It is more than ok to go from having nothing, living in a refuge to then having absolutely everything and living a better life. I for one, champion anyone who gets to turn their life around like that. However, I don’t champion it when the person doing it will do the following:
*Take PayPal donations and never answer the question to where the money has been spent but instead, show us all the luxuries she has brought even knowing she is under suspicion.
*Act as a DV expert and ambassador then write in her book that she was guilty of DV towards him too and in front of the children, then spend every day playing the victim and playing it well enough to gain a platform on social media that she later abuses.
*Patronise anyone who comes to her to seek help with a “that’s shit hun” but offer a swipe up a £1 fluffy cloud.
*Forget that her target audience and USP are normal women who have likely experience DV or potentially still do yet continuously post links or photos that have no prior trigger warning. Then straight after, try to sell a product.
*Declare on social media that if a refuge isn’t nice, chances are, you’ll go back to your home because it’s full of nice things and creature comforts - including your violent partner. Likely putting women close to being brave enough to flee off ever leaving because they will worry about making it feel like home for the children they take with them. Becuase Rachel said so.
*Constantly talks about being an abandoned child and belittles her Mum for it on social media as often as she can even when repairing that relationship yet we do not know the reasons her Mum left, affair? DV? Mental Health? None of us know but are all expected to Wade in and judge her at every given chance.
*Talks about child poverty and food waste yet shows us their fancy meals daily, their constant dining out, the food they throw away and shows us all how she can afford to shop in M&S yet will only do a paid advert for another store and pretend to be a loyal customer and only shop where she’s paid. Never tells us if she pops a few tins in the store food bank drop offs though does she?
*Knowing what women in refuges need, NEVER actually sends anything of real use or value out to them. Only £5 vegan deodorants and cotton clouds, not to mention the rescue remedy that will no doubt fix the fear these women will leave with daily.
*Over exposes her children, step children, family children and friends children without care or consideration, if she can cash in on them, she will. Will expose them in all manner of situations, half naked, asleep, when in danger, when upset, when bullied or even send random strangers court documents exposing her children’s most initiate thoughts and harrowing experiences.
*Will set upon anyone who dares to argue against her and will even get her huns to join in too.
*Break every rule possible during a pandemic but happily clapped every Thursday to say thank you to the NHS.
*Break every safeguarding rule possible.
*Claim to support refuges and be an ambassador yet bully her own husband publicly and speak to him in a verbally abusing manner every day whilst recording it for 200k to see and find entertaining.
*Repeatedly share links to important issues when she can be bothered but doesn’t do her research or talk about these issues with the same passion in which she talks about a lonely naked bean.
*Encourage complete strangers to approach her children in public and then post it on social media.
The list goes on, and on.
Basically, I cannot be happy for her one bit and this life she has “worked so hard to build because frankly, it’s her followers that have built it for her by buying into her bullshit and giving her a platform to talk crap daily, engage in said crap which she then produces when approached by brands to do an ad.
I can only hope that following her stories yesterday, no men or women are put off fleeing a dangerous environment in fear it won’t feel like home and they are failing their children all because the wall paper doesn’t feel right. Forget what a refuge looks like and remember that they are in a safe place, with trained professionals and nobody there to hurt you. What Rachel should have added last night was that just because she went back, doesn’t mean you should. She went back to danger because she missed material things and took her daughter back with her, then went on to have another with her alleged abuser.She should have encouraged her followers not to do the same because who knows, that one follower that does go back, may never survive to flee again. It pains me to think that potentially, someone could be sitting in a refuge watching those stories and be triggered to go back home.