If her stupidity hurt only herself nobody would care but she's serving this drivel to her gullible followers as well and I really hope she stays away from Daisy May in the future. I'd be extremely worried about her influence on my young child if I were Verity tbh.
It's shocking to watch what a poisonous guy like Jamie White can do to do someone vulnerable. If Niomi got the therapy she needed, maybe she still would have been with Dreamy Joe. Instead she's swallowed the bait and sinking deep. I had some hope that she was off the hook when the engagement was off but she is worse than ever. She's still rich, attractive, well connected, has a family to support her and ample time to heal from whatever this is. Instead of seeking actual help, she's given the reign of her life and mind to this hideous leech and joined a cult. I wonder what Joe or her old friends think of her current situation, if they think of her at all.
I have a friend who lived in an apartment block in London and was friendly with her neighbour - let’s call her Ann.
not unlike Nims, Ann lost her husband in traumatic circumstances. He got ill and died (I don’t know the details though). Ann really struggled to come to terms with it for a long time. She got into new age hippy stuff for a while, did yoga retreats… then on one Yoga retreat she meets a young guy from Morocco.
this guy sweeps Ann off her feet. She ends up sending him money every month so he can visit the U.K. gradually it turns in to helping him buy a house in Morocco. Ann sells her flat and sends all the money to her “boyfriend”.
My friend couldn’t understand why on earth this seemingly sensible woman would fall so easily for this scam. Our conclusion was that, on some level, Ann _knew_ he was dodgy but was paying for the delusion to continue. Reality was awful for her and rather than processing all those difficult emotions and feelings, it was easier to throw herself into a fantasy. Her friends all warned him repeatedly and everyone got a telling off from her, or cut off completely. She just didn’t want to have her fantasy taken from her.
on another level, we suspected that Ann enjoyed a relationship she had a modicum of control over. She knew that as long as the money kept flowing, her morroccon boyfriend would be there. He would be nice and amenable to her while the cash flow was good, whereas she had no control whatsoever over the death of her husband.
I think Niomi on a level knows Jamie is awful, but it’s nicer for her to pretend. It’s easier for her to buy in to all his enlightened crap and pretend he has the answer to everything. I think she just doesn’t want to drop the fantasy that _someone_ loves her and that he’s a stand up guy.
she comes across as the ultimate control freak to me as well. Deep down I think she knows that as long as she’s got a good income and nest egg, Lordon will always be there, and it offers her some power and control. With Joey, he had his own job and flat and didn’t need Niomi’s money - and that meant he could walk away from the relationship.
Those are the only reasons I can think of, why any woman would be remotely interested in Jobless Jamie.