Jack Monroe #327 Three and a half stars on Wikifeet

[Into_the_tunnel]

Am I real or is Jack real?

I had met Louisa a few times. She was lovely. She seemed calm and stable. Very competent. But she didn't like everything being posted on social media and being referred to it on there constantly.

Yes, Jack was a mess when she left. I think it was both Louisa leaving and also losing the life Jack thought she was going to have with Louisa. She didn't hide that she thought it would bring her success and connections. She was in love with the idea of being married to Louisa and Louisa's job.

The thing with Jack is that if her partners had plans that didn't involve her you could guarantee she'd have a mental health crisis as soon as they'd gone out. So every time they would have to leave their friends to go back and look after her. It soon got tiring for them. She didn't like them having social lives without her and got jealous. An ex of hers described her as suffocating.

Is Jack real. . Sometimes this place makes me wonder if she is just a figment of all of our imaginations.

I have to admit that is really sad about L. Whatever we say about Jack, losing a long term love at that time must have been devastating .

 

[I’MBUSY!]

She looks like she’s lost her followers. Can they be reinstated later?

ETA: no they’re there, just not in the number heading (which says she has two followers )

 

[Spooons]

Haven’t gone thru thread so apols if someone else mentioned it but last night was the Guild of Food Writers awards & That Man turned up in person to award St Delia of the cookbooks a lifetime achievement award. Jack isn’t a member (you have to be nominated by others). Might explain the deactivating.

 

[Dogmuck]

Am I real or is Jack real?

I had met Louisa a few times. She was lovely. She seemed calm and stable. Very competent. But she didn't like everything being posted on social media and being referred to it on there constantly.

Yes, Jack was a mess when she left. I think it was both Louisa leaving and also losing the life Jack thought she was going to have with Louisa. She didn't hide that she thought it would bring her success and connections. She was in love with the idea of being married to Louisa and Louisa's job.

The thing with Jack is that if her partners had plans that didn't involve her you could guarantee she'd have a mental health crisis as soon as they'd gone out. So every time they would have to leave their friends to go back and look after her. It soon got tiring for them. She didn't like them having social lives without her and got jealous. An ex of hers described her as suffocating.

Everything you’re saying is pretty much what has been speculated on here. Thanks for confirming, it’s nice to know that we are not a bunch of conspiracy ninnies.

 

[Veronicaaa]

She looks like she’s lost her followers. Can they be reinstated later?

It just takes a while for them to show up after reactivation.

 

[ReginaPhalangee]

I had met Louisa a few times. She was lovely. She seemed calm and stable. Very competent. But she didn't like everything being posted on social media and being referred to it on there constantly.

The stuff she used to tweet about Louisa was horrid. Like I remember when she did daily kitchen live and she was blaming Louisa for her faulty internet connection and going on about her watching tv too loud. Such nasty little digs

 

[BeautifulTrauma]

Matt Tebbutt is coming to visit a town near me for a food festival.

I’m 100% going to find him and ask him how he felt about working with JM

 

[trueblue222]

Am I real or is Jack real?

I had met Louisa a few times. She was lovely. She seemed calm and stable. Very competent. But she didn't like everything being posted on social media and being referred to it on there constantly.

Yes, Jack was a mess when she left. I think it was both Louisa leaving and also losing the life Jack thought she was going to have with Louisa. She didn't hide that she thought it would bring her success and connections. She was in love with the idea of being married to Louisa and Louisa's job.

The thing with Jack is that if her partners had plans that didn't involve her you could guarantee she'd have a mental health crisis as soon as they'd gone out. So every time they would have to leave their friends to go back and look after her. It soon got tiring for them. She didn't like them having social lives without her and got jealous. An ex of hers described her as suffocating.

Absolutely not surprising. Was obvious to people that Jack loved the attention being with Louisa got her. That's interesting about being jealous of her partners pals. Jack did mention louisa having to come home from nights out and picking her off the floor. She sounds like a nightmare to be in a relationship with full stop

If she was like this with Louisa I bet she was like this with Allegra. I would also like to know why Louisa left. Not from Jack's ex pal but posting SHE LEFT on twitter basically puts blame on Louisa and that's not fair.

 

[von89]

I'm also confused about her rabbit. The rabbit was young when she got it. She told me so! I dont know why she now says it was old. She fed it a poor diet and kept it alone in a hutch. She got it on an impulse. I hadn't known the rabbit had died because she never mentioned the rabbit.

I had to distance myself from her during the kitten fiasco. I told myself she was so hellbent to save it because she was projecting onto it about herself. But it was cruel.

 

[Lazarus]

Am I real or is Jack real?

I had met Louisa a few times. She was lovely. She seemed calm and stable. Very competent. But she didn't like everything being posted on social media and being referred to it on there constantly.

Yes, Jack was a mess when she left. I think it was both Louisa leaving and also losing the life Jack thought she was going to have with Louisa. She didn't hide that she thought it would bring her success and connections. She was in love with the idea of being married to Louisa and Louisa's job.

The thing with Jack is that if her partners had plans that didn't involve her you could guarantee she'd have a mental health crisis as soon as they'd gone out. So every time they would have to leave their friends to go back and look after her. It soon got tiring for them. She didn't like them having social lives without her and got jealous. An ex of hers described her as suffocating.

I’m not surprised by this at all. The other day when she said about her relationship breaking down, I thought she was sadder at the loss of having someone rather than having Harold a specific person in her life.
I think she likes the idea of being in a relationship and that is more appealing than the person themselves. Louisa’s lifestyle, opportunities and connections were probably as much of a loss to Jack as Louisa herself.
She comes across as if she would be very suffocating in a relationship, which of course comes down to her own insecurity I’m sure.

