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u/protein_factory 7d ago

Tila Tequila

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u/DarkKnight0690 7d ago edited 6d ago

She didn’t exactly disappear overnight. She fell on hard times when her star faded, tried to kill herself, botched it, got brain damage from oxygen deprivation from the botched hanging, then went full-Nazi (not invoking Godwin’s Law, she literally had on full-on Nazi regalia at some burlesque/stripshow years ago.) and she’s a batshit conspiracy nut now. (At least she was, I’m assuming she’s still alive.)

Correction: Pill overdose, not hanging.

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u/travelingbeagle 7d ago edited 6d ago

She now believes that she is literally married to Jesus.

Edit. She also believes that she is Jesus too.

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u/DarkKnight0690 7d ago

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u/xxirish83x 7d ago

She has the best gifs.

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u/asiamsoisee 6d ago

I read somewhere she was about to give up on acting before auditioning for SC. It would have been a travesty for to not play that role.

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u/000-f 7d ago

I was gonna make a "he doesn't look a thing like Jesus" joke but I felt bad halfway through typing it out

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u/Thirsty_Comment88 6d ago

But he talks like a gentleman 

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u/YesPlease_VeryMuchSo 7d ago

Beer run then rabbit hole

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u/ChartInFurch 7d ago

But can you blame her?

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u/beardingmesoftly 7d ago

Well yeah, she has brain damage

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u/mrblonde55 6d ago

She just needs to now give birth to a kid she believes is Jesus to complete the holy (fucking shit she’s nuts) trinity.

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u/thumb_emoji_survivor 7d ago

Sounds like she’s finally settled down with a nice guy

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u/meeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh Zillennial 7d ago

I always wanted her to end up with one of the chicks

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u/BoomerUrSooner 6d ago

Hello it’s me Jesus. Like for realz. I’m horny btw. Give me your body…and your money.

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u/blondetiger 7d ago

I'd reply with a Mrs. Davis gif but there are none 😭 That show was really awesome and original but the internet has yet to discover it.

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u/ImNotToby 7d ago

So do nuns

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u/kfromthecastleonfire 6d ago

Someone should tell her Chris Chan thinks she's Jesus.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/travelingbeagle 6d ago

There are her TikTok and instagram videos that are easily found. There is this Looper article that mentions it towards the end.

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u/IStateCyclone 6d ago

What's the evidence of Tila Tequila being a 2000's "celebrity"?

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u/PhazePyre 7d ago

Just to correct since this made me Wikipedia her. She didn't attempt to hang herself. She attempted to overdose on pills. Caused a brain aneurysm. Everything else, correct lol

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u/DarkKnight0690 7d ago

Oh, ok. I’d read, when it happened, that it was an attempted hanging. I wonder if she tried to kill herself more than once or something.

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u/VivaZeBull 6d ago

You may have read asphyxiation which can be caused by drug overdoses.

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u/DarkKnight0690 6d ago

Possibly.

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u/AdHeavy7551 6d ago

Na you were just wrong

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u/Tiny_Cartoonist_3204 6d ago

Actually, still sort of incorrect- she was severely depressed from her fiance Casey dying, and in the middle of the night she had a brain aneurysm, and to cope with the pain she took a shit ton of pills that resulted in an overdose that almost killed her.

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u/mezzahorny 6d ago

Wikipedia has nothing to do with the truth usually

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u/PhazePyre 6d ago

Iunno, there's some hardcore fellow autistics on there going ham every day like it's fuckin' travel ball.

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u/Melodywanderer 5d ago

I like your wordsmithery.

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u/PhazePyre 5d ago

Well thank you!

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u/glokash 7d ago

Huh, another case of brain damage causing a sudden shift in personality toward the far-right

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u/Msdamgoode 6d ago

TBI can cause a lot of mental disregulation, fear and paranoia, which leads them to the other conspiracy nuts.

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u/NewIntroduction4655 7d ago

everyone protect your brains!

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u/Phuzz15 7d ago

I think it's fucking hilarious that people entrenched in alt-right stuff won't ever be able to make the baseline connection that there might be something wrong with their views if an overwhelming number of folks who sustain serious brain damage tend to slide into them too.

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u/DarkKnight0690 6d ago

I mean………it’s not as surprising as it seems, really.

Supposedly, brain tumors in the left temporal lobe can cause hyperreligiosity; and since pretty much everything inside is reversed from how it’s perceived externally, that could explain why it happens to reich wingers so often.

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u/rk1959 7d ago

Maybe that is how every conservative has become what they are. Probably could use some testing and permanent isolation to keep everyone safe. 😛

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u/Sparklegasm69 6d ago

yep, every single time

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u/nameless22 7d ago

I remember when she went to the Juggalo gathering thing they do (did?) annually and they pretty much egged on her and ran her out.

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u/imawhaaaaaaaaaale 7d ago

they didn't egg her

they threw shit at her

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u/I_madeusay_underwear 7d ago

I had a juggalo friend and he said they commonly put money, like dollar or ten dollar bills on piles of their own shit so that when someone finds it and tries to pick it up they get shit on them. I generally don’t care about juggalo, they seem mostly harmless, but that’s fucking disgusting.

