
real. She said, were all these guys Jess? I said, yeah, she created the whole family
and would text me through a texting app. The cousin that passed away never existed. The
brother, sister, other cousin, she even said his dog had three months to live.
She said she's not denying it, but she told me she wasn't going to text about it and she knows the truth.
That's insane. I told her I was willing to listen because I mean, I am her friend, but she didn't even defend herself.
I said she can't. I have all the proof and I will see her in court next week.
She said has she tried to reach out at all? I said, I blocked that bitch.
Dani said that Jess just texted her asking if I texted her.
I said, she's gonna know I did.
I'm reaching out to everybody.
Within 10 minutes, Jess started blowing up my phone.
She started texting me, is Lauren texting you?
I don't say anything.
She says, can you please just tell me what she's saying?
I don't say anything.
And I let a couple hours go by. I don't reply. And I talked to my
boyfriend about it. And I'm like, what should I do in this scenario? Should I
give her a chance to talk? Should I hear her out? What should I do? Because I
genuinely don't know. I didn't have all the information at the time. She was my
friend. So I responded to her finally after like a couple hours and I said,
I'm willing to hear you out if you tell me the truth. That's all I want. She said something along
the lines of I'm not comfortable with texting it, but I'm happy to meet up in person and talk to you.
And that's when I knew she was guilty. So I was like, okay, she wanted to have coffee
or something in like the coming days, two or three days.
That never happened because we found out
a lot more information.
Lauren, it feels like she trusts me a little bit more.
She's sending me screenshots of the text messages.
Like I have all the proof.
She sent me all the pictures,
the amount of abuse she sent me. It was just a
lot of name calling. Some of them, Jess would be talking to her catfishes. So there would
be text threads of Jess and Brody back and forth together talking. And then she would
screenshot them and send them to Lauren. And it seemed like a good friend for trying to talk to her boyfriend for her.
I'm like, you have to be batshit off your rocker.
She just knew that some of the girls
were in a place of a really bad depressive state.
And she continued.
We were really scared that maybe we would find out
someone did unalive themselves because of her.
The way these girls talked,
it was like they were in such a low pit.
Jess took so much away from them,
their whole identity, isolated them,
even lived with them and isolated them in that aspect.
It was insane.
The thing with the suicide,
the craziest part for me of that was
is that we work in healthcare
and Jess would text these girls as a fake doctor.
She basically used her own medical knowledge as manipulation to these girls to make it seem like
he was on a ventilator in a hospital. She said in the text messages that he was an organ donor
and he was going to be brain dead. But using terms that we would typically know
as respiratory therapists and be able to convey
to family members, it's wild.
Bree's roommate texted me and said,
hey, I wanna talk to you, can I call you?
She calls me and we talk and she's like,
I feel like I'm being lied to.
And I'm like, well, I'm not sure what she's
told you, but probably not all of the truth. And I tell her everything that Lauren had told me from
start to finish. And she was like, I'm definitely being lied to. She downplayed the whole situation
and said that this was a surface level prank. She was like, I'm pulling up to my house now.
Can you repeat everything you just said when I get around Brie? And I was like, I'm pulling up to my house now. Can you repeat everything you just said when I get around Bri?
And I was like, yeah, of course.
Here's Bri again.
Dani had filled in my roommate.
My roommate came home and she goes, I need to talk to you.
And I could just tell it was not going to be good.
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Tears had welled in my eyes. I knew this was not going to be good. She told me that she
had talked to Danny and gave the details. My roommate, she didn't know a ton about
my relationship, but she had known a little bit. And she said the name she used was Brody.
And I'm just like staring at her and she said he had a brother and basically described
the same relationship that I was in. And at first, none of us were like, oh, she's catfishing Brie,
too. At first, it was more like maybe she used your life as some weird plot to do this to Lauren,
because it was so crazy.
But that only lasted for about three minutes in my head.
And then they had hung up the phone and Dani had talked to Lauren.
She said, question, do you know that Bree's boyfriend's name is Brody and his brother's name is Brad?
I didn't know Bree even had a boyfriend or anything like that. I said, um, she said,
dude, lol. I said, hold on, I'll call you back. I'm eating. She said, I was just on
the phone with Bree and I told her how you told me Brody was a doctor. I said, has she
met him? She said, yes, they're real people. Brad and Brody are real. I said, how long
has she been dating them? She said, I think about three years. I'm asking now. I said, yes, they're real people. Brad and Brody are real. I said, how long has she been dating them? She said, I think about three years. I'm asking now. I said, are you sure she's
met them? That sounds sketchy AF. She said, I think so. That was my first thought too,
when you told me all this was happening, that it might be happening to Brie, but I'm pretty
sure they used to work together. But that's what Jess told me. I said, don't believe a
word she says.
Lauren was like, Jess is a liar. Call her back right now.
