{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Could Jesse Ridgway’s Pregnancy Announcement Be Another Stunt?","description":"Ashley Ridgway is either a participant in a staged hoax or a real woman whose husband turned the worst week of her life into a media tour. Either way, a psychotherapist has something to say about the dynamic she’s living in. Jesse Ridgway has spent twenty years fabricating events and presenting them as real — staged family violence that generated a billion views and over a thousand 911 calls, a creator platform that reportedly collected a million users before being sold as an NFT. And now a pregnancy announcement that follows the exact same pattern as everything he’s ever done.\n\nPsychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines what Jesse Ridgway’s record looks like through a clinical framework called Munchausen by Internet — a pattern where individuals fabricate crises online to collect attention and sympathy. She looks at the escalation, the role Ashley is playing in this, and what it tells you about a person that a Down syndrome baby is something they’d reach for as a prop — real or fabricated.\n\nJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod\n\nThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.\n\n#JesseRidgway #McJuggerNuggets #PsychoSeries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #InfluencerExposed #Narcissism #StoryFire #Exposed #MunchausenByInternet","author_name":"Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5040505-hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43691519/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}