November 21, 2022 • 22 mins
Before her 'Housewives' fame...Meghan King found herself in a deep web of deceit caused by a stranger who targeted her entire family! When the authorities couldn't help, Meghan was forced to put on her detective hat and ultimately unravel the sinister catfishing plot causing the King family so much pain. Caelynn Miller-Keyes investigates on this episode of True Crime Reality.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to True Crime Reality with host Caitlin miller Keys.
Things are about to get real. Meet Meghan King, former
housewife of Orange County before Sea and mother of three.
But who knew she was once the target of a
crazy catfish and how a serial stalker led Meghan and
her family down a dangerous path that led to police intervention.
(00:24):
Caitlin miller Key's investigates on True Crime Reality. Hello everyone,
and welcome back to the True Crime Reality podcast. I
have a very exciting guest today, Megan King. And you
know her from the Real Housewives of Orange County, but
maybe what you didn't know is she was involved with
a pretty crazy cat fishing story. So, Megan, do you
(00:46):
want to tell everyone a little bit about yourself before
we jump into it. Yeah? Thanks for having me. I'm
excited to be here and talk about my true crime
story on your podcast. Um so yeah, I, like you said,
it was on The Real Housewives Orange County. But a
lot has changed since I was on that show. So
since that happened, I have had twin boys and um
(01:07):
and so I'm I've gotten divorced, I'm a single mom
of three, and I'm a disability advocate. My son has
cerebral palsy. I um, I'm I guess what they say.
It's called an influencer these days, and I um, and
I work. I do a lot of brand partnerships with
companies like Amazon and um um gosh, who else, Polly Pocket, Mattel,
(01:31):
you know things like that. So I'm kind of just
like have my toe in a lot of different projects
right now. That's awesome, sounds like a super mom. I also,
I guess I'm an influencer, and I can't imagine doing
with kids. I barely get stuff done. It's a lot,
it really and you know what, like there's just no balance.
I'm just constantly going, going, going. I mean, right now
my kids are at home with a nanny and that
(01:52):
makes me really sad. But you know, if otherwise I
wouldn't be here talking to you. There's you know, at
least my kids can see them working. Yeah, so I
can show them on single bonds can do it and
we don't have to We don't have to rely on
anybody else. We can't figure it out except nanny's. Yeah. No,
I love that. That's amazing. Thanks so jumping into it.
I am so excited to talk about this UM, it's wild.
(02:16):
I've read it briefly. I don't want to read too
much because I want you to tell the story. Um,
but can you take us back to how it all started,
how the catfishing began. This is crazy because I just
recently got into the story on my podcast with the
creator of Catfish, Nieve Schulmann. So I'm gonna start away
at the beginning because this is it's crazy because you know,
(02:37):
people know me from the Real Housewives Orange County, but
what they don't know is that my brother is also
a famous personality. And my brother he's he's a supermodel
in New York, eight years younger than me, and this
is a story about what happened to him and how
I was involved. So initially, UM, this wasn't about two
thousand and seven or two thousand eight. Um, the inner
(03:00):
I had been around. I just graduated from college and
Facebook was still, you know, very simple, not what it
is today, and it was basically just you know, kind
of like the homepage and the basic information about oneself
and like maybe it's just a smattering of photos. And
so it turns out there there's like some weird things
(03:20):
going on. So r J, my brother he had seen that. Okay,
there's been some um weird He's got some weird messages
about people saying, well, this isn't you you have a
fake page, but you know this is it's back before
blue check marks whatever. You know. Nobody thought twice about it,
like it will just disappear whatever. No, to quite quite contrary.
(03:44):
So what happened was we started, you know, kind of
seeing this what's going on? And I actually got a
message from from his girl named Chelsea. I can say
your name because it's public now and it's been public
for years now. So Chelsea, I was saying, I think
somebody has a fake page about your brother. And I'm like, gosh,
(04:06):
thank you so much for telling me I look into
this fake fake page. Are is young at this point?
What what am? I'm like twenty two and r J
is eight years younger than me, So he was what
what was that sixteen years old? And so he's in
high school and this is before he became this you know,
big supermodel he is today. And my ID and I
also had to we had two sisters in college at
(04:28):
Auburn at the time. Now that's important and I'll get
back to that, but that is important to know. They
played soccer there, so r J um that. You know,
this girl reaches out to me and I start looking
into it, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is deep.
Not only does r J have a face fake Facebook page,
I have one, my sisters both have one, our friends,
(04:49):
our cousins, everyone, everyone. And no, it wasn't just like
a little a little page. They were in depth. We
were making status updates, we were making posts. Well, turns
out her in her story, my sisters and myself we
died in a car accident, so there we go. Makes
it a whole lot easier. So this woman, her name
(05:10):
is Chelsea. Like I said, it was almost like she
had that like serial killer mentality, you know how serial killers.