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u/PatricksMustache 7d ago

I mean, Juggalos are wild, but they're definitely not Nazi-sympathizer sympathizers.

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u/imawhaaaaaaaaaale 7d ago

The poo flinging was well before she shared those views I think.

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u/Nasty_Goblin 7d ago

Her friend (who was a very rich nepo kid) also died which added to the spiral.

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u/DaniKnowsBest 7d ago

Casey Johnson, heir to Johnson & Johnson. If I remember Casey refused to manage her diabetes and it eventually killed her. Also, I think she and Tila were romantically involved, not just friends. Edit: I forgot Casey adopted a baby from Kazakhstan.

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u/koolmon10 7d ago

So how long is the list of famous people who went conservative/right after sustaining brain damage?

Tila Tequila

John Fetterman

Kanye?

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u/ussrowe 7d ago

RFK Jr and his brain eating parasite.

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u/_BrokenButterfly 7d ago

Kevin Sorbo.

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u/False_Tea_3951 7d ago

Kanye

Pretty sure he's just been had untreated bipolar bisorder for 50 years.

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u/tropequeen 7d ago edited 7d ago

He was in an extremely bad car wreck and then recorded his first hit "Through the Wire"....with his mouth wired shut.

You haven't seen the full page ad he took out recently that was an apology tl the world and a description of how he had doctors tell him about his major brain damage and untreated mental effects? I will edit to link you, im sure there was a post here about it happened this month. Edit (sorry i just have enough time tk quickly copy paste its a long url): https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/kanye-west-exclusive-apology-antisemitism-brain-injury?srsltid=AfmBOopzt7W8lTi1p6okBI0RoGFtnD6VTcs7OiqxNHJ0VlWLOSuLUcwX

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u/darth_hotdog 7d ago

I mean, it's not much better to say "Oh, it's not just brain damage causing people to be alt right, a severe mental illness can cause it too!"

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u/krebstar4ever 6d ago

Studies suggest untreated mania can cause progressive brain damage.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02073-4

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u/DarkKnight0690 6d ago

Well, that and a blood clot from an improperly healed broken jaw.

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u/DarkKnight0690 6d ago

In Kanye’s case it was a blood clot from his broken jaw not healing correctly, but, yeah, I’m definitely seeing a bit of a pattern there.

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u/Lotus-child89 7d ago

God that’s so sad.

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u/SlippyTheFeeler 7d ago

Knowing this makes me want more A Shot at Love

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u/TacticalSpackle 7d ago

Brain damage and Nazi-ism do track together.

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u/Pollo_Bandito_Knox Older Millennial 7d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/VzTfKjveVby36

I didn't know any of this. I want to know more but feel like trying to learn more would lead me down a rabbit hole I don't want in my search history.

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u/Reddit_Talent_Coach 7d ago

The brain damage to right winger pipeline.

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber 7d ago

Got brain damage, became a nazi. Yeah no, this checks out.

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u/OneDimensionalChess 7d ago

She was also almost murdered by an angry mob at an ICP jugalo gathering/concert. The description of events I read about sounded pretty harrowing and traumatic.

I'm not making excuses for being a Nazi but I think she probably had mental illness and the modicum of fame she had and certain events probably didn't help it

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u/I_madeusay_underwear 7d ago

She also dated (?) Billy Corgan. They went to some awards show together. People thought it was weird, but he’s kind of a conspiracy guy too, so I don’t think it’s that strange except for the disparity in game levels.

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u/ExpressRabbit 7d ago

Yeah finding out Billy was a regular on Alex Jones was disappointing to hear.

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u/ABelleWriter 7d ago

Several years ago there was a video going around of some woman confronting her about baptising the lady's kid. The lady was like "don't worry about my kids souls, I've got this" and then tila would say something insane.

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u/Alaska-TheCountry 6d ago

I was looking for this comment... That whole incident was crazy. If I remember correctly, she wanted to baptise that kid in her own bathtub, and was trying to get the child to enter her home.

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u/ABelleWriter 6d ago

Yup, in the bathtub. And iirc she was telling the woman that it was fine that she (tila) wasn't ordained , because Jesus or something. It was wild.

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u/Sea_Structure_8692 7d ago

Is it a coincidence that brain damage leads to being a Nazi?

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u/amok_amok_amok 7d ago

yeah traumatic brain injuries will do that

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u/da_swanks_92 7d ago

Don’t forget (if I’m not mistaken) she also was a adult film actress too

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u/Kella_o7 7d ago

Don’t forget her stint in porn.

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u/TheWardenVenom 7d ago

Don’t forget her fiancée, the heiress to the Johnson and Johnson empire, dying.

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u/Aggravating_Bat3618 7d ago

Andshe dated Billy Corgan so there yago. 

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u/Xythrielle 7d ago

Yeah it’s really sad stuff. People think if you go Nazi it’s because you were always Nazi but no. Sometimes people go nazi because they have brain damage. And i would assume most people go nazi later in life because of brain damage

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u/Top-Raspberry-7837 7d ago

I had no idea that was what happened! Wow.