 

[ReginaPhalangee]

Matt Tebbutt is coming to visit a town near me for a food festival.

I’m 100% going to find him and ask him how he felt about working with JM

could you…could you ask him to roll up his sleeves? Please?

 

[trueblue222]

I'm also confused about her rabbit. The rabbit was young when she got it. She told me so! I dont know why she now says it was old. She fed it a poor diet and kept it alone in a hutch. She got it on an impulse. I hadn't known the rabbit had died because she never mentioned the rabbit.

I had to distance myself from her during the kitten fiasco. I told myself she was so hellbent to save it because she was projecting onto it about herself. But it was cruel.

Because she's a liar who got called out on twitter over getting a new dog when Dash was dead. So Dash had to be an old well loved rabbit who died of old age. Completely unsurprising to hear that she neglected the rabbit

She has very poor impulse control and has no concept of appropriate boundaries either in my view.

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

My username is unconnected to my own name or age, don't worry! But thank you for the concern and warning. I had been unsure about posting to begin with because Jack can be quite vicious and malicious to people, so I'm being careful.

I met Jack after she had published her first book.

To start off with I did sometimes privately question what she would say, but then tell myself off for it and tell myself to be kind. I'd remind myself she has PTSD and various stuff that can affect how she remembers the timelines of stuff, because that's what she had said.

But things didn't always add up. Her story changes depending on who/what she's telling her story for. Over time I learnt she'd left out bits of her story and exaggerated some of it. I eventually began to suspect she was using aspects of other people's lives to craft her own background. I had met her family and brought up things with them - they had entirely different versions of things and no knowledge of other things.

Yes, she does go on about being poor. For a while I believed her and felt dreadful for her. I struggle financially and thought we were in similar circumstances. She did go through a period of financial hardship and that did muck up things like her credit rating, but she is not poor now.
It made me very uncomfortable to see her getting people to donate money to her on social media (generally these people were also struggling and giving what little they had). She'd have spent the day going on about how she was struggling to survive and can't afford essentials. But she would also be going on spending sprees at the same time. She also has family to fall back on.

I'm disabled and have serious health problems. Jack wasn't (to my knowledge) when we first met. But each time I got a new diagnosis (and other people did), not long after Jack would post on social media about having that exact same condition. But she hadn't told any of her friends about it. It felt off. Also, a mild toothache would become a cracked tooth without having seen a dentist. Joint pain became RA without having seen a specialist... She'd google symptoms and then start calling herself autistic etc. Yet it takes a long time to get that diagnosis.

She constantly had to one-up people with their health problems, like it was a competition. I noticed she'd post things to elicit sympathy regarding her health shortly following being queried or challenged about something by a friend or person in her life. Or to get them to reply to her (posting sad unwell photos/ vague posts about serious possible health problems when particular person(s) had fallen out with her...)

I started to realise that Jack didn't care about her friends. It often felt like she only cared about what people can do for her. You'd spend time with her and realise afterwards it had all been about her.
She had many acquaintances. She does have friends - but not many and her friendships don't last. She mainly has people that will say yes to her and tell her how wonderful she is/ how hard her life is.
If you try and call her out on something or question something or tell her she's in the wrong/crossed a line then it's an attack and becomes confrontational. She brings up her PTSD, rape, and all manner of things to win the argument and shut down the question.

No, I've never gifted her expensive items. Just regular Christmas gifts. I don't know if she actually ever was gifted anything. She would always be vague about who had given her things and refuse to say who the generous person was. I heavily suspected she buys them herself.

Thank you dear heart, can’t imagine how difficult it’d be to have the triggering rants we only see on Twitter spat at you in person. Not sure why I’m surprised or shocked to learn that she does that

Oh god and the partner stuff is even worse. Heaven forbid if this is the impact she’s having on grown adults what her poor son is going through.

 

[Geetbo]

could you…could you ask him to roll up his sleeves? Please?

Or get his cock out.

 

[Marmalade Atkins]

 

[Powershower]

Matt Tebbutt is coming to visit a town near me for a food festival.

I’m 100% going to find him and ask him how he felt about working with JM

Can’t decide what would be better, a story about her lingering honk, or “who?”

 

[ReginaPhalangee]

The stuff about poor Dash makes me so sad, but I think it needs to be put out there especially by people who know her. @von89 like others have said it’s really helpful to know that she’s like this off Twitter and that we aren’t just reading too much into her tweets or making stuff up

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

Matt Tebbutt is coming to visit a town near me for a food festival.

I’m 100% going to find him and ask him how he felt about working with JM

Obviously I am not bothered (suspect you might not be either ) but some people might want to know if he smells nice.

 

[Helatruralhome]

So she's basically got Munchausen Syndrome. Diagnosing herself for attention and over exaggeration of things she does have wrong.

This is everything that's wrong with social media. You have a bell end like her faking illnesses to over 500k people now and getting away with it for years.

And of course she couldn't just have PTSD. No she has to be a sex worker and work in a brothel and be the victim of ..... bleeping everything. She does my nut in

It looks more like malingering than Munchausens as she's actively trying and benefiting from the falsehoods she's spouting- or at least that's what it looks like m'lud

 

[Fitnessqueen]

Am I being boring to predict she will show up at Glasto as planned, any dog queries will be batted away with "she's being looked after by an amazing friend" and the squigs will be happy ever after?