And I learned this from True Crime Products podcast on
my own serial killers like they kind of leave clues,
like they kind of want to see, like they'll collect
their name in newspaper articles or things like that, like
creepy stuff, Like they kind of want people to leave
(05:31):
breadcrumbs so people have a little bit of a trail
but not be found out. Well that's what this. I
feel like this check Chelsea was doing. So once I
uncovered that, Okay, all roads lead back to this woman
named Chelsea. I'm like, I gotta figure out she's young,
she's like fourteen. This is not the story I was expecting.
(05:52):
So this is all pre Orange County two thousand seven.
I wasn't yes, fourteen years old. So I I'm an investigator.
It's just who I am. And so I do a
deep dive. I'm like reverse searching her phone number, I
figure out who her dad is. I figure out her
mom is, her stepdad, and I call their their business,
(06:15):
the parents business, and I'm like, You've got to get
your daughter to stop doing this. Well can you imagine
if you get a call from a stranger out of
the blue, from a state, like from Missouri where who
the hell knows where I was as far as they're concerned,
And then I'm saying, your daughter is making up a
fake account. Like these parents don't even know what Facebook
is at this point, and so they don't even know
(06:37):
what to do or how to handle this. And it
didn't stop. Like this girl has. It has a very
intense you know, like a story, fake story happening here.
And she did it all too because it turns out
she was a lesbian and she wasn't out yet, and
she was trying to, you know, flirt with other women
in this way by using my beautiful, gorgeous, perfect, amazing
brother's little face and I know, totally crazy. Turns out
(07:03):
there is no laws. We called the FBI, We called
the local police in Alabama, called the local police in
Missouri and wherever. There's no laws that prevent at this
time that would prevent this from happening or we had
no rights. My little brother had no rights to protect
his identity from this fake story that was out there.
And that's impersonating, like you're you're fully impersonating someone still identity,
(07:29):
thank you. That's what I was looking for, like identity fraud,
that there's got to be something, and there's gotta be,
but there's wasn't. And plus it across state boundaries. So
we're like, is it a federal crime? Like I was
pursuing all avenues. Yeah, yeah. My dad's a lawyer, like
he was in like, we're all in on this. Well
it was so we couldn't do anything about it. We
knew this was going on. My sisters going back to
(07:51):
the their Auburn attendance, they played soccer at Auburn Now,
this girl, Chelsea was from like Tuscaloosa, Alabama or some
small town Alabama. She was a huge so her fan,
which was convenient because my sisters are phenomenal soccer players
and one of them went on to play pro for
ten years. So Chelsea, for some reason, we know she's
(08:11):
going to their soccer game. There's nothing we can do
about it. And how creepy is that this girl who's stock? Yeah,
that stocker status. I don't understand. Auburn had to hire
extra security for that game because we were of the
King family, was afraid for our personal safety. And how
did you know that she was coming to the soccer
I don't really remember. I don't know if she told
somebody or she posted about it. Sure enough she was there.
(08:34):
And yeah, so fast forward, I'm at a party in
New York. It's years later, about four years later, so
it's about twelve, let's say, and I'm um at a
party in New York hanging out with my little brother.
At this point, he had moved to New York because yeah,
he was about eight. He was just killing it in
(08:54):
this on the Supermodel scene, which was like so serendipitous
that Chelsea shows my brother of all people to be
this big person who then goes on and becomes this beautiful,
gorgeous supermodel, right and lo and behold who is at
this party but Nive Schulman. Now, at this time, Neive
hadn't created the series Catfish on MTV, but he had
(09:17):
a documentary called Catfish, which was his personal story of
how he was catfished. So of course I just magnetically
drawn to him, and I'm like, listen to this, can
you imagine how many times that happened? But like, I'm
just like another drop in the bucket. So I'm telling
me the story that we just talked about, and I'm like,
you have to do something about this you have, And
(09:37):
Nive's kind of like, okay, yeah, I don't know. I know. Well,
Neive and I stay in touch. We still are to
this day actually, and he turns out he's like, I'm
going to pitch the show and I want that story
with Arjane Chelsea to be my pilot episode. Oh wow, yeah,
And it was and it was. So he films the
(09:57):
whole Catfish episode with Arjie and Chelsea, very first episode
ever to be on Catfish. Chelsea agreed. Chelsea agreed, but only.
But there was one caveat she had to stop stalking
her family and guess what, boom need. The police didn't work,
the law didn't work, but catfish. Yes, So what happened
(10:30):
in those four years? Like you said, fast forward four years?
She still continued to update Facebook and pretended to it
just like continued to snowball. I also don't understand why, Like,
if you want to flit with women, why not just
have your brother? Like why do you need the whole family,
the cousins, the friends, you know? I think it makes
it more believable. I just watched a documentary recently with
man Tito and how he was completely catfished as well,
(10:53):
and it was kind of it was very reminiscent of
the story that I just shared with you. It was
so involved, there were so many characters, family members. So
I just think that it makes it more believable. That's crazy,
the lengths that she went to just to flirt with women.