So I called Bri back, she didn't pick up.
I'm like blowing their phones up.
Like, please answer the fucking phone.
Finally, Bri's roommate picks up and she's like, what's up?
And I'm like, has Bri ever met Brody in real life?
And it was like a deadpan silence.
And then I just hear her scream cry. And oh my God, it was like a deadpan silence and then I just hear her scream cry and
oh my god it was horrible. It was just crazy the switch that flipped in real life. It felt like a
movie. The whole room felt like it spun upside down. I never experienced anything like that. It was so
crazy. The Lauren story. It was so nuts And we truly believed that she was the only one
and I never could fathom it getting worse
or crazier or weirder,
because it was already so bizarre.
And then I'm on the phone and we connect the dots
and it's 10 steps way worse.
Here's Brie.
Danny called her back and she looked at me.
I'm standing in my doorway.
She's in the kitchen and she goes, wait, have you and Brody met?
And that's when I broke down.
I honestly don't remember what words exactly were said.
It was life changing.
I had screamed because it hit me that as bad as this was, it wasn't a real man being this
awful person to me. It was someone I thought was my best friend. Emotionally manipulating,
torturing, terrorizing me. All of this awfulness was literally just a game. My head was spinning.
They were both like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. Like no one really knew what to say or do in this situation.
But basically we got me and Lauren on the phone right away and we compared
stories, names, people, incidents, all the things and everything aligned.
Everything.
What I had gone through Lauren had gone through too.
We're like, there's no way, there's no way this is actually happening. But as we both cross-checked
all the phone numbers, she told me how she found the real Brody and the real pictures.
I didn't have any question. There was no need to convince me that it wasn't like I knew it was
Jess and she was the only tie. I knew my life was
about to flip and it wasn't going to be good either way for a little while because I lost my
best friend. The only good thing was being free of this psychopath. Finally, there was no ifs,
ands, or buts. Like it was done and there was no question about it. I just remember calling my mom minutes after I got off the phone with Lauren and I told her she was right.
Earlier that day, we had talked on the phone and this is the very first time anyone in
my life had ever suggested it could be Jess. And I remember saying, there's no way. She questioned whether it was real, as did Emily,
but me saying that I had met him once,
that was always in the back of everyone's head,
but never once did anyone in my life ask if it was Jess.
They all questioned if it was real, of course,
but nobody ever thought it could be her.
I remember calling my mom and I had
feelings all over the board. I wasn't sure what was right, what was real, what
was going on. I mean, I was just crying. I couldn't believe it. She was never like,
I told you so. She never made me feel stupid, she never made me feel bad for telling
her that I had met him.
We talked about how I had enough hate for myself at that point that she didn't need
to add to that.
She knew I was being as hard as I could be on myself.
But she said, all we can do is move forward.
And first and foremost, she wanted me to get to the police station to get a restraining
order as well.
Here's Bree's mom.
When I found out it was Jess, immediately I'm like, there's no blame that's going to
happen here. This is not the space for that. We're going to move forward and we're going
to fix this. I wasn't going into how could you see somebody for four years? You know, that's not what it was about. I mean, I'm old, but I'm not stupid. I wasn't going into, how could you see somebody for four years? That's not what it
was about. I mean, I'm old, but I'm not stupid. I know what happens online with younger people.
Whatever. It is what it is. It's not my place to judge. That's not my job here. It was like,
okay, what are our next steps? What do we have to do next?
I did have a last conversation with both Brody and Jess. She tried to be Brody till the very
end. I said, you lied. You're a monster. Brody was like, I don't know what you're talking
about. Who's Danny? Trying to just play this off. And then I figured it out. And the last
thing I said to Brody was, this is all fucking fake, what in the actual fuck?
That's when I texted Jess and it sounds so stupid like saying it now, I don't know why I didn't just
text her right off the bat, but I was probably still just in like this shock mode. The last
text thread between Jess and I was Tuesday, August 29th at 6 16 p.m. I said you have a lot
of explaining to do Jessica what in the actual fuck are you him tell me the
fucking truth she said I will call you I said tell me the fucking truth she said
you already know what I did because I've told you all we've talked about for a week straight.
And I said you lied. She said, what did I lie about? I said, you're a monster. She said, call me.
Can you call me? Or can we talk in person? I said, what in the actual fuck is wrong with you?
She said, Bri, I don't know. Can we talk about it? I don't know what I can do for any of it.
And I said, I don't want to speak ever again.
And I blocked her.
So I went to the police station.
I just needed to talk to either a detective, a police officer.
I needed to explain what was going on.
I couldn't get a restraining order.
I had to go to the court during a certain time frame, is what I was told. So I didn't go a restraining order. I had to go to the court during like a certain timeframe,
is what I was told. So I didn't go till that next morning. But that night I was trying
to get my story in writing so it was documented as soon as I could. And it felt like it was
just getting handed off to, oh, you need to talk to someone in this district, or you need
to talk to somebody in this section of the office, or you need to talk to somebody in this section of the office or you need to talk to someone here.
