"Dangerous Vegan" topic Sarma Melngailis is accusing Netflix of "mocking" the "psychological abuse" she allegedly suffered by the hands of her ex-husband, Anthony Strangis (proper).
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Sarma Melngailis is accusing Netflix of “mocking” the “psychological abuse” she allegedly suffered by the hands of her ex-husband, Anthony Strangis.
The previous couple is on the middle of the streamer’s four-part docuseries “Dangerous Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.,” which premiered earlier this month.
Melngailis ran vegan sizzling spot Pure Meals and Wine in Manhattan earlier than she went on the run together with her then-spouse in 2015 after they stole practically $2 million from traders and workers.
The couple was arrested the next 12 months, with Melngailis, 49, subsequently sentenced to 4 months in jail.
She filed for divorce from Strangis, 41, in 2018, claiming he abused her and coerced her into the crimes.
The glamorous blond — who has been dubbed the “vegan Bernie Madoff” — participated within the new Netflix documentary, however she clearly isn’t pleased with the completed product, taking to Instagram to slam the streamer in a meaty submit on Tuesday.
“There are extra vital issues happening on the planet than the misrepresentation of *my* story, however I’ll proceed to talk out in objection to the mocking of psychological abuse by Netflix and the misportrayal of those sorts of tales normally,” Melngailis fumed.
She shared two images — one among a Netflix promo displaying her as a “glamorous villain,” and the opposite, a selfie displaying her with mascara smudged throughout her face.
“Me wanting like a glamorized villain consuming a money salad shouldn't be me,” she declared. “It might assist Netflix sensationalize the story, however at my expense, and on the expense of a higher understanding of the bigger concern together with #coercivecontrol, #narcisssisticabuse, #cultmindcontrol and extra.”
Melngailis additionally linked to a letter on her private weblog, which she alleges she wrote to Strangis in 2016, following their arrest for fraud.
The Submit has reached out to Netflix for remark.
Within the prolonged letter, she accuses Strangis — whom she calls Mr. Fox — of psychological abuse and of brainwashing her into believing he may make her beloved pet canine, Leon, immortal.
“Every little thing is gone – the restaurant, the model, my house, my work, my staff, my clients, even all my issues: garments, papers, information, images, everything. Additionally, my integrity. And scariest of all for me: my independence,” she wrote within the letter.
Melngailis added that Strangis made her “drunk with false hope,” saying he may ship her “eternal youth” and that pet pooch Leon can be “by her facet eternally.”
“You figured me out — what would work on me. You reeled me in, then obtained me trapped by borrowing cash you’d promise to repay. Solely slightly at first, however that was the hook,” she continued. “I wished to be repaid, so I’d allow you to again in. I’d allow you to again into my house once I’d resolved to don't have anything to do with you once more since you have been telling me you had money to pay me again.”
Melngailis then wrote: “Then in some way you’d pull some insane mind-f–kery and would find yourself borrowing extra. How that occurred, I don’t even know. Why did I provide you with extra? How did that occur? How did you try this?”
Within the letter, the blond additionally alleges that Strangis took management of her Gmail account, contacting a few of her well-known purchasers — together with Alec Baldwin — to ask to borrow money.
“Begging Alec for a couple of thousand dollars as ME? Writing all that s–tty and past humiliating stuff from MY electronic mail, so these folks suppose they’re speaking to me?” she wrote.
Baldwin was a daily at Melngailis’ Pure Meals and Wine, the place he famously met his now-wife, Hilaria, again in 2010.
Tuesday’s Instagram submit isn’t the primary time Melngailis has hit out at her portrayal within the Netflix doc.
Final week, she slammed the ending of the collection, claiming it implied she nonetheless talks to her ex.
“The ending of ‘Dangerous Vegan’ is disturbingly deceptive; I'm not in contact with Anthony Strangis,” she wrote. “I didn’t need to marry him, and that a part of the story was inaccurately condensed.”
She additionally wrote a separate weblog submit discussing the way in which she was manipulated by Strangis, saying: “There was no precise gun to my head so it is going to be mentioned that in fact I had a alternative. I get that. Nevertheless, the response that I have to be loopy and/or silly is a straightforward, reductive one. I’m not silly and I’m not loopy. I am humiliated and shamed by all of the harm brought on, however have been working to rebuild a powerful basis of self-reliance and self-awareness.”
Melngailis and Stangis disappeared after she repeatedly did not pay her staff in 2014 and 2015. The 2 have been arrested in Might 2016 after ordering a non-vegan Domino’s pizza to the Tennessee motel room the place they have been hiding out.
Melngailis pleaded responsible to prices of grand larceny, prison tax fraud and a scheme to defraud traders in alternate for 5 years’ probation and 4 months in jail, which she served at Rikers in summer time 2017.
Strangis pleaded responsible to 4 counts of grand larceny within the fourth diploma and was sentenced to 1 12 months in jail and 5 years’ probation, in addition to having to pay $840,000 in restitution to traders. It’s unknown the place he's now.
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