I mean, it's sociopathic. And if it wasn't sociopathic, it
(11:14):
would be it would be like I would be giving
her extraordinary props for doing this, But it's it was
hurting a lot of it was hurting us and it's
creepy and unnerving. Yeah, like when you're being stocked, you're
being impersonated, like there's so many things going on, not
just your brother, not just you. It's like everyone in
your life is now involved in this, and we were dead.
You'll get this. Get this. So if you go back
(11:35):
and watch the episode, you'll see this. And this is
like the crazy ship. Like I don't know how people
believe this stuff. So I guess like Chelsea was talking
to you know whoever girl she wanted to on the phone,
and I think the girl was like, well, why do
you sound like a girl? And I think the reason
she gave was because r J got in a car
accident with his three sisters in Florida. I don't know
(11:57):
how Florida got involved in this. All three US girls
died and r J. It affected r J's voice box,
like he got hurt and affected his voice box and
therefore he sounded like a woman. This is unbelievable, Like, actually,
I have so many questions and then they're like there's
too many running to my brain. Her parents never did anything,
(12:19):
but then she was on Catfish, the first ever episode
of this show that blew up. Did they nothing? I
don't know. I mean that's a good question. Maybe we
should reach out to I'm done. But and you haven't
heard from her since, Like there's nothing, no contact. I
don't think we have. Um No, I don't believe we
have heard from you know. At the end of the episode,
(12:39):
r J agreed to face time with Chelsea, and so
that was like kind of like a like a sense
of closure I think for him. Did she apologize? I
kind of think she did, but it just doesn't feel
it just didn't feel genuine because like she got all
this fame out of it. Yeah. Also, I mean it
turned into something right, like how are turned into a model?
(13:00):
How my sisters turned into a pro soccer player? Like
it kind of always this perfect storm and just like
just like all of that. I mean, Catfish is on
its tenth season now, I mean that's got to be like,
if not the most popular show on MTV one of them,
I agree that is. And she picked like the perfect family,
(13:21):
the model, the housewife, any of that any time. She
just like half of my other sister was on the
amazing Race, Oh my god. So it's like she picked
this family that's like very like I don't know. We're
all in entertainment randomly. And do you know how she
came about r J? She just stumbled upon him on Facebook. Okay,
(13:41):
this is my theory. I think that because she's such
a huge soccer fan and she was a fan of
Alabama and Alabama's rival is Auburn, she was probably probably
familiarized herself with the team. You know who was on
the Auburn team? Heat on my brother through Oh yeah, wow,
I totally when I saw this, at first I thought
(14:03):
it was someone who was obsessed with you from the
Housewives and then catfished through and like was using your name.
I I was not expecting this. Yeah it was my
little brother. I mean I was catfished as well in this,
but I was just a peripheral figure like to help
support my brother's cat fishing story. Yeah. It was completely
wild and it was it was like strange for our
(14:24):
family to even talk about because it just left us
very uneasy. You know, we didn't have a sense of
safety when that happens, and there was nothing we could do,
and that has to be so terrifying, Like you calling
the police, the FBI, all of these people and no
one will do one thing for you. They can't and
you're like, I'm endangered. I feel unsafe. You know, there's
nothing they could do. Like I was reading through the
law as I was trying to figure out where's a
(14:44):
loophole here, Like what who has a jurisdiction over this crime?
Is it a crime? Is it a civil offense or
a criminal offense? Like I put my lawyer hat on,
my fake lawyer had. Yeah, right, I'm like trying to
get to the bottom of it, and now is it
a crimer? It's still so I was talking to me
about this recently and he said that, um, and in
his experience, there's still no laws to really protect people
(15:06):
from identity theft in this manner. But I mean, I
know that I have a blue check mark next to
my name. So if anybody is thinks that they're talking
to Megan King and there's no blue check mark, then
it's not really me. It is different now, I guess different, Yeah,
I guess in that sense, right, well, yeah, and to
pretend to be ye, to pretend to be you, But
then people could still catfish on the other side. But
(15:28):
I mean, I was just talking to somebody who's she
was a model, a former model and not like a
you know, career model. I don't think. But and her
image was used on like a porn side or something,
and it was so misleady, she sued and one. But
I mean that was you know, for monetary purposes. This
is for personal gain, this story, so like, how do
(15:50):
you put a number, like a dollar amount of damages
on that. It's just it's a nuanced case, oh my gosh,
which I think most of them are. So you had
a heavy hand in like you know, reverse researching the
phone number and like figuring out who this person was,
finding her parents. Do you think that because you had
to do that at such a young age, high stakes,
that helped you with Brooks on Housewives, gosh, and discovering
(16:13):
me you didn't have cancer cancer scam on the Housewives.