I was retelling it over and over and I felt insane. I don't feel like anyone really took it really serious.
I had gone to the courthouse that next day and I filled everything out to get a restraining order and
initially it was not granted.
get a restraining order. And initially, it was not granted. There was one for more of like a domestic violence, and there was one for basic generic restraining order. And they
had given me the wrong one to fill out. So it was automatically dismissed. You could
tell they really didn't even read it. It didn't take long. I was so confused. Then I went
back, and I believe this was even a couple days later with like work
schedules and everything because it was not close. So then I went and I just remember it took
a long time. They were reviewing everything. It was submitted and I got it filed. So the second
time I attempted, I got the right papers filled out. It was granted. However, it took a very
long time to serve Jess with the papers. I had gotten my restraining order granted September
1st, but I believe it was eight days it took to serve her with the papers. I know it was
longer than a week to serve my restraining order and then the misdemeanor
cyber-stalking charges as well.
Here's Monica.
My boyfriend and I had went to Omaha for a weekend about two weeks before discovery.
And it was so weird.
We went to the mall that I went to when I was waiting for Brody for hours.
I had spent like four hours there that day just wasting time waiting for him to wake up. We went to that same mall. I told my boyfriend that we had
to go to this pizza place that was so good that Jess slash Brody, they actually both
talked about it, Lighthouse Pizza in Omaha. And I was like, we have to go here and get
pizza. It's so good. So we went there for lunch and we were sitting there eating pizza and I
looked at my boyfriend and I was like, I just wish we'd run into him. I don't miss him. It doesn't
mean anything, but like I just wish he would walk by or something. And my boyfriend's was kind of
like, well, why, why does it matter? And I was like, because at least then I would know he's real.
Over three years after I had been done with Brody, but it was still in my brain. Not that I would know he's real. Over three years after I had been done with Brody, but it was
still in my brain. Not that I would have gone back to him. I'm very, very, very happy in my
relationship now. I went through all that time and all that stress and everything I went through with
Brody for over a year and still not even having a hundred percent proof that he was a real person.
So my boyfriend was like, well, why does it matter?
And I told him, I was like, well, because if he's not real, then Jess has been lying
to me because she's the only person I know that knows Brody.
There's also so many times she would tell me that she would go hang out with Matt and
Brody and I would get so upset because I'm like, you know how hard I've been trying to
meet Brody and hang out with Brody and I would get so upset because I'm like, you know how hard I've been trying to meet Brody
and hang out with Brody.
Why would you just go there and hang out with him
and not let me know or not bring me?
It would always just drive me insane.
In the months leading up to discovery,
we definitely weren't as close as we used to be,
but still would randomly Snapchat,
randomly text, randomly FaceTime.
She wanted me to come to North Carolina and visit and do a photo shoot,
and she even wanted me to bring my boyfriend, which looking back now is weird,
and I wonder what would have happened.
Of course, there would have been some sort of drama.
But I would say our friendship was okay.
So on August 30th, I got a message from Bree.
And this was a Wednesday morning.
I had just gotten to work.
It was right before 8 a.m.
And a message from Bree pops up.
I was a little confused
because Bree and I had never really talked,
being that Jess had separated us so much.
But she messaged me saying,
I'm reaching out because I'm sure Jess hasn't told you
or not the whole truth if she did.
She has been catfishing both Lauren and I
for three plus years.
She's pretended to be a man, asked for nudes,
sent someone else's pictures, manipulated, gaslighted,
and ruined my life with her sick, twisted game.
Every time I tried to leave the situation,
the man she
was portraying threatened to kill himself. This is just a small fragment of what's been
going on for a very long time. She's lied to everyone. I've been in therapy for it.
Lauren is pressing charges and got a restraining order and I will be doing the same."
I replied to her immediately. My first message just said, oh my gosh, and then I said she did the
same thing to me also, dot dot dot. And she replied saying when in all caps. And I
said I've been questioning this for years, that's how I first met her. And
then Bree said can you call me? I said I thought I was talking to Brody for
almost two years and then she called and we talked about the entire thing and I was pacing
the sidewalk outside my work before we opened. Our stories literally we could finish each other's
sentences they were so identical and so similar in every way so we were like holy shit. I hung up with her and went inside and looked at all my co-workers. We're
all really close. They're all like second parents to me, honestly, and they had known
about the whole Brody situation from years past. When I was trying to meet him and when
I was talking to him and what he did and they knew everything, they had seen pictures of
him. I sat down at the desk and they
were like what's up because I mean they said I had no color in my face like something's wrong.
What's going on? And I looked at them and then I just lost it. I said I just found out who the real
Brody is and it was Jess. They all knew about Jess also because she was a good friend of mine.
