# Jesse Ridgway Has Faked Everything Before. Why Would This Be Different?

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Podcast: [True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948)
Published: 2026-06-11T23:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8915031
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Staged family violence for four years. A billion views. Over a thousand 911 calls from people who thought it was real. A creator platform that collapsed and got sold as an NFT. And now Jesse Ridgway announces a pregnancy, a Down syndrome diagnosis, and a termination to 4.3 million followers — and the world debates how he handled it instead of asking whether any of it happened. Jesse Ridgway’s entire career is built on fabricating events and presenting them as real. Each stunt pushes further than the last. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott examines the clinical escalation — staged family violence to a failed platform to a fabricated pregnancy crisis involving a Down syndrome baby — and asks what drives someone to keep going darker. What makes a disability something this man would reach for as a prop? And if his wife Ashley is in on it, what does that tell you? If she’s not, what does that tell you about where she is? Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #JesseRidgway #McJuggerNuggets #PsychoSeries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #InfluencerExposed #Narcissism #StoryFire #Exposed #MunchausenByInternet

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