Meet Scamanda

Scamanda

Lionsgate Sound

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 16.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian. A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest. But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know. She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world. Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret. Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and left a community in shock. Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret. New episodes every Monday. Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amanda C. Riley is a wife, a mother, a blogger, a teacher, a Christian, and Amanda C. Riley
0:12.2	is dying.
0:13.2	I remember her saying she's in pain, she couldn't get out of bed, it was heartbreaking.
0:21.9	She became an inspiration in her community, among celebrities and survivors across the
0:27.3	world.
0:28.7	She was putting out this blog like a weekly couple times a week, and it was really like
0:33.7	a soap opera.
0:34.7	It was very easy to get sucked into the writing of it.
0:38.5	She had very little time to live, to beautiful young boys, just making it seem very undeserving.
0:47.2	After being diagnosed with cancer, Amanda shared her rollercoaster journey on her high-profile
0:52.1	blog, catching the eye of thousands and thousands of followers.
0:56.7	I just relapsed again with no treatment, I'll maybe make it two to three months.
1:02.7	That was heart-wrenching, devastating.
1:05.0	It was so much back and forth, and you're healed, and then you're back, and then you're healed,
1:08.2	and then you're back.
1:09.8	Terminal miracle, terminal miracle.
1:13.4	She went from who knows how long to live.
1:17.5	Maybe she could die today, maybe she could die Tuesday.
1:21.5	Two.
1:23.0	Oh, she's in Tahoe, and now her biggest problem is that insurance isn't covering the
1:27.1	oxygen tank.
1:29.0	She's had been through all this chemotherapy, can't have kids.
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