REALLY? smh.

Last night, one of my favorite singers posted on Facebook about something that happened to them. Natalie Grant was scammed over a year ago. A woman evidently called her saying that her daughter was dying from cancer and that she wanted to talk to Natalie. It was all a scam.

The woman evidently did this to many celebrities.

The story can be seen here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/uncovering-dying-daughter-hoax-lured-celebrities/story?id=20793858&singlePage=true

It's a lengthy read but it is worth it.

So why did this woman make up this story?

She evidently suffers from depression and was out for attention and a need for relationships with others.

This cut deep when I read the story. Not only was I angered when I read what she did to these people but it cut deep because I have had people not believe my own life story and tell me I am out for attention. Seriously... I opened up to a few people about what I endured as a child when I was younger and they did not believe me. This made me doubt myself and my memories. I still sometimes have doubts because of the reactions I got. I was actually talking to my therapist the other day about my situation and she said, "I've had people who were abused every day and nobody knew." I have had someone tell me that when I was in and out of hospitals for suicidal ideation as a teenager that I was out for attention. 

And to think that people actually make up stories like this to get attention makes me sick.

But at the same time, I empathize with the woman to a point because she has a mental illness. Mental illness makes you sometimes do things you regret, sometimes makes you do things out of the ordinary. "Crazy." But I still do not think that is an excuse for what she did.

One of the things that the celebrities said in the article that really resonated with me is that they hope this situation does not stop celebrities from reaching out to the suffering. Just because one person made up a story for attention does not mean that everyone does it. There really are suffering people out there who look up to artists and listen to their music for inspiration, me being one of them.