What a trip that was. I mean, okay, I think
it's like, I think there's a few things here. First
of all, it's my personality. I just want I I
like the truth. I care so much about the truth.
I'm a Libra too, so it works with the scales.
I want to balance and justice and fairness, and it's
just not fair to steal somebody's identity. And I had
(16:35):
time on my hands and have children. I was right
out of college and I wanted to protect my siblings,
you know. So it was like I think it came
from a place of loyalty for my family and like
and also knowing that if there was something I could do,
I was going to do it because that's because justice.
(16:55):
And and then when the whole Brooks things came out
came out, my ex husband begged me to stay away
from it, begged me. He was like this, this could
be really bad if you were saying somebody doesn't have
cancer and he's saying he is. He's saying he's going
to chemo, he's going to get his scans, like he's
saying all of this, and I'm saying, you're a liar.
(17:18):
Like that is that is cancel culture right there? Like that?
And so I there was the stakes were very high
in this situation, and I had to tell my husband
at the time, I promise I won't look into it anymore.
Well I did, like, I guess what, he doesn't have cancer.
I was like, oh, okay. So I was like calling
(17:38):
all of these hospitals and imaging centers and pretending like
I was like a family member or at just getting information.
But I couldn't get all the information because I didn't
have access. But you know who does have more access
than me, an investigative journalist. So I contacted an investigative
(17:59):
journalist at E and the two of us we spoke
on the phone back and forth and back and forth,
and I gave her all of the evidence I had,
and I told her because she was going to interview
this guy in the air and I said, he's going
to answer this way when he does respond like this,
And she had access to more places than I did.
(18:21):
That's who ultimately discovered that that was crazy? What right?
Oh my goodness, No one really knows that because what
you see on the Housewives is just me kind of
like kind of looking like a psycho, which you do
kind of have to be a psycho if you're going
to unearth something like this, like the a lie to
that's this involved. If you lie about cancer, that's very involved.
(18:44):
So if you're going to uncover that, yeah, you really
have to put your mind to it. And I did,
but by the reunion. By the time the reunion came around,
I was I still wasn't able to actually prove like
everyone was under the impression that Okay, he's faking cancer,
but I couldn't act to prove it, and I wasn't
so I wasn't done yet. That's why I've been contacted
e and we got down to the bottom of it.
(19:06):
So it was the next season that it was okay,
So it came it never came out on The Real
Housewives Wrange County specifically, it came out on this like
special in depth investigation on the news okay, And then
by the time the next season came around, it was
just common knowledge and and the Vicky and Brooks who
was faking cancer had broken up and he like fled
(19:27):
to Florida so he could go call somebody else, which
Florida seems like the perfect state for that. Absolutely good riddance.
That's crazy. Oh my gosh, you've had the craziest life.
What is it? I don't know what is doing us?
(19:51):
Did everyone know on The Housewives that he was faking? Like,
did everyone feel it or he just knew? Everyone kind
of hated me because I was going after him, not everyone. Tarma,
of course, was on my side. I feel like Tarma
kind of nudged me to it a little bit, but ultimately,
no Initially we had a psychic come and they was like,
I don't think Brooks has cancer. And I put a
(20:14):
lot of faith in psychics for whatever that's where it's
good or bad. But that was kind of like the
catalyst that pushed me. Your kids are going to be
so well protected no matter what. Their girlfriends and boyfriends
are going to be vetted and oh my god, I'm
not kidding. I do background checks on every single person
(20:34):
I date. You do smart. Well, thank you so much
for coming on. This was amazing and so interesting. I'm
glad everyone's okay and safe and like nothing happened. But yeah,
thanks for having me. And if you talk to Chelsea,
let me know what she's up to. I'd be interested
to see if she's like ever catfished anybody else or
if it was like one and done. Yeah, hopefully I
(20:55):
know what she's doing these days. Hopefully mind your own
damn business. I'm gonna do my best it because I
would be amazing. Yeah. Well, thank you again, thank you,
And where can people? You just launched a new podcast,
did Yeah? It relaunched relaunched, Yes, but it's it's intimate
knowledge and you find out on I Heart Radio. Same
place here or anywhere you get your podcast, and this
time Intimate Knowledge is about my personal dating life and
(21:16):
sex life, and we're going to infuse a lot of
humor and you guys are going to hear things you've
never heard before. And this is not safe for Instagram.
It's certainly not safe for work, So put your headphones on, ladies,
because the children do not need to hear what I
have to say. I'm so excited, I'm so prude, so
I can't wait. Oh you're gonna die. Your ear is
gonna beleeve. But for the Bachelor fans, because you know
(21:40):
I'm am from the Bachelor, Mike Johnson will be on
there and Megan is going on a date with him tonight,
so stay tuned to listen. We might go have a
drink after this. So fun, I'm spilling all the tea. Well,
thank you again, Thanks, thank you so much for listening,
and be sure to follow us on Instagram at True
in Reality. Until next time, h
Welcome to True Crime Reality with host Caitlin miller Keys.
