Paige Spiranac says she endured a “actually scary” second on the current American Century Championship, claiming a male fan threatened her after accusing her of scamming him out of $10,000.
Throughout the newest episode of her “Taking part in A Spherical” podcast, Spiranac recalled how an “unhinged” fan approached her as she warmed up for the ultimate spherical of the occasion, which passed off earlier this month at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Nevada.
“There was some man… and he comes up and asks me for an image, it’s positive at first. After which, he goes into how I scammed him out of $10,000 and he began threatening me. It was a extremely actually scary scenario,” mentioned Spiranac, who later added how she had her head on a swivel on the occasion and that it affected her play down the stretch.
“Because it seems, this man was scammed by a faux profile that somebody created and it had a faux quantity, he was unhinged. It was a really scary scenario, and fortuitously I had my crew there, so I referred to as my agent over and he was attempting to deal with it.”
Though safety spoke to the person and issued a warning to not strategy or discuss to Spiranac, the 29-year-old influencer mentioned that he confirmed up on gap two and that her agent dealt with the scenario. Spiranac believes the person “ought to’ve been faraway from the property” in Lake Tahoe, and was upset when that didn’t occur.
As Spiranac additionally detailed, this isn’t the primary time she has handled an uneasy scenario involving “offended” and “hostile” male followers.
“I’ve been coping with these safety points for some time and so they have been more and more worse within the final couple of months, the place these males are getting scammed by these faux profiles, faux numbers, assembly on Google hangouts, no matter you possibly can consider, it’s taking place,” Spiranac mentioned. “After which they arrive and discover me or attain out to me and so they’re very hostile, very offended as a result of they’ve been scammed out of a lot of cash, or they assume we had been in a relationship and I had ghosted them.
“And the scariest half is the truth that all these profiles are nameless and it’s onerous to seek out out who these persons are or after I go to an occasion or an look the place there are lots of people, I can’t put a face to a profile or a face to a reputation, so I don’t know who's on the market… particularly with every thing that has been taking place on this planet.”
Spiranac defined that she has switched up her social media habits to extend her security, particularly when she is in public. She most just lately stepped out for Maxim’s Scorching 100 expertise at Hyde Seaside in Miami — one month after the journal dubbed her the “sexiest lady alive.”
“I’ve been very, very anxious and nervous and scared and it’s gotten to the purpose now the place I’ll go to occasions and I don’t put up my location. I don’t put up the place I'm… I’ll go days at a time the place I’m at and I’m not posting and It’s as a result of I'm so scared that somebody is gonna come up like what occurred at ACC.”
Spiranac mentioned she “doesn’t actually go away” her dwelling a lot, nor does she exit typically on account of scary fan encounters.
“I’m simply beginning to really feel I’m residing on this bubble and that is one thing I’ve by no means actually skilled earlier than and I don’t have the sources or the cash to all the time defend myself with safety and it simply takes time to deal with issues, particularly when it’s performed via the web and social media,” the influencer mentioned.
An emotional Spiranac mentioned that as her star continues to rise, she continues to cope with elevated “stalking” conditions, which trigger her nervousness.
“It’s costing me my security and it’s actually f–ked up,” she mentioned.
Spiranac additionally warned that if a social media account along with her identify doesn’t have a blue checkmark, “It’s not me.”
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