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I’ve just seen the most demented video in support of her that’s recently been uploaded in TikTok. They are saying she CAN’T be lying because Netflix have bought her story and are doing a documentary on her and that it’s on Google so it can’t be wrong not mentioning the fact that the only person whose mouth that’s come out of is Carrie/Sam. I despair.
😂 omg!!!! Seriously I wonder where this world will end up!
 
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The statement is back up!
Correct me if I’m wrong but surely if it was a real statement advised by a realllll solicitor then it would be on their paper or written by them?
For example
“Billybullshite solicitors would like to let you know our artist formally know as xyz has/hasn’t done the following”…….not just some confusing crap post on the net?
 
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I’ve just seen the most demented video in support of her that’s recently been uploaded in TikTok. They are saying she CAN’T be lying because Netflix have bought her story and are doing a documentary on her and that it’s on Google so it can’t be wrong not mentioning the fact that the only person whose mouth that’s come out of is Carrie/Sam. I despair.
I’ve made several posts today looking at the information that comes up when you google her. They all seem a little unusual. The most interesting one is where she says she learned braille and then “with a voice controlled program I was able to code my own electronic braille reader than ran through the vibrations on my iphone” (She coded something that allowed her iphone to pick up vibrations?) AFTER losing 70% of her temporal lobe. In the very kindest interpretation of this entire situation this is a woman who should have profound difficulties in speech perception. It is possible that she misunderstood the air b&b family due to (in her own words) losing 70% of the brain area that deals with this task. Screenshots and links are all in my earlier posts.
 
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I’ve made several posts today looking at the information that comes up when you google her. They all seem a little unusual. The most interesting one is where she says she learned braille and then “with a voice controlled program I was able to code my own electronic braille reader than ran through the vibrations on my iphone” (She coded something that allowed her iphone to pick up vibrations?) AFTER losing 70% of her temporal lobe. In the very kindest interpretation of this entire situation this is a woman who should have profound difficulties in speech perception. It is possible that she misunderstood the air b&b family due to (in her own words) losing 70% of the brain area that deals with this task. Screenshots and links are all in my earlier posts.
I don’t like to pick apart disability stuff but I also find that very odd. That would be incredible to be able to learn braille as an adult after losing 70% of your temporal lobe. She also often talked about her memory and hands but never spoke about vision problems either in all of her tiktok videos. Not that someone has to disclose all of their symptoms. It’s only at the point that all of this has come out I’m reflecting back
 
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Correct me if I’m wrong but does anyone find her statement contradictive?

She wasn’t aware of the full history of her sister’s mental health difficulties, but in the next breath is saying that she’s had a long history of mental health difficulties and hasn’t had any legal trouble in a decade. Surely if she knew of her legal woes, she’d know of her mental difficulties no?
 

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Correct me if I’m wrong but does anyone find her statement contradictive?

She wasn’t aware of the full history of her sister’s mental health difficulties, but in the next breath is saying that she’s had a long history of mental health difficulties and hasn’t had any legal trouble in a decade. Surely if she knew of her legal woes, she’d know of her mental difficulties no?
Yeah that makes no sense lol. And still no proof that she isn't Samantha. Looking forward to the police/solicitor letter turning up anyway, wonder if they'll beat Jack Monroe's Essex Police Celeb Squad to it.
 
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I don’t think anyone will ever know the full story to be honest. It seems to me that this person, whatever her name, has some deep rooted mental health problem like Munchausens, Scitzophenia, or any other thing I can’t spell. No, I am not diagnosing her, but I’m seeing multiple personalities that are/have lived very strange scenarios out and that although there may be truth in certain aspects of what she is portraying, it seems to me that she really believes she is being honest, when I’m fact she’s just creating her own narrative that puts her in the spotlight as a victim.

I hope I have not offended anyone by saying that. I realise I have not explained myself too well. But anyone ever had a friend or partner who’s a pathological liar? They aren’t consciously making stuff up, it just becomes part of their persona over time. I hope someone steps in and helps because she has put herself as risk and is in too remote/specific a place to protect herself.
 
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Correct me if I’m wrong but does anyone find her statement contradictive?