Things are about to get real. Meet Meghan King, former
housewife of Orange County before Sea and mother of three.
But who knew she was once the target of a
crazy catfish and how a serial stalker led Meghan and
her family down a dangerous path that led to police intervention.
(00:24):
Caitlin miller Key's investigates on True Crime Reality. Hello everyone,
and welcome back to the True Crime Reality podcast. I
have a very exciting guest today, Megan King. And you
know her from the Real Housewives of Orange County, but
maybe what you didn't know is she was involved with
a pretty crazy cat fishing story. So, Megan, do you
(00:46):
want to tell everyone a little bit about yourself before
we jump into it. Yeah? Thanks for having me. I'm
excited to be here and talk about my true crime
story on your podcast. Um so yeah, I, like you said,
it was on The Real Housewives Orange County. But a
lot has changed since I was on that show. So
since that happened, I have had twin boys and um
(01:07):
and so I'm I've gotten divorced, I'm a single mom
of three, and I'm a disability advocate. My son has
cerebral palsy. I um, I'm I guess what they say.
It's called an influencer these days, and I um, and
I work. I do a lot of brand partnerships with
companies like Amazon and um um gosh, who else, Polly Pocket, Mattel,
(01:31):
you know things like that. So I'm kind of just
like have my toe in a lot of different projects
right now. That's awesome, sounds like a super mom. I also,
I guess I'm an influencer, and I can't imagine doing
with kids. I barely get stuff done. It's a lot,
it really and you know what, like there's just no balance.
I'm just constantly going, going, going. I mean, right now
my kids are at home with a nanny and that
(01:52):
makes me really sad. But you know, if otherwise I
wouldn't be here talking to you. There's you know, at
least my kids can see them working. Yeah, so I
can show them on single bonds can do it and
we don't have to We don't have to rely on
anybody else. We can't figure it out except nanny's. Yeah. No,
I love that. That's amazing. Thanks so jumping into it.
I am so excited to talk about this UM, it's wild.
(02:16):
I've read it briefly. I don't want to read too
much because I want you to tell the story. Um,
but can you take us back to how it all started,
how the catfishing began. This is crazy because I just
recently got into the story on my podcast with the
creator of Catfish, Nieve Schulmann. So I'm gonna start away
at the beginning because this is it's crazy because you know,
(02:37):
people know me from the Real Housewives Orange County, but
what they don't know is that my brother is also
a famous personality. And my brother he's he's a supermodel
in New York, eight years younger than me, and this
is a story about what happened to him and how
I was involved. So initially, UM, this wasn't about two
thousand and seven or two thousand eight. Um, the inner
(03:00):
I had been around. I just graduated from college and
Facebook was still, you know, very simple, not what it
is today, and it was basically just you know, kind
of like the homepage and the basic information about oneself
and like maybe it's just a smattering of photos. And
so it turns out there there's like some weird things
(03:20):
going on. So r J, my brother he had seen that. Okay,
there's been some um weird He's got some weird messages
about people saying, well, this isn't you you have a
fake page, but you know this is it's back before
blue check marks whatever. You know. Nobody thought twice about it,
like it will just disappear whatever. No, to quite quite contrary.
(03:44):
So what happened was we started, you know, kind of
seeing this what's going on? And I actually got a
message from from his girl named Chelsea. I can say
your name because it's public now and it's been public
for years now. So Chelsea, I was saying, I think
somebody has a fake page about your brother. And I'm like, gosh,
(04:06):
thank you so much for telling me I look into
this fake fake page. Are is young at this point?
What what am? I'm like twenty two and r J
is eight years younger than me, So he was what
what was that sixteen years old? And so he's in
high school and this is before he became this you know,
big supermodel he is today. And my ID and I
also had to we had two sisters in college at
(04:28):
Auburn at the time. Now that's important and I'll get
back to that, but that is important to know. They
played soccer there, so r J um that. You know,
this girl reaches out to me and I start looking
into it, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is deep.
Not only does r J have a face fake Facebook page,
I have one, my sisters both have one, our friends,
(04:49):
our cousins, everyone, everyone. And no, it wasn't just like
a little a little page. They were in depth. We
were making status updates, we were making posts. Well, turns
out her in her story, my sisters and myself we
died in a car accident, so there we go. Makes
it a whole lot easier. So this woman, her name
(05:10):
is Chelsea. Like I said, it was almost like she
had that like serial killer mentality, you know how serial killers.
