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A heads up to our listeners.

This episode includes descriptions of gun violence and mentions of suicide.

Please listen with care.

Sachi, I need to know, have you either been a huge fan girl of someone, or have you been in the crosshairs of a fan base?

I know the answer to at least one of these questions.

Which one do you know the answer for?

Crosshairs. You're in the crosshairs of everything.

I unfortunately have been a fan girl, and I have been in the crosshairs.

I understand all of this intimately, yes. Sorry, who were you a fan girl and I have been in the crosshairs. I understand all of this intimately, yes.

Sorry, who were you a fan girl of?

I, it's hard to say.

You're only allowed to ask me one question per episode.

That's in our contract.

I mean, I do think you haven't lived until a bunch of fans of whatever pop star haven't sent you death threats.

Yeah, I wrote a profile of a music artist named Redacted.

And then they're redacted, redacted, my redacted.

I remember this, yep, yep.

I mean, I do think stands are kind of scary.

They're willing to go to great lengths to be as close as possible

to their favorite celebrities. And today, I'm going to tell you about a woman who scammed her way

into joining the inner circle of a beloved pop star, resulting in an extremely tragic ending.

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