They knew about her and knew that we hung out all the time. I sat there a little bit
and they were all in complete shock. Then I ran to the bathroom and threw up. I felt
like I had no control over my body. Luckily, I hopped on my phone and I don't know, it
was obviously a God thing that someone had canceled their therapy appointment at noon that day.
So I booked it before I went to therapy. I talked to Jess.
So I got that phone call and talked to Bri around 8 a.m. that day.
And then I talked to Lauren also and
we've been texting and she also called me and I was at work but I had pretty
much been on the phone all day talking to these two about what we had
discovered. Then at 10 12 a.m. I get a text from Jess saying, I do need to talk to you about something when you have time period.
I of course am freaking out texting Brie and Lauren like,
Oh my gosh, she just texted me.
Obviously she did not know that Brie had already reached out to me
and we've already connected the dots with the situation.
I'm just like, what do I say? Do I act like I don't know?
Do I confront her about it?
What should I do?
So I just replied, what's up, question mark.
That's just hilarious now because I know how I was feeling
at the time where I was like shitting my pants.
I was trying to get her to like type it out.
So I had it in writing, but she replied,
can you call me today sometime?
So I am on the phone with Lauren and I'm freaking out.
I'm like, dude, I cannot talk to her on the phone.
I will lose it.
I'm not strong enough for this.
She was like, I'll be on the phone with you.
I'm just going to mute myself.
She was helping me by sending me what to ask because my brain simply was so in shock at the time
that I could not have a conversation with anyone, let alone the person who'd put me
in this state. So I called her and I pretended like I had no idea what she was calling me
about. It was so scary. Here's Lauren. I told Monica that we could call her
and I could be on mute and record the call.
Now it is.
Okay, so I have to try to call her now?
Yeah, I'm nervous.
I'm so fucking nervous.
I like, I asked three if I should act like I don't know at all, cause I don't.
Yeah, maybe you should just act like you don't know.
And see what she says.
Just be like, you're at work.
Alright, I'm calling her.
Okay, I'm meeting.
I'm sorry, I'm fucking right in.
And I hate that it happened.
But I just wanted to be honest with you and talk to you about
it because I care about you so much, but obviously we didn't keep talking or anything like that.
I just needed to be honest with you about that.
So what happened?
Brody.
No.
Yeah, I just wanted to be honest with you
and tell you like he wasn't real
so it was you?
yeah
and I like made that
profile or whatever you call it
the Hymns account like
to make
friends I don't know why like
I mean I like did that to make friends. I don't know why like I mean I like did that to make friends. I have no idea.
I had a long talk with like my aunt and stuff last night and like I just I need to call Monica and talk to Monica about it.
Yes. And it's just it's really hard for me because I just I don't I don't know I just
I just, I don't, I don't know. I just, I love you to death.
And I mean, I have, you know, we have like such a good friendship and I just, I didn't
want like any secrets from any of it.
I wanted to go talk to you and like tell you like what happened and what it was. It's one of those things that's hard when you're doing that.
You just stop because maybe your little attachment is going with it. It's never supposed to be
that and I just got caught up with it and I needed to be honest with you. I appreciate that, but I mean, I mean, I went through a lot with Brody and he's like, you
know that, and I was hurt and really fucked up by that situation in itself.
I know.
You know?
And I think that's like the hardest part is like it didn't need to become that and then that situation in itself. I know.
And I think that's like the hardest part is like it didn't need to become that.
And it did.
Like I used to like, when I would like be with you
or I would like see how hurt you were by it and stuff,
like I didn't want to keep doing that.
You know, like I didn't think that like anything
could ever come from that.
You know what I mean?
Like without like meeting or anything.
Yeah.
I don't know if that makes sense.
Like, I guess I never expected, like, emotions to, like, get involved with it.
I just wanted it to, like, fade away, which I mean, I did, you know,
obviously, I quit talking, but like it didn't matter, like, when we had talked a lot, you know?
I mean, I sent her a picture, I like everything. I'm sad but like I just want you to know like I don't
have any of that stuff and I think that like when I was talking to Alicia about it like in the moment
you try to like make it as real as you can and I think the the best was really hard. It was never like, get pictures
like that or anything like that. You go with it and it's just like when it happened I didn't
know how to just stop it. I mean, I don't know. I mean there's no excuse for any of
it. I just really needed to be honest with and like I wanted you to be able to talk to me about it And I just I know it's really hard because I can like ruin like a trust
Between us. So like I just want to be able to give you whatever you need from me
if I don't like
You know, it's hard to say like I don't want to lose you like I don't want to lose you but I wanted to be honest with you
So I appreciate you being honest I just wish you would have known that like I valued our
friendship itself. Like without that. I know that's how we met but I'm sure we would have met a different way. You know, I've made gay friends a different way.
And, uh, like that was two years of my life.