And I learned this from True Crime Products podcast on
my own serial killers like they kind of leave clues,
like they kind of want to see, like they'll collect
their name in newspaper articles or things like that, like
creepy stuff, Like they kind of want people to leave
(05:31):
breadcrumbs so people have a little bit of a trail
but not be found out. Well that's what this. I
feel like this check Chelsea was doing. So once I
uncovered that, Okay, all roads lead back to this woman
named Chelsea. I'm like, I gotta figure out she's young,
she's like fourteen. This is not the story I was expecting.
(05:52):
So this is all pre Orange County two thousand seven.
I wasn't yes, fourteen years old. So I I'm an investigator.
It's just who I am. And so I do a
deep dive. I'm like reverse searching her phone number, I
figure out who her dad is. I figure out her
mom is, her stepdad, and I call their their business,
(06:15):
the parents business, and I'm like, You've got to get
your daughter to stop doing this. Well can you imagine
if you get a call from a stranger out of
the blue, from a state, like from Missouri where who
the hell knows where I was as far as they're concerned,
And then I'm saying, your daughter is making up a
fake account. Like these parents don't even know what Facebook
is at this point, and so they don't even know
(06:37):
what to do or how to handle this. And it
didn't stop. Like this girl has. It has a very
intense you know, like a story, fake story happening here.
And she did it all too because it turns out
she was a lesbian and she wasn't out yet, and
she was trying to, you know, flirt with other women
in this way by using my beautiful, gorgeous, perfect, amazing
brother's little face and I know, totally crazy. Turns out
(07:03):
there is no laws. We called the FBI, We called
the local police in Alabama, called the local police in
Missouri and wherever. There's no laws that prevent at this
time that would prevent this from happening or we had
no rights. My little brother had no rights to protect
his identity from this fake story that was out there.
And that's impersonating, like you're you're fully impersonating someone still identity,
(07:29):
thank you. That's what I was looking for, like identity fraud,
that there's got to be something, and there's gotta be,
but there's wasn't. And plus it across state boundaries. So
we're like, is it a federal crime? Like I was
pursuing all avenues. Yeah, yeah. My dad's a lawyer, like
he was in like, we're all in on this. Well
it was so we couldn't do anything about it. We
knew this was going on. My sisters going back to
(07:51):
the their Auburn attendance, they played soccer at Auburn Now,
this girl, Chelsea was from like Tuscaloosa, Alabama or some
small town Alabama. She was a huge so her fan,
which was convenient because my sisters are phenomenal soccer players
and one of them went on to play pro for
ten years. So Chelsea, for some reason, we know she's
(08:11):
going to their soccer game. There's nothing we can do
about it. And how creepy is that this girl who's stock? Yeah,
that stocker status. I don't understand. Auburn had to hire
extra security for that game because we were of the
King family, was afraid for our personal safety. And how
did you know that she was coming to the soccer
I don't really remember. I don't know if she told
somebody or she posted about it. Sure enough she was there.
(08:34):
And yeah, so fast forward, I'm at a party in
New York. It's years later, about four years later, so
it's about twelve, let's say, and I'm um at a
party in New York hanging out with my little brother.
At this point, he had moved to New York because yeah,
he was about eight. He was just killing it in
(08:54):
this on the Supermodel scene, which was like so serendipitous
that Chelsea shows my brother of all people to be
this big person who then goes on and becomes this beautiful,
gorgeous supermodel, right and lo and behold who is at
this party but Nive Schulman. Now, at this time, Neive
hadn't created the series Catfish on MTV, but he had
(09:17):
a documentary called Catfish, which was his personal story of
how he was catfished. So of course I just magnetically
drawn to him, and I'm like, listen to this, can
you imagine how many times that happened? But like, I'm
just like another drop in the bucket. So I'm telling
me the story that we just talked about, and I'm like,
you have to do something about this you have, And
(09:37):
Nive's kind of like, okay, yeah, I don't know. I know. Well,
Neive and I stay in touch. We still are to
this day actually, and he turns out he's like, I'm
going to pitch the show and I want that story
with Arjane Chelsea to be my pilot episode. Oh wow, yeah,
And it was and it was. So he films the
(09:57):
whole Catfish episode with Arjie and Chelsea, very first episode
ever to be on Catfish. Chelsea agreed. Chelsea agreed, but only.
But there was one caveat she had to stop stalking
her family and guess what, boom need. The police didn't work,
the law didn't work, but catfish. Yes, So what happened
(10:30):
in those four years? Like you said, fast forward four years?
She still continued to update Facebook and pretended to it
just like continued to snowball. I also don't understand why, Like,
if you want to flit with women, why not just
have your brother? Like why do you need the whole family,
the cousins, the friends, you know? I think it makes
it more believable. I just watched a documentary recently with
man Tito and how he was completely catfished as well,
(10:53):
and it was kind of it was very reminiscent of
the story that I just shared with you. It was
so involved, there were so many characters, family members. So
I just think that it makes it more believable. That's crazy,
the lengths that she went to just to flirt with women.
