I rejoined after another thing piqued my tattling enquiry. It’s I the Coldplay person.
Look, Shannen has brought all of this criticism on herself. She has had so many opportunities to address the GFM but ignores the genuine questions people have. It’s not all trolls just picking on her. Christ- you’d be a hard person to go after someone in recovery from any form of illness, don’t mind cancer. However, she appears to have used the proceeds from the GFM for everything but what she said it was for and she is still using old tricks. Build engagement with a sob story- then boom, product launch etc. She has done nothing to redeem herself. Where is the huge cheque To the Irish Cancer Society? Or St Luke’s? Personally, she seems out for her. Yes, she has a small child, but so do hundreds of thousands with cancer and they don’t have the luxury of money that was donated to help with treatment (that she got for free), neitherdo they attack anyone who dares question her distribution of said money donated. She paints herself the martyr of cancer, struggling through. Portrayed herself as terminal and even the influencers that helped her gain traction for that GFM want nothing to do with her. I hope for her sake that she didn’t pour all the proceeds into this “brand” because god forbid (and I mean this with sincerity) if she ever relapsed, she will never see such generosity again. I’m sick of her sob stories, want her to be transparent and that’s the only reason I criticise her. Not because of her personality, but because she took money from well-intentioned people and things it’s okay to do what she wants with it, when she said it was for treatment (that was covered by the state) and other things related to her diagnosis and appears to have used it purely for frivolous, material things, that had nothing to do with the originally stated objectives. We live in a very PC world where most media outlets are afraid to “come after” a cancer survivor but her luck will only go so far in terms of lack of accountability. Her entire following was based on the “Big C and Me”. Beyond that, she had little else in terms of influencer “esque” substance. The rest of them spent quite a few years being fashion/beauty/whatever before launching products. She’s selling candles because of what? Using them? I dunno, seems like a waste of money to me. And a slap in the face to people like me who thought it was for something completely different,