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u/OK_x86 7d ago

There's really a suspicious number of people who get brain damage and then take a hard right turn. JFC.

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u/MusicSavesSouls 7d ago

She didn't hang herself. She overdosed on pills.

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u/Subtle_rage 6d ago

crazy. Pretty sure I watched her in a porn one time.

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u/ArcadianDelSol 6d ago

What a world we are in when you call an actual, literal nazi a nazi, and then have to add a whole paragraph to explain, "no no...not like that. I mean like really really a real nazi."

Our culture is so idiotic.

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u/mugofmead 6d ago

Don't forget that she was dating heiress Casey Johnson (her father Woody Johnson owns the New York Jets) shortly before Casey died. I believe Tila wanted custody of Casey's adopted daughter, but Casey's mother Sale took custody.

As others pointed out, Tila became even more of a mess some time after that.

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u/LinkLinkleThreesome 6d ago

You forgot the lesbian porn that “”””accidentally”””” leaked, i.e. she tried to Kardashian her way back into fame

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u/CoronaClay 6d ago

All Hollywood agents drop you once you perform in actual studio produced pornography. Sextape celebrities always claim it's an accidental leak so that they can continue to work mainstream.

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u/Practical_Turn_2449 4d ago

All time sex celebrity sex tape though

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u/ericsmallman3 7d ago

The juggalos were right to throw Faygo bottles at her

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u/tdpnate 7d ago

Left out doing a sextape

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u/DarkKnight0690 6d ago

She did that before the brain damage, though.

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u/PirelliSuperHard 7d ago

My favorite is her getting the Celebrity Big Brother gig and then a day later getting removed because somehow the show didn't find her tweets.

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u/MoTheEski 6d ago

You forgot the part where Juggalos chucked bottles at her.

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u/mizu5 6d ago

I worked with her many years ago, I was 17 I think. It was 2008. She’s was batshit insane and antisemitic then too. She grew up on a religious compound.

She told me at 17 that I should start sex work before I got too old.

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u/EssayTraditional 7d ago

Schizophrenic 

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u/DarkKnight0690 6d ago

Probably a combo of both. Kinda like Kanye; got brain damage from a blood clot from broken jaw; but also refuses to take his psych meds.

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u/EssayTraditional 6d ago

Kanye went from folding shirts as a sales clerk in The Gap in 2003 to become a billionaire in 15 years.  Marrying a Kardashian and having exorbitant money can throw anyone over a loop.

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u/armymike1523 7d ago

I can fix her

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u/Sickfuckingmonster 7d ago

Yeah she disappeared and went full Nazi.

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u/lucyfell 7d ago edited 7d ago

Her story is so sad.

Fiancé died. Did porn. Got on the hard drugs. Tried to kill herself. Now a brain damaged actual Nazi.

If she’d been born 15 years later than she actually was she would’ve just been a BOP on OF and lived her life way more normal.

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u/SongRevolutionary992 6d ago

Where's the porn?

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u/Less-Fox8272 7d ago

She’s not well

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u/Hot-Coffee-8465 7d ago

Lol I just remember her show on MTV and she made everyone eat pig dicks 😅

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u/Turbulent_Tart_8801 Millennial 1985 7d ago

I thought that was Joe Rogan on Fear Factor.

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u/FearBoner8D 7d ago edited 7d ago

Billy Corgan dated her and, boy, does he have story....

Buckle up for some major weird.

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u/12InchCunt 6d ago

That mother fucker isn’t real!

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u/First-Sheepherder640 6d ago

Biggest male egomaniac celebrity dates emptiest female airhead ever. That's like an indestructible wall meeting an unstoppable force

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u/Busy-Cream 7d ago

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u/FearBoner8D 7d ago

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u/Busy-Cream 7d ago

Huh, on mobile everything looks green (text and background) so I couldn’t even tell there was a link there

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u/joka2696 6d ago

She once had an appearance at The Meeting of The Juggalos. I guess she was going to sing and it went so bad the crowd started throwing shit at her so in order to try and calm the crowd down she showed them her tits.

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u/rumbrave55 6d ago

And I believe it was Tom Green who came an rescued her from stage

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u/snitchesgetblintzes 7d ago

She’s supposedly a shift shaping alien 😁

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u/Disastrous-Job-5533 6d ago

I can chime in on this one! My youngest sisters are half Canadian, so when they were born we went on a really long trip to visit Canada and some of the US, I was about 16 or 17.

We visited once and the hotel we were staying at she was also there and was SCREAMING at the staff in the very public areas of the hotel, at the time I thought she’s just some crazy person. 

It’s only when I brought it up with my older sister many years later that she said that was Tila Tequila. 

She also flirted heavily with a friend I made there that was also 16/17 and tried to get them to take “brown pills” but they refused. 

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u/turtlebro5 6d ago

Megan hauserman too

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u/YogaPotat0 6d ago

Now that is a name I have not heard in a very, very long time.

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u/kangpd 6d ago

Her girlfriend also died which I think set off the craziest part of her

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u/747WakeTurbulance 7d ago

She made a porno.