To the people who read her blog and attended her church, Amanda C. Riley was a beautiful, young wife and mother who managed to live her life with hope and faith even as she was dying of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

But who was the real Amanda? 

The story of how this beguiling woman deceived and betrayed countless supporters, including many of her closest friends, is so compelling, Charlie Webster’s 2023 “Scamanda” was the most downloaded and shared podcast, world-wide, on Apple that year, since sparking a 2025 Hulu docuseries.

In Part 1 of this fascinating podcast, we first introduce you to the carefully-crafted persona Amanda showed to the world, then take you behind the scenes to meet the real Amanda C. Riley.

Listen (and follow!) on your favorite app or Scandal Water Podcast YouTube channel. 

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