Over and over, for at least 18 years, Delashmit has played the puppet master, calculating each lie and directing each narrative like her own small, pathetic god.
On camera, Delashmit seemed tickled by the opportunity to tell her story, and to have her makeup professionally done and her medium-length wavy chestnut hair styled straight
Phil show, where furious victims from both Camp Summit and the breast cancer con confronted her. When Dr. Phil pointed out that perhaps remorse would be a preferable reaction to amusement, Delashmit followed his cues. She agreed when Dr. Phil asked her if she considers herself “deviously manipulative.” But she also couldnt avoid turning herself into the object of misfortune by blaming her problems on a lying addiction, and stating that shes just “a really lonely person.”
But the Dr. “Shes been at this a very long time in multiple communities,” says Andrea Smith, who has been chasing Delashmit since 2006. “Its terrifying.” Smith has long moderated a support community for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a severe form of muscular dystrophy that is rare in adults (children with SMA typically do not make it far beyond their second birthday). “We were burying children left and right at the time I discovered this community,” she says.
Phil episode was just the tip of the iceberg
Smith first encountered Delashmit through an online community called SMA Support (a group independent of Smiths own online community), where Delashmit posted as two different women: “Megan” (the name of a high school classmate of hers), and “Connie,” a woman who was supposedly the mother of a child with SMA (in reality, Connie is Delashmits mothers name). (more…)