I mean, it's sociopathic. And if it wasn't sociopathic, it
(11:14):
would be it would be like I would be giving
her extraordinary props for doing this, But it's it was
hurting a lot of it was hurting us and it's
creepy and unnerving. Yeah, like when you're being stocked, you're
being impersonated, like there's so many things going on, not
just your brother, not just you. It's like everyone in
your life is now involved in this, and we were dead.
You'll get this. Get this. So if you go back
(11:35):
and watch the episode, you'll see this. And this is
like the crazy ship. Like I don't know how people
believe this stuff. So I guess like Chelsea was talking
to you know whoever girl she wanted to on the phone,
and I think the girl was like, well, why do
you sound like a girl? And I think the reason
she gave was because r J got in a car
accident with his three sisters in Florida. I don't know
(11:57):
how Florida got involved in this. All three US girls
died and r J. It affected r J's voice box,
like he got hurt and affected his voice box and
therefore he sounded like a woman. This is unbelievable, Like, actually,
I have so many questions and then they're like there's
too many running to my brain. Her parents never did anything,
(12:19):
but then she was on Catfish, the first ever episode
of this show that blew up. Did they nothing? I
don't know. I mean that's a good question. Maybe we
should reach out to I'm done. But and you haven't
heard from her since, Like there's nothing, no contact. I
don't think we have. Um No, I don't believe we
have heard from you know. At the end of the episode,
(12:39):
r J agreed to face time with Chelsea, and so
that was like kind of like a like a sense
of closure I think for him. Did she apologize? I
kind of think she did, but it just doesn't feel
it just didn't feel genuine because like she got all
this fame out of it. Yeah. Also, I mean it
turned into something right, like how are turned into a model?
(13:00):
How my sisters turned into a pro soccer player? Like
it kind of always this perfect storm and just like
just like all of that. I mean, Catfish is on
its tenth season now, I mean that's got to be like,
if not the most popular show on MTV one of them,
I agree that is. And she picked like the perfect family,
(13:21):
the model, the housewife, any of that any time. She
just like half of my other sister was on the
amazing Race, Oh my god. So it's like she picked
this family that's like very like I don't know. We're
all in entertainment randomly. And do you know how she
came about r J? She just stumbled upon him on Facebook. Okay,
(13:41):
this is my theory. I think that because she's such
a huge soccer fan and she was a fan of
Alabama and Alabama's rival is Auburn, she was probably probably
familiarized herself with the team. You know who was on
the Auburn team? Heat on my brother through Oh yeah, wow,
I totally when I saw this, at first I thought
(14:03):
it was someone who was obsessed with you from the
Housewives and then catfished through and like was using your name.
I I was not expecting this. Yeah it was my
little brother. I mean I was catfished as well in this,
but I was just a peripheral figure like to help
support my brother's cat fishing story. Yeah. It was completely
wild and it was it was like strange for our
(14:24):
family to even talk about because it just left us
very uneasy. You know, we didn't have a sense of
safety when that happens, and there was nothing we could do,
and that has to be so terrifying, Like you calling
the police, the FBI, all of these people and no
one will do one thing for you. They can't and
you're like, I'm endangered. I feel unsafe. You know, there's
nothing they could do. Like I was reading through the
law as I was trying to figure out where's a
(14:44):
loophole here, Like what who has a jurisdiction over this crime?
Is it a crime? Is it a civil offense or
a criminal offense? Like I put my lawyer hat on,
my fake lawyer had. Yeah, right, I'm like trying to
get to the bottom of it, and now is it
a crimer? It's still so I was talking to me
about this recently and he said that, um, and in
his experience, there's still no laws to really protect people
(15:06):
from identity theft in this manner. But I mean, I
know that I have a blue check mark next to
my name. So if anybody is thinks that they're talking
to Megan King and there's no blue check mark, then
it's not really me. It is different now, I guess different, Yeah,
I guess in that sense, right, well, yeah, and to
pretend to be ye, to pretend to be you, But
then people could still catfish on the other side. But
(15:28):
I mean, I was just talking to somebody who's she
was a model, a former model and not like a
you know, career model. I don't think. But and her
image was used on like a porn side or something,
and it was so misleady, she sued and one. But
I mean that was you know, for monetary purposes. This
is for personal gain, this story, so like, how do
(15:50):
you put a number, like a dollar amount of damages
on that. It's just it's a nuanced case, oh my gosh,
which I think most of them are. So you had
a heavy hand in like you know, reverse researching the
phone number and like figuring out who this person was,
finding her parents. Do you think that because you had
to do that at such a young age, high stakes,
that helped you with Brooks on Housewives, gosh, and discovering
(16:13):
me you didn't have cancer cancer scam on the Housewives.
What a trip that was. I mean, okay, I think
it's like, I think there's a few things here. First
of all, it's my personality. I just want I I
like the truth. I care so much about the truth.