She wasn’t aware of the full history of her sister’s mental health difficulties, but in the next breath is saying that she’s had a long history of mental health difficulties and hasn’t had any legal trouble in a decade. Surely if she knew of her legal woes, she’d know of her mental difficulties no?
I literally cannot get over her trying to explain away the news article and claim it’s not her by saying ‘I’m old and large so can’t be me’… well yeah that picture was taken like 10 years ago? Gives you a fair amount of time to change!

I don’t think anyone will ever know the full story to be honest. It seems to me that this person, whatever her name, has some deep rooted mental health problem like Munchausens, Scitzophenia, or any other thing I can’t spell. No, I am not diagnosing her, but I’m seeing multiple personalities that are/have lived very strange scenarios out and that although there may be truth in certain aspects of what she is portraying, it seems to me that she really believes she is being honest, when I’m fact she’s just creating her own narrative that puts her in the spotlight as a victim.

I hope I have not offended anyone by saying that. I realise I have not explained myself too well. But anyone ever had a friend or partner who’s a pathological liar? They aren’t consciously making stuff up, it just becomes part of their persona over time. I hope someone steps in and helps because she has put herself as risk and is in too remote/specific a place to protect herself.
Yes she really reminds me of someone I used to know who was a compulsive liar. The purpose of most of her lies were just to make herself sound like a victim (she’d been abused/grape/bullied/raised in abject poverty), and everyone just believed her because why would you lie about things like that? However it was all of the other pointless, little lies she also told which tripped her up and got her exposed in the end, which is what I think has happened here with this lady. Her story is unravelling because she has told too many different lies at different times and has clearly forgotten what she has said.
 
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As my dad always said... 'to be a good liar, you've got to remember the lies you've told!'
 
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I don’t like to pick apart disability stuff but I also find that very odd. That would be incredible to be able to learn braille as an adult after losing 70% of your temporal lobe. She also often talked about her memory and hands but never spoke about vision problems either in all of her tiktok videos. Not that someone has to disclose all of their symptoms. It’s only at the point that all of this has come out I’m reflecting back
At the risk of 'outing' myself here... I have a 30 year background in SEN education, both in adult disability provision, Acquired Brain Injury, and in Speech, Language & Communication provision. I have experience of Munchausens and Munchausens by Proxy.

I got caught up following Carrantha initially because, as a disability advocate, I was horrified at her reported experiences through Airbnb. I was fully prepared to fight on her behalf.

Very quickly I had an uncomfortable feeling - claims of the rapid deterioration of the brain concurrent with spectacular learning of new difficult skills (braille) didn't add up. Reports of losing the ability to read, but clearly reading quickly and fluently from notes didn't add up. And then came claims of having personally, rapidly and successfully developed AAC software that the SLT community either uses already, or would kill for...

I had a real inner battle- I'm a fierce supporter of the disability community and to feel doubt rising was horrible. But moreso, I am sickened that anyone might use a false mask of disability for clout.

As I thought about it more and examined what the motive might be, it seemed there was little to no financial scam involved - I understand there may be issues now around orders being filled but honestly that's probably a by-product of all this distraction.

It all seems to revolve around a deep need for attention and validation, and likely stems from the tragic loss of her baby to SIDS. I can only imagine the ways in which my heart and mind would shatter in that situation and truly, my heart hurts for her 😞

She seems desperately trapped now, creating the sister statement, but it's made things worse and the tiktok witch hunt is in full flow.

So... yeh. Who knows how this is going to pan out. But deep down, I kind of want to give her a hug. Weird.
 
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I’m hoping we get something in the form of disproving or proving what is truly going on soon. Airbnb are a big company and have received a fair amount of criticism about this and rightly so if it turns out to be true. If it’s not, I’m sure they will want to clear their name and speak out on it in due course
Airbnb is used by millions worldwide and there will be millions of bad reviews. And millions of people (both hosts and guests) trying to claim they’re suing or going for compo. This whole thing is a bunch of bull😂
 
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She states on one of her short stories that her actual name is Cameron and she goes by 'carrie'
There aren't any records for a Cameron Cookes ever existing anywhere. None of the details for any Cameron Williams match up either and I'm 99% sure they're all lads.
 
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Apologies if these have been shared already, but when Carrantha was carrying out the scam, she created a FB account under the name of Claudia Bronwyn. Yet another name thrown into the mix here!


 
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Ancestry stuff

Sorry if this is a bit jumbled, had to work backwards.

