What. The. Eff.
Y’all keep in mind Martin Shkreli? The hedge funder who purchased the rights to a obligatory AIDS remedy and raised the value over 5,000%?? The so-called “Pharma Bro” caught round as one in every of society’s most objectively terrible individuals for a pair years, finally being convicted in 2017 on fraud fees unrelated to that preliminary value hike. Surprising that somebody who would gouge costs on life-saving remedy for susceptible individuals would ALSO flout the legislation, proper?
Anyhoo, a pair years in the past he popped up within the information AGAIN when a Bloomberg journalist masking his story FELL IN LOVE with him, confirming in December 2020 that she’d left her marriage and her job with a purpose to date the federal prisoner. Then he dumped her shortly after when she gave an interview to Elle about it. After which she gave interviews about that.
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That ought to have been the top of Christie Smythe‘s quarter-hour of fame, proper?
Effectively, for some purpose she stored speaking about it. She’s slowly self-publishing a memoir in regards to the relationship, short-lived although it may need been, on Substack. It’s referred to as SMIRK. And over the weekend she gave one more high-profile interview in regards to the relationship. Spilling to the Sunday Instances in regards to the uncommon state of affairs, she admitted:
“I don’t assume I used to be interested in him initially. Effectively, possibly. It was extra of a curiosity. I used to be not interested by him as a romantic topic.”
No, she was an ideal skilled. However his sheer animal magnetism did finally trigger her to go away her financier hubby and abandon her journalistic integrity so far him. She recalled:
“I used to be feeling extraordinarily annoyed by having to maintain every thing bottled up. I used to be simply, like, ‘Everyone seems to be so frightened about what? That I’ll fall in love with him?’ After that thought sunk in, I used to be like, ‘ what, possibly I do love him — screw everybody.’”
Sure! Courting out of spite, all the time an awesome philosophy! Don’t let anybody inform YOU to not date a horrible vulture who makes cash off of exploiting the vulnerabilities of sick individuals! Consider in your self! You are able to do something! LOLz!
After all, she selected to see the great in Shkreli, saying he took her writing profession severely, one thing that was “very flattering.” She says whereas she wasn’t allowed to have intercourse with him — he was in jail their complete relationship, after all — that they had nice conversations about “books, science, prescription drugs, crypto, household, hopes and desires.”
Can’t assist however discover that “crypto” comes earlier than “household” and “hopes and desires.” Shocker. She informed the paper:
“We have been by no means at a loss for something to say. We have been all the time making one another chuckle.”
Issues actually went improper when the pandemic hit — and she or he was not longer capable of go to him. She made due with telling Elle in regards to the relationship — and getting dumped as a direct end result. The cartoonish little villain of a person truly broke up along with her by means of his remark to the journal of their profile, saying via a rep:
“Mr Shkreli needs Ms Smythe the very best of luck in her future.”
Effing savage.
Regardless of that, she continued to — and continues to — defend him!
As just lately as Monday afternoon on social media she was blasting criticism of the connection and of her newest interview — which she gave regardless of having a brand new boyfriend now. Sure, she’s moved on and but… refuses to maneuver on? We guess she’s within the camp that claims no press is dangerous press? Hey, we will perceive that half not less than.
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She’s truly going full martyr on Twitter although, saying the assaults on her decisions are exhibiting an absence of empathy to prisoners and their family members. She wrote:
“‘WHY does she preserve telling this loopy story?’
Effectively, there may be one good purpose: There are thousands and thousands individuals with family members in jail who face stigma, abuse, and all kinds of negatives only for caring about somebody who dedicated against the law. That’s improper. Full cease.”
She later added:
“And simply so as to add: If you’re attempting to say my state of affairs is ‘distinctive’ and never like all of the others…no, it’s not. Each story of somebody with a beloved one in jail is messy and complex and distinctive in its personal method. These are all particular person, compelling HUMAN tales.”
LOLz, she actually interviewed him as a result of of what he’d achieved. She went in, eyes open, with the context that this was somebody doing nice hurt on the earth. And she or he needs to make like he’s Jean Valjean. OK, gurl. You retain doing you. Good luck with the brand new relationship.
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