Chapter 157

Soon, more people began submitting posts, claiming they had been inspired by someone else speaking up—they said it gave them the courage to come forward too, to expose Maria's so-called misdeeds. The accusations were more or less the same: Maria acting like a diva on set. One person claimed he tried to push back, but she threatened him, telling him if he dared to speak out, she’d kill him. “She said it so casually, I literally got goosebumps. I mean, who does that nowadays? At first, I brushed it off, but then she mentioned James. Her exact words were something like their relationship was... complicated. She made it sound like James could make someone disappear with a snap of his fingers. That freaked me out. I’ve been living in fear ever since—paranoid, depressed… I ended up diagnosed with severe depression.” And with “pics, proof and witnesses,” the internet ran with it. People took it as pure fact. Suddenly, James and his entire company got dragged into the mess. The story rocketed