And people thought I was crazy because I was waiting for someone who wasn't real.
You know?
What do you need from me?
Has it happened?
Almost like, I know I talked to Rachel a few weeks like at the beginning of the summer
and she said that Bree was talking to Brody because she asked how I had met you.
She said, had you meet Jess again?
And I was like, well, I tried to call you and look for Brody.
And she's like, oh, is that the guy that Bree's talking to also?
And what's up on whatnot?
And then I ever like, I mean, like if I asked Brody and he said no, but I don't know.
Like.
Oh, no.
I mean, I'm being honest with you.
It did happen with Brie too.
And Brie also found out and I'm just kind of like,
Brie had messaged Megan, I don't know how much time you have,
but Brie had messaged my sister about it.
So like what initially happened? Like I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be honest, I'm just going to be? Like I'm just going to be one of those friends who's not with you. Um, same way that I met you, like is the same way that I met Lauren,
same way that I met Brie, like three of my best friends. And it's really, really hard for me to
like, not necessarily like I had to do that to like find some good friendships. But I think that
a lot of it comes from like my childhood
trauma like everybody leaving me and like nothing everlasting so it's like I
always just knew like you know I like met you guys all that way and I mean I
talked to my Annalisa about it. She's really good at like understanding.
She's like known me for so long.
Like the way that she worded it, just like it made sense.
I need to write it down because I process everything right now.
But I mean, I don't know why I feel like I can't make friends of my own.
And I have to like use some sort of leverage to gain friendships.
And then like just like, you know, everyone's like, well, why don't you just like go with them and stuff. own that I have to like use some sort of leverage to gain friendships and then
like just like you know everyone's like why don't you just like ghost them and
stuff and it's like why would you like you guys upset like if I didn't respond
or you know like I saw they looked behind it and like well I don't want to be the
reason for that so I would just like put the bandaid over it like keep
responding and keep so I think so like let the breathing that's different is a bit toxic and not good.
I mean, I remember a few times when I tried to stop
to like every, actually like every time I tried to stop,
there would be a near death situation or like, you know,
like in which case I would have almost been getting you out, but...
Well, yeah.
And that didn't happen.
But like, it's hard because like, I don't really feel that way.
Like, I don't feel like I'm...
She was foul or anything like that.
And, I mean, I'm not at all.
Like, I'm myself, like, I'm scared to die.
And like, I don't know why, like, that was the...
Like, I don't know why that's what I said.
You know what I mean?
Like, that kid I had Brody on added Ketten at one point and all that just really confuses me.
Like, why? Why if you were trying to stop things or like end like that,
then why was it like,
trying to solve conflicts in other parts?
Like a spotlight, like I only talked to myself.
Was it like when you and Kirtan started talking?
Yeah.
I think it's cause we showed up on like
the suggestion thing or something.
But I don't think I was trying to go out of my way to have public opinion on Ketten at all.
I don't know why. I don't remember why it did that though.
It's not his problem.
And I mean, I'm...
You know, when I saw you were with Ketten, it was... It made me really happy because that's all I'm, you know, when I saw like you were with Kent and like it was, like it
made me really happy because that's all I wanted for you.
And I mean, that's what I still want for you no matter what.
But I just was like, knowing that you had moved on and found somebody that like you
deserve because of the kind of person you are, like that made me happy.
And that's what I like wanted to see come from all of it like where I don't I have I couldn't like I just I wasn't able to stop
talking and I don't know why I don't know if it's something I held on to
because I had nothing else to hold on to I have no idea and I don't know if
maybe like I thought you know if like you guys stop talking maybe you're like
well I don't want to have a focus with jazz. And so I have to talk to a therapist
to really process all of it, because there is a lot right now.
And I just want to go through it the best way possible.
And I mean, you have questions.
I have questions for myself, but I
don't know how to answer them right now,
because I don't understand everything, than like what my aunt was talking
me about or like my friend Sarah and I mean Lauren messaged everybody in my life
and told everybody about it and I have lost everybody you know it's kind of
like a lot right now but I wanted to tell you before anybody else did because I mean I
don't know if Bree's gonna message you or anything and I just appreciate you
calling me and owning up to it but I think I have a lot to process because I mean, I had even, I mean I'll be honest, I had friends like from
the beginning where like, Brody's not real, like it's just, she's going like, hi, you
have blah blah blah and I was just like, no, there's no way, like, there's no way, there's
no way, there's no way. And for years now, even though I've been done with Brody, I still
have failed to have that closure. And like, he's still there, but he's not there.
And now I'm at the end of like why I want to talk to you.
Yeah. It's just really messed with my head for like even this whole, this whole time.
So.
Like still?