I'm a Libra too, so it works with the scales.
I want to balance and justice and fairness, and it's
just not fair to steal somebody's identity. And I had
(16:35):
time on my hands and have children. I was right
out of college and I wanted to protect my siblings,
you know. So it was like I think it came
from a place of loyalty for my family and like
and also knowing that if there was something I could do,
I was going to do it because that's because justice.
(16:55):
And and then when the whole Brooks things came out
came out, my ex husband begged me to stay away
from it, begged me. He was like this, this could
be really bad if you were saying somebody doesn't have
cancer and he's saying he is. He's saying he's going
to chemo, he's going to get his scans, like he's
saying all of this, and I'm saying, you're a liar.
(17:18):
Like that is that is cancel culture right there? Like that?
And so I there was the stakes were very high
in this situation, and I had to tell my husband
at the time, I promise I won't look into it anymore.
Well I did, like, I guess what, he doesn't have cancer.
I was like, oh, okay. So I was like calling
(17:38):
all of these hospitals and imaging centers and pretending like
I was like a family member or at just getting information.
But I couldn't get all the information because I didn't
have access. But you know who does have more access
than me, an investigative journalist. So I contacted an investigative
(17:59):
journalist at E and the two of us we spoke
on the phone back and forth and back and forth,
and I gave her all of the evidence I had,
and I told her because she was going to interview
this guy in the air and I said, he's going
to answer this way when he does respond like this,
And she had access to more places than I did.
(18:21):
That's who ultimately discovered that that was crazy? What right?
Oh my goodness, No one really knows that because what
you see on the Housewives is just me kind of
like kind of looking like a psycho, which you do
kind of have to be a psycho if you're going
to unearth something like this, like the a lie to
that's this involved. If you lie about cancer, that's very involved.
(18:44):
So if you're going to uncover that, yeah, you really
have to put your mind to it. And I did,
but by the reunion. By the time the reunion came around,
I was I still wasn't able to actually prove like
everyone was under the impression that Okay, he's faking cancer,
but I couldn't act to prove it, and I wasn't
so I wasn't done yet. That's why I've been contacted
e and we got down to the bottom of it.
(19:06):
So it was the next season that it was okay,
So it came it never came out on The Real
Housewives Wrange County specifically, it came out on this like
special in depth investigation on the news okay, And then
by the time the next season came around, it was
just common knowledge and and the Vicky and Brooks who
was faking cancer had broken up and he like fled
(19:27):
to Florida so he could go call somebody else, which
Florida seems like the perfect state for that. Absolutely good riddance.
That's crazy. Oh my gosh, you've had the craziest life.
What is it? I don't know what is doing us?
(19:51):
Did everyone know on The Housewives that he was faking? Like,
did everyone feel it or he just knew? Everyone kind
of hated me because I was going after him, not everyone. Tarma,
of course, was on my side. I feel like Tarma
kind of nudged me to it a little bit, but ultimately,
no Initially we had a psychic come and they was like,
I don't think Brooks has cancer. And I put a
(20:14):
lot of faith in psychics for whatever that's where it's
good or bad. But that was kind of like the
catalyst that pushed me. Your kids are going to be
so well protected no matter what. Their girlfriends and boyfriends
are going to be vetted and oh my god, I'm
not kidding. I do background checks on every single person
(20:34):
I date. You do smart. Well, thank you so much
for coming on. This was amazing and so interesting. I'm
glad everyone's okay and safe and like nothing happened. But yeah,
thanks for having me. And if you talk to Chelsea,
let me know what she's up to. I'd be interested
to see if she's like ever catfished anybody else or
if it was like one and done. Yeah, hopefully I
(20:55):
know what she's doing these days. Hopefully mind your own
damn business. I'm gonna do my best it because I
would be amazing. Yeah. Well, thank you again, thank you,
And where can people? You just launched a new podcast,
did Yeah? It relaunched relaunched, Yes, but it's it's intimate
knowledge and you find out on I Heart Radio. Same
place here or anywhere you get your podcast, and this
time Intimate Knowledge is about my personal dating life and
(21:16):
sex life, and we're going to infuse a lot of
humor and you guys are going to hear things you've
never heard before. And this is not safe for Instagram.
It's certainly not safe for work, So put your headphones on, ladies,
because the children do not need to hear what I
have to say. I'm so excited, I'm so prude, so
I can't wait. Oh you're gonna die. Your ear is
gonna beleeve. But for the Bachelor fans, because you know
(21:40):
I'm am from the Bachelor, Mike Johnson will be on
there and Megan is going on a date with him tonight,
so stay tuned to listen. We might go have a
drink after this. So fun, I'm spilling all the tea. Well,
thank you again, Thanks, thank you so much for listening,
and be sure to follow us on Instagram at True
in Reality. Until next time, h
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