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Waking Up to Hollywood's Predators: The Sociopath Behind the SFX | S2, E4


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04:40 – Setting the Intentions
09:45 – Trigger Warning: Sensitive Content Ahead
13:00 – (Part 1) My Story Begins
17:05 – Coachella Tickets Promise
19:49 – Oscars Offer
20:30 – Dubai Invitation
22:39 – Brunch & a Weekend in Canada
24:35 – Suspicious Airport Switch
26:40 – The Last Time I Saw Him
27:40 – The Emotional Pull-Away
28:46 – The Selfie Incident
31:14 – "She's in the Hospital"
32:10 – The Story of the "Dead Sister-in-Law"
33:35 – Twisted Explanations Unravel
35:45 – The Nephew: Another Layer to the Lies
37:45 – "Funeral Week"
38:30 – The Beginning of the End
40:50 – Ghosted the Day of Coachella
45:25 – Being Blocked
48:30 – (Part 2) More Victims Emerge
51:15 – Girlfriend #2, Lies Begin to Crumble
53:20 – What Really Happened in Canada
56:50 – "Funeral Week": San Diego and Las Vegas Exposed
58:10 – The Secret Child Revealed
59:00 – "Funeral Week" at Disneyland
59:31 – Girlfriend #2 Gets Blocked
59:59 – The Selfie Lie
1:00:18 – Fearing for the Safety of the Child
1:02:02 – (Part 3) It Gets Worse: 13+ Victims
1:04:00 – What Really Happened That Weekend: Ghosting 10+ In Person
1:05:00 – More Victims Come Forward
1:07:00 – Locked Out of Coachella
1:08:00 – The Apology Attempt
1:09:00 – Addressing the Empty Apology
1:16:00 – Lies About Accomplishments
1:20:00 – Addressing the Bigger Themes
1:36:00 – "Dear Cody"
1:37:00 – The Signs I Ignored
1:39:40 – The Choice Is His
1:43:00 – I’m Done
1:45:00 – Thank You: A Message to the Listeners


This isn’t just a story about lies.


It’s about predators in plain sight hiding behind charm and status.


And it’s about what happens when a woman stops second-guessing her intuition and starts telling the truth.


In this raw and revelatory episode, I pull back the curtain on a dangerous man I met through Hinge—someone who told me he worked in special effects for Hollywood films, only to unravel into a web of coercion, deception, and deeply dangerous sociopathic behavior.


What started as a whirlwind romance turned into a dark descent into gaslighting, love bombing, and psychological manipulation. 


I was lied to about everything—from age, to faking a tragic passing of a family member, Coachella tickets, a Dubai trip, from gym sessions that were actually sex parties, to carefully crafted alibis he used to juggle 10+ women in a single week.


Sometimes, 10+ women in a single day.


What I uncovered in the days that followed would expose even more disturbing truths: 

🔹 A secret world of high-end sex parties and a dangerous sex addiction 

🔹 A pattern of coercive behavior masked as intimacy 

🔹 Financial, emotional, and sexual exploitation 

🔹 Multiple women, all told they were “the only one,” all being manipulated & juggled in real-time


This episode isn’t about revenge. It’s about reclaiming narrative.


He expected silence.

What he got was a microphone.


I speak to the broader issues at play: coercion disguised as consent, the aftermath / psychological affects of being gaslit, women ignoring their intuition, and the strength it takes to rise and use your trauma as fuel to keep moving forward when someone has tried to erase your reality.


This is a wake-up call. For women. For survivors. For anyone who’s ever ignored a red flag and asked themselves “Was it my fault?”

This isn’t just my story. It’s a warning.

And it ends with me choosing Truth~ so another woman doesn’t have to bleed for it.

When one woman speaks the Truth, she cracks open the silence for all of us.


So, thank you.


To every woman who has screamed into silence and wasn’t believed.

To those who drowned in their truth because the world refused to hear it.

To the ones who rose anyway—and spoke, and roared, and lit the path with their pain turned power.

To everyone who reached out, who helped me piece this together, who reminded me I wasn’t crazy and that I wasn't alone.

And to every listener—who by witnessing this story, is empowering another woman to tell hers.


This is how we rise. Together.

It's our time to Wake Up.

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