TikToker Exposed for FAKING Cancer: Maddie Russo Sentenced in Fraudulent Scheme
True Crime with Kendall Rae
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We all have a fire inside us. It gives us energy and spirit to do the things we love. |
| 0:06.0 | Every morning we get to feed that fire and set ourselves up for the day with a warming |
| 0:10.8 | and satisfying bowl of Quaker oats. |
| 0:13.0 | Because when we feed it right, when it's fully ablaze, |
| 0:18.0 | we can take on anything the day might bring. |
| 0:20.0 | Feed more than just your body. |
| 0:24.6 | Feed the fire inside. |
| 0:27.6 | Quaker oats. Hello everyone and welcome back to True Crime with Kendall Ray. Thank you so much for joining me and if you are new, welcome. So today we have a case that so many of you have requested that I talk about. |
| 0:52.5 | And it's something that I have been following |
| 0:55.5 | since this story first broke. |
| 0:57.8 | I actually started doing updates on it |
| 1:00.1 | on my podcast, The Cess, which is a commentary and current events opinion |
| 1:05.9 | podcast so we did quite a bit of coverage on it there but I wanted to really dive in |
| 1:12.1 | and do a full overview. |
| 1:14.8 | Yet again, we are talking about someone who faked an illness, |
| 1:19.0 | someone who faked cancer, which I've covered |
| 1:21.2 | a few cases like this in the past year and it is just mind-blowing to me how many people do this and this time we're talking about |
| 1:29.7 | Maddie Russo who was also a tic-talker, and went to pretty extreme lengths to convince people that she had cancer. |
| 1:39.0 | Now, what's different between Maddie Russo and Elizabeth Finch, who I covered earlier this year, is she was |
| 1:47.1 | held accountable for her actions. Although some people argue that it wasn't quite enough of a punishment, but we will get into all of that. |
| 1:55.7 | But before we get into Maddie's story, I have just a tiny announcement. |
| 1:59.5 | I wanted to share that we have launched a new Neckmet Collection piece and I know so many of you have |
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