Yeah. I mean, I mean I were in Omaha
Again sure get away and went to a mall and I was like this is the mall that I spent like five hours
That when I was waiting for Brody
Yeah, I mean can't know everything about
Brody it was a I mean it was a very, very hard time for me. I waited for Thanksgiving
and Christmas because I was going to go meet him and spend time with his family and all of
the things, you know, just to be let down every time and be heartbroken every time. I loved you
as a friend, but I fell in love with Brody like I literally
like I mean you know that he he was with me through it all obviously like I
you know that's why I wanted to talk to you about it and I appreciate it just a lot so
I just need like I want to give you whatever you need from me.
Because like it's not fair to you.
But I just, it's really hard because like you know that was our situation.
But on the other side of it, I did get one of my best friends.
And it's hard because it happened the way that it did.
I just wanna, I mean it hurts me that I hurt you
and I did the entire time.
And I feel like I kept lingering
and I didn't know what you mean about like no closure.
Like obviously I'm Snapchat and stuff,
but like I think I just didn't know how to like,
I think I just had to like stay available
if you ever needed anything. But like at the same time, like it doesn't make any sense. I didn't wanna keep going like I think I tried to like stay available if you ever needed anything but at the same time like it doesn't make any sense I didn't want to
keep going with it you know like it was just like like eventually I just wanted
I mean as happy as I am like everything has come out now and I can like start
like processing things and like going to therapy for it like it is hard and I don't know I don't really
have like the right words to say in regards to all of it I know that I made a mistake and I mean
hurting you hurting you three like hurting anybody wasn't what I ever wanted I had just told that it
was just like I mean just like talking stages like with people like it just kind of goes away like
if you know you don't see each other you don't have anything to hold on to and I don't know if like the talking just made it harder to just like put it behind or
what but it's something that and you know I know I don't really know and more and I has gotten really nasty with it, and I mean, it's not fair.
But like, I don't know how to like, not have briefs, and I don't have her anymore.
And I'm just, I'm like, I mean, before anybody else told you, I wanted to talk to you about it because I want. I know that that like ruins a lot of trust and it like put you through a lot and like
you said it's still affecting you and I just want you to know that like I'm not what I
did and I'm really sorry. I think I just think about it because it was just like a lot of manipulation and like,
I don't know, the only word I can think of is like brain fucking and heart fuck, like
fuck with my heart, fuck with my brain and like and like, I mean, it took a lot,
a lot, a lot for me to like, be done with him because I honestly felt so hard.
Like, I could feel absolutely stupid for him, I never met him, I never talked to him on
the phone, like...
I don't want you to feel stupid for that because, I mean, I understand like, why you do, but
like, that's what happens a lot, you know, like I know, like, I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it.
I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. I don't want you, like I don't, I don't think you're stupid.
I don't think any of it.
Cause I mean, I was on the other side of it, you know, like I know, like we talked
about a lot of things and I, I don't know.
I just, I got to go and my patient's gonna be here in nine minutes.
Okay.
Have a good day.
Always. Bye.
Listening back to the phone call, I can tell my head wasn't there
because I was so in shock and reacting to everything that had already happened that morning.
I definitely wish I could have been a lot stronger with her and firmer with her and angry with her,
but I was just so frozen.
Like I said, I literally had to have someone texting me what to say while I was on the phone,
because that's just how frozen I was.
But her saying, her main excuse for the whole thing was she had to do this to make
friends and did I believe that a little bit when she said it originally? Maybe?
But of course immediately questioned like okay if you were just doing this to
make friends why did it keep going on and on and on after we were already
friends with you? We were friends, we were good. Yet it kept going on
and to the extreme that it went on was insane and uncalled for. Why was it so abusive and so
manipulative and so trapping and the level of extreme that it went to was just insane. I know
the other girls tried to get out of the relationship with Brody so many times
and she wouldn't let us out of it.
So that was another question I had.
Like, if this was just for you as Jess being friends with us, then why, why didn't the
Brody stuff end?
She has an excuse for freaking everything.
And she just went on to say, oh, well, I felt like if you guys didn't have Brody in your life then you
wouldn't want me or need me as a friend anymore.
I understand where you're coming from there with your excuse but obviously I
know that's a lie. I told her like we were friends and
had Brody not been in the situation at all we would have been friends
and there's no reason for it to have gone to the extreme that it did.
But then also back to her saying she was only doing this to gain friendships.
Looking back at that now, I say that's complete bullshit as we have
learned of so many other victims that she has done this to where they were friends first
like anonymous college roommate people.
She did this to in high school, et cetera.
She was friends with all of them first
and then brought in a catfish character
to them in one way, shape, or form,
whether it was passing notes or MySpace or Facebook
or Tinder or Hinge.
That was just her excuse for us,
but I think the friendship
excuse that she has now is just stupid. If this was just for friendship, then why was
Brody asking us for sexual pictures and sexual messages? Why was he so pushy with that?
Here's Lauren again.