- Samantha Jade Cookes, mother's maiden name Williams, birth registered in Gloucester December 1988, could mean November birthday to match her company records. A cousin and someone who apparently knew her growing up (will call him Tiktok John) say this is her, birthday November 1988.
- Samantha Cookes is in Gloucester until 2008, when she shows up in York University halls. The Samantha Cookes who pulled the surrogacy scam dropped out of York Uni in her first year, 2008. I do believe the part about her losing her baby as evidence must have been submitted in her court case. There is, unsurprisingly, no public record of her after 2008.
- Cousin says she's the one that went missing 2013 and ended up in Ireland.
- The only other Cookes with mother's maiden Williams in Gloucester is indeed a younger brother. I'll not name him for privacy reasons, he's nothing to do with this. No sisters. This is what her cousin and Tiktok John say.
- Tiktok John says her dad's name was Les and he died a few years ago. There is indeed a record for a Leslie Cookes in Gloucester, about the right age, died 2016. His middle name is the same as the possible little brother but it is a very common one. I found his brother's name and an obituary names all the people I came across on my Facebook travels.
- Leslie Cookes married a Williams in 1987. As above, had Samantha in 1988 and a younger brother.
- Leslie Cookes married a Smith in 1970. They had two sons and I've found them both via the cousin's Facebook. These would be the two older half brothers people are giving the cousin tit about in tiktok comments - she originally said Samantha only had a younger brother as the half brothers are older and never lived with her. Ancestry puts them as teenagers when Samantha was born so this seems legit to me.
- There is no Carrie Cookes at all. Anywhere. There were a few Carolines born in the 1800s.
- The only Carrie Williams in Gloucester had a different mother, was born August 1983 and death registered the same quarter.
- There's one Carrie Williams with mother's maiden name Williams born in Shropshire but she's too young and I can't link her to any of the rest of them. It's quite a common name in Wales and along the English side of the border.

It's 100% all the same person and hopefully her family can be left out of it now.
Wow thank you so much for doing this!

This entire saga is bewildering to me. I'm really surprised at the amount of tiktokers I respect being naive and defending this person - personally I would just be quiet and not say anything

I'm glad people on this thread are as suspicious as everyone has taken that statement and has basically said she's not lying but it arose more red flags for me than anything - what sister????

I do hate the thought of a witch hunt against an innocent person but I don't necessarily think it is. I think there's no smoke without fire! People have questions and if she's innocent she could just make a video and laugh it off. The entire debacle of shutting down all of her profiles makes it look far far far worse.
 
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At the risk of 'outing' myself here... I have a 30 year background in SEN education, both in adult disability provision, Acquired Brain Injury, and in Speech, Language & Communication provision. I have experience of Munchausens and Munchausens by Proxy.

I got caught up following Carrantha initially because, as a disability advocate, I was horrified at her reported experiences through Airbnb. I was fully prepared to fight on her behalf.

Very quickly I had an uncomfortable feeling - claims of the rapid deterioration of the brain concurrent with spectacular learning of new difficult skills (braille) didn't add up. Reports of losing the ability to read, but clearly reading quickly and fluently from notes didn't add up. And then came claims of having personally, rapidly and successfully developed AAC software that the SLT community either uses already, or would kill for...

I had a real inner battle- I'm a fierce supporter of the disability community and to feel doubt rising was horrible. But moreso, I am sickened that anyone might use a false mask of disability for clout.

As I thought about it more and examined what the motive might be, it seemed there was little to no financial scam involved - I understand there may be issues now around orders being filled but honestly that's probably a by-product of all this distraction.

It all seems to revolve around a deep need for attention and validation, and likely stems from the tragic loss of her baby to SIDS. I can only imagine the ways in which my heart and mind would shatter in that situation and truly, my heart hurts for her 😞

She seems desperately trapped now, creating the sister statement, but it's made things worse and the tiktok witch hunt is in full flow.

So... yeh. Who knows how this is going to pan out. But deep down, I kind of want to give her a hug. Weird.
The bit in bold really sticks out to me too. I'm considering applying for an SLT masters in a couple of years so you can probably guess what my undergrad degree was and have seen what brain cancer did to an experienced software developer. Don't believe she did that for a second.
 
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To be honest having gone back and read all the reviews on her Airbnb and her responses posted earlier in the thread and she doesn't actually seem like a very nice person at all
 
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