This Sunday, January 13, Sept à Huit broadcast a report on Anne, a mother, defrauded when she thought she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt. A dark story which made the rounds on social networks and led TF1 to make a big decision.
This is the unusual story that everyone is talking about on social networks. A case that has grown well beyond the distribution of the last issue of Seven to Eight on TF1 which offered, this Sunday, January 13, a report on a certain Anne, a mother, who thought she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt. This 53-year-old interior designer lost everything by sending crazy sums to a scammer who posed as the famous American actor. In total, the Frenchwoman lost 830 euros in this scam.
After initial exchanges with the man she thought was Brad Pitt, Anne ended up falling in love with the latterwhile his marriage was failing. Feeling listened to and loved for the first time in a long time, the Frenchwoman lets herself go in this relationship on social networks where the scammer always asks her for more money, notably on the pretext of kidney cancer requiring dialysis every 3 days at $600 or an expensive transplant.
TF1 deletes the report on the fake Brad Pitt due to the cyberharassment of the victim
Totally ruined and desperate, Anne wanted to tell her story in front of the TF1 cameras. She also revealed the photos that the alleged Brad Pitt sent her. Selfies that she believed to be more real than life despite the very crude editing who made him a laughingstock on social networks. Quickly, photos of the actor displaying the message “Anne I love you” or of him on his hospital bed have become real memes. Since this Sunday, January 12, Brad Pitt has been trending on X. A terrible affair which is beginning to spread around the world.
Faced with the scale of the phenomenon and the fragility of the victim, currently hospitalized for serious depression, TF1 took a radical decision: remove the report and replay from all group platforms. “It is a decision to protect the victim because she experienced a wave of harassment“, explained the channel to Here is. TF1 also published a press release onSept à Huit is a news program that neutrally deals with social problemswe can read. The report broadcast this Sunday sparked a wave of harassment against a witness. For the protection of victims, we have decided to remove it from our platforms“. A way to protect the mother of the family.
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