Love that question, my favourite Rachel story is my own, I was 15 when I sent her an email thinking she could actually help me, I was out of the relationship but I had really severe issues after, wasn’t even able to cope with being cuddled on the couch by my own family, she emailed me back with “aww I’m sorry to hear that, are you coming to my show?” and gullible little me was like?? No?? I’m 15 and skint as
duck. So she gave me two tickets and at this point I was quite up her arse, and I was like oh my god, the woman who gave me the strength to leave etc. A few weeks later my mum and I go see her, when everyone’s asking questions my mum sticks her hand up and basically says thank you, she was absolutely bawling and I think Rachel made some throw away comment about helping warriors (what I learned later, was absolute shite but anyhooo)
So basically we line up to meet her and we get to me and we have a bit of a normal chat, she says hi how are ya nice to meet ya bye bla bla, my mum has a chat with josh about work as I’m talking to Rachel , we leave.
That night, she posts about the night and the babies and then in the middle of the post, she tells all about how a mum stood up and thanked her, everyone was crying, the air conditioner clapped and the bar staff were sobbing, and how she gave this young girl such an inspirational chat ( we talked for 3 bloody minutes love) basically just a bunch of shite, but she put quite a bit of info on the post, and the city she was in, wtf?? I was a mess for a while after cause I thought, what if my ex or anyone else sees this and knows I’ve opened up (to someone I thought could help me) I was actually really frightened. I don’t even know how I didn’t cotton on then that she wasn’t what she said she was, I actually gave her my address as she did offer to send me a book as the stall had closed, she didn’t but still has my address I think. god knows why but I was 15 and a stupid teenager, I still absolutely kick myself for this.
This is really messy cause I’m just in and I’m trying to remember all the facts, not bothered about hiding my identity, cause if all you OG tattlers remember my first post, I didn’t hide then so I don’t now lol. Will find screenshots of the emails sent from us both if admins need proof. Also I’m 18 now, in a great relationship and healing, for anyone who’s read this long