That one annoyed me a little, but not nearly as much as Leandra Ramm and her story. I felt like she was using it as a way to try to promote herself because she would randomly pretend to hold a phone and completely go nuts in order to immitate her stalker, lol. (She's an opera singer/actress in case you wondered. I've never even heard of her.) And she was SO dramatic about every single detail. Here's the gist of her story.
-Guy from Singapore pretends he's a manager for a music festival in Singapore and offers to help her with her career.
-she's excited for a good 10 mins of the show, and somehow finds out he's not legit because of a letter sends or something random.
-he calls her cell phone and she answers it EVERY TIME (apparently opera singer cell phones didn't have caller id in the early 2000's. Eye roll) and she cries a lot. He also emails her and calls and sends letters to her and her family threatening to kill them all if she doesn't converse with him.
-after 3 or 4 years of cyberstalking, she decides to agree to talk to him regularly so that he will stop CYBERSTALKING her. She then admits that he completely stopped the threats after that.
-even though he is obviously harmless as far as physically harming her, and hasn't threatened her in a year, she has to escape it all by taking a job on a cruise ship. At this time, she gets the guts to ignore one of their chat dates.
-he calls her cell the same evening and SHE ANSWERED IT again.
-he says he knows she's on a cruise. She freaks out and insists that he's followed her on this ship, despite the fact he's never physically shown any sign that he's been around her for 6 straight years.
-she is sick of it all and decides to end it by SENDING AN EMAIL that says, "game over." And guess what? It all stopped.
-however, she finally decided to hire a forensic detective and he eventually found out it really was a 38 yr old man from Singapore and he pleads guilty to cyber stalking and international threatening and goes to jail for 3 years.
Yeah. That's the story. I don't take stalking lightly at all, but something tells me that a normal person would never allow someone across the globe to cyberstalk them for 6 years. Surely after enough time it would click that there have never been any physical signs of him, and there's likely never going to be. Her story has to be extremely embellished or she's just a huge drama queen.
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Blue_Leaf
10 years ago
Thank you for writing what I was thinking the entire time I watched episode five.
Leandra seems to be a woman who needs to be in the lime-light, whatever the cost. She would sneak in narcissistic comments about her talents and even her genetic superiority in between telling the story of being stalked for six years. I also thought that the creators of this particular episode portrayed the stalker in a racist manner. His portrayal was based on fiction to a large percent and the constant sweating only added to the lack of authenticity of the episode.
The points you made regarding this episode are all right on the mark, especially the fact that she came across as a "drama queen". I didn't think this show could get any worse until I listened to Leandra Ramm ramble on for 45 minutes. I hope I never get a phone call from her. I would immediately hang up and change my phone number.
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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flipflopseveryday
10 years ago
That episode was so fvcking stupid. I HATED how they'd put the stalker in the shots all theatrical like and spewing stupid sh*t and touching the actors. I don't remember any of the other episodes being so dramatic and ridiculous? And yeah, her squeezing in how much talent she has and how her parents got their petri dish from a genius sperm bank was super annoying. She was only there to self promote. Lol @ her imitating her stalker too, holding an imaginary phone and screaming into it. I thought I hated epi 4, 5 was worse!
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slidell333
8 years ago
LOL at the last few responses to that episode...so true. And I also found it a little racist and just silly (the scenes with the stalker). Like he sat in a laundry room peeing in glass jars all day stroking a doll he made of her made from pillows and horse hair...a little TOO much of a string on that kite. They made it out like she was world famous. I think she probably blew it way WAY out if proportion to get self-promotion. Like an above posted noted, not taking stalking lightly but just seems a little fishy. GAME OVER.
Dave "Crown Time" Blankenship for Time Man of the Year.
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