Jess starts crying alligator tears,
talking about how she's so sorry
and she says it so casually for it to be what it was.
And she's like, you know, Brody, yeah, that was me.
And Monica has to act like she has no idea
what Jess is talking about.
And I'm sitting there telling Monica what to say
or questions to ask.
I think it was laughable.
I think it was pathetic.
I think she was mid-texting her other victims while she's on the call. She sounded distracted.
She sounded so insincere. She sounded like she was doing damage control. I could go on
and on. She talks about how it wasn't sexually motivated,
which is a huge lie.
I want to preface this by saying
that I don't want to talk about this,
but I think it's important to shed light on it
because it's sick and it's violating
and it was a part of something bigger for me
because it was something that I opened up to Brody about and discussed my own struggles and the responses that I got back from Brody
were sickening. I mean if I typed in a certain body part into my search bar I
could scroll the entire probably podcast length of her saying disgusting shit
that she wanted to do to me.
Looking back on it, yes, it was disgusting, but it was too much for someone that I've never met before.
And I remember pressing the brakes a little bit and being like, I'm not comfortable saying these things.
I don't mind if you say them to me, but I'm not going to reciprocate that with that same energy
because I have issues with that.
And I was trying to open up to him about that so that he would stop being so aggressive and being
so sexual all the time when it made me incredibly uncomfortable. The main thing
was just I didn't know what to say back. It would make me uncomfortable so I
would tell him yeah like things are different with me than probably some of
the girls you've been with. It's gonna take me more time. I need you to be
patient with me but that doesn't mean I don't
want these things. It just means I'm going to have to take my time to get there and I'm going to have
to trust you. I also wasn't getting very much from him that made me feel like I could trust him.
He said, being a guy, it's a frustrating situation because I don't want to feel like I have to be
cautious all the time and I'm not the one to wait on you to make the move. So now it's just me constantly overthinking. I don't want to read all of it, but I said
things are probably going to be a little bit different with me in intimate aspects because
I've had some trauma with that and I'm learning not to associate it with negative things.
He says I'm just not used to being told I can't talk about how bad I want a person.
I hinted at the idea that he was coming at me a little too strong.
He says, what if I'm too much for you?
What if we're not sexually compatible?
I guess I'm just too sexual and I don't mean to be.
Then he says, it sounds like you're not ready for a relationship.
I don't want to be too much and I don't want to not be enough either and right now I'm sitting at a yellow light with
you." He said, I just don't think the same things are important to us. I said, so
what I'm understanding is that you want to fuck me more than you want to see me.
He said, no, I just think having that is important. I worry I'm gonna be too much
for you. He said, if you don't want to have sex just say that. I said, why are
you saying that? And he said, how you're acting. I said, you don't want to have sex just say that I said, why are you saying that and he said how you're acting I said you're acting like that's the most important aspect of finally meeting and it's not I want it to happen
But spending time with you for the first time is enough for me and sex is just a plus
I said, I guess there are things that are going to trigger me or there's going to be times where I don't want to do
Anything. He said how have you had hookups if that's the case
I said because I hadn't processed it yet
and I just turned my emotions off and would numb it out.
And it didn't help that I was drinking.
It's very common that people who have trauma
try to get over it by doing more of it.
And he said, so I'm just luckier saying,
I said, how are you lucky?
And he said, so all these other guys got to fuck too
and it was whatever, but I have to be cautious
of what I do so I don't cause a trigger. You don't just have a trigger just to have it. You have to know what your
trigger is. I send him a screenshot that says, you may or may not know what's caused it and
that's okay. He asked me to go into detail about trauma and stuff that had happened to
me. I said I don't want to dangle a carrot in front of your face and then decide I don't
want to and not feel like I can stop.
I said, you need someone that hasn't gone through what I have, simple as that.
He says, it's not about being with someone that has or hasn't because you're not the
first girl that's been through that.
I said, I'm fully aware of that.
And he said, okay, so again, you can explain what you said.
I'm not asking again.
I'm trying to be on the same page and understand.
I said, stop demanding things from me. I don't owe you an explanation. What is there not to understand
about what I said? I don't want to feel like I can't stop something because I've already
started it. And he starts getting mad. He said, I can't beg you to help me understand.
And honestly, I don't care anymore. You refuse to help me understand the situation. So if
I do something that pisses you off, so be it. You had the chance to open up and refuse to and now I don't care to know. It
is what it is. I said, LOL you don't care, say less, go find someone else, I'm not
your problem anymore. He said, no I don't care because clearly you don't either or
you would have talked to me about it but I'm not going to keep fucking caring
when you refuse to open up and help me understand. I said, I would never say that
about something you struggle with and don't want to open up about. That's foul. And then he says it's very obvious
you're looking for an out from this so you can run back to him. I said you think I'm
using my sexual trauma as an out? Listen to yourself. What the actual fuck? And he's just
going on and on. I'm saying I'm disgusted. He doesn't think he owes me an apology.
