Review here: The Woman Who Wasn't There - Variety
Sounds fascinating and infuriating; she seems to be an emotionally unstable troll with serious issues. I can’t really hate her, I assume she is just nertz. I’ll be watching!
From the snippets I’ve seen of her, she reminded me a lot of Kathy Bush from South Florida some years ago. Both struck me as heavyset, frumpy women, who were using a situation (the 9-11 attacks and Munchausen’s by proxy, respectively) as a way to garner some attention that they wouldn’t normally be getting. But that could just be coincidental.
I’ve got the DVR set to record it. It looks like it will be great, BUT…ID chanell has an annoying style with their programs.
The man who did the film was on Dr. Phil awhile back. I didn’t catch the whole episode, so I don’t know what damage the woman did, by falsely claiming to be a 9/11 victim. Apparently she befriended other victims, helped raise money, etc. What else? I ended up feeling almost sorry for her. She must be unbalanced, and there’s Dr. Phil on national TV making her out to be completely despicable.
Hence the reason I hate Dr. Phil. I honestly think he’s probably caused more problems than he’s solved.
This looks very interesting, but what is ID?
Yow, that was something. It is hard to hate her, she is obviously kind of nuts and has Munchausen’s Syndrome. But *some *of her ex-friends still hate her!
Note to the director: *put some kind of background behind your subtitles! *More than half of them were completely unreadable.
Fascinating! Thanks for posting about this. I think she had a pathological need for attention, perhaps triggered by her father’s disgrace.
OK, I finally got around to watching this on my DVR–and my Kathy Bush analogy was pretty close. I actually got a few chuckles out of this doc. Every time the woman was supposed to be interviewed, she’d go nuts. (That did not happen onscreen in this doc, though. Other interviewees related those stories.)