Jesse Ridgway Has Faked Everything Before. Why Would This Be Different?

About this episode

The episode explores Jesse Ridgway's history of fabricating events and the implications of his recent announcements.

Staged family violence for four years. A billion views. Over a thousand 911 calls from people who thought it was real. A creator platform that collapsed and got sold as an NFT. And now Jesse Ridgway announces a pregnancy, a Down syndrome diagnosis, and a termination to 4.3 million followers — and the world debates how he handled it instead of asking whether any of it happened. Jesse Ridgway’s entire career is built on fabricating events and presenting them as real. Each stunt pushes further than the last. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the clinical escalation — staged family violence to a failed platform to a fabricated pregnancy crisis involving a Down syndrome baby — and asks what drives someone to keep going darker. What makes a disability something this man would reach for as a prop? And if his wife Ashley is in on it, what does that tell you? If she’s not, what does that tell you about where she is? Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram…

People in this episode

Guest: Shavaun Scott

Topics covered

• fabrication
• mental health
• social media
• public perception
• disability
• crisis
• true crime

Keywords

• Jesse Ridgway
• fabrication
• Down syndrome
• pregnancy crisis
• social media stunts
• Shavaun Scott
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Real Story Media

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