I said, you blatantly said I'm looking for an out
to be with him.
Once again, I confided in you about something
I haven't told many people and it backfires on me.
I don't know how to talk about the vibrator.
I don't know how to bring it up.
When did that happen?
I was in North Carolina.
Was it a gift?
Like that he sent you?
It was a previous gift. From someone else?
Yes. I think I screenshotted something on my phone and it had the app on it.
And he recognized the app and said, you have one of those.
It's a remote control vibrator.
Someone can control it from anywhere in the world.
It connects through the app.
You get permission through sending a text message
and they can access it if they have the app downloaded.
They can change like the speeds
and the different settings and whatnot.
And he kept asking me to let him use it.
And finally I did. I think it happened like once or twice.
It wasn't much because it was too much for me. I think it just made me feel shameful or something.
I don't know. Because he was so hot and cold, I didn't feel safe with him. And I have to personally
be very comfortable with someone in order to do that.
I'd never met him, I'd never talked to him on the phone.
And I had these thoughts in the back of my head,
like, what if this guy isn't real?
I just didn't feel comfortable with it.
It definitely revved up to the point where he would be like,
well, gonna go get off, good night.
Like he would tell me all the time when he was getting off
and it wasn't like him talking dirty.
It was like, hey, I'm gonna go get off, okay? I'll talk to you tomorrow. To the
point where you could tell he would get like mad if he didn't get off or finish or whatever.
It was annoying. It was frustrating. I think she has some sort of sexual attraction to
women and she can't sit with that. She does not want to believe that and
doesn't want to come to terms with that and then has these relationships with these women
but then claims that she is just trying to make friends with them because it was obvious
that when the sex was gone or when the relationship was gone, she wanted me gone or she didn't
care if I was gone.
I remember she one time got actually mad at me that I didn't want to go to sleep in her
bed.
I think her son was gone to a sleepover or something.
And she's like, I can't sleep without someone touching me or like without my body touching
someone else's.
In my opinion, it didn't sound weird.
She liked to have a body next to her while she was sleeping, which I get that.
But I didn't want to because I like to spread out while I sleep and I just didn't want to. And it became kind of a problem
to her. She was just like, all right, fine. I don't remember exactly how mad she got,
but she definitely was upset about it. Because I remember asking her the next morning, I
was like, were you actually upset with me that I didn't stay in the bed with you?
And what did she say?
She just said the same thing about how she likes to sleep with people or she doesn't sleep well.
Here's Brie.
The grieving part of it, which I did throughout all of the suicide attempts,
and I cannot reiterate enough how freeing this was because I hated this person,
and I couldn't get away from them, and I had been in survival mode for so long.
I was so happy to be free. It sounds so messed up, like, why were you there for so long? I
was upset that my, I thought, best friend could do something like this to me, but the thought that I
was free of Brody, it was life-changing, which people also probably won't understand,
but I did, no matter what I tried to get away, like I just could not in a way that I could emotionally handle at that time.
Whether I blocked him, he'd reach out to me, someone else would reach out to me, it never ended.
And it was like, this is done, and I can move on and get on with my life and focus on myself
and be happy again.
I've had a lot of people say, you might have big waves of grief come and hit you.
It could happen.
It hasn't yet.
I'm still very like, this person betrayed me.
The hate that grew for this person that kept torturing me and not letting me go, like,
I don't miss that at all.
After being made to feel crazy for so long, I had cried so much about that stupid situation
and grieved it for so long.
By that time, I was just like, oh my God, it's finally done.
Next time on Something Was Wrong.
She has pictures that are on my camera roll that was never uploaded anywhere.
Unless Jess was outside of the restaurant staring at me,
seeing me and this guy sitting at the bar,
being able to describe the restaurant I was at, seeing me and this guy sitting at the bar, being able to describe
the restaurant I was at, knowing what he looked like. There's no way unless she was actually
there watching me.
It's terrifying to think about this girl who caused so much pain and anguish to all these
people destroying these young women's lives.
This person on the other end immediately was like, who are you?
I don't know who you are.
And if you keep telling people that we're boyfriend and girlfriend,
I am going to call the cops 14 at a time.
And I'm just like, what the fuck?
Even as a friend with Jessica,
she always made me feel like I was not good enough.
Like I was not the pretty friend.
So Jess and I loaded up in my Jeep
in the middle of the night and drove 500 miles
to Wisconsin to this hospital
that Mitch was supposedly at.
None of us expected it.
We turned around and she was right there.
She's already been caught red-handed
and she's keeping this story up
because she thinks that I'm gonna be too embarrassed
to admit it to my new boyfriend that I had been catfished,
that she could get away with it.
I told the FBI one thing at the end.
I said, if you ever get her on anything
and you want to arrest her, I want to be there.
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