The Woman Who Faked Cancer To Scam Her Loved Ones | This Morning
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- Amanda Riley is a wife. A mother. A blogger. And suffering from stage four cancer… at least that’s what she’d like you to believe. For almost a decade Amanda took thousands in donations from loved ones, neighbours, fellow churchgoers and her social media followers, but her cancer diagnosis was all a lie. Her huge financial and emotional scam was eventually uncovered by investigative journalist Nancy Moscatiello, who ultimately helped police put Amanda behind bars. And the story has now been heard around the world in Charlie Webster’s chart-topping podcast ‘Scamanda’. But why did Amanda do this? And how did she get away with it for so long? We’re joined live in the studio by Charlie, who has been speaking to Amanda while she remains in prison, and Nancy joins us DTL to talk about helping rumble this cancer-faking scam.
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As a parent of a 10yr old child who has spent half of her life on chemotherapy this makes me want to scream. Disgusting
sending so much love and light to you and your family ❤
I'm so sorry for you & your little one. I 💯 share your disgust!
As someone who has stage 4 breast cancer I find this awful . No words really to describe her . I will listen to the podcast x
I wish you so well. ❤❤❤
Sending you so much love ❤️ I was diagnosed with BC in April and had my 6th chemo today, surgery next.
I listened to the podcast and it was honestly fascinating for all the wrong reasons. I do recommend it xx
Sending You positive thoughts to beat Your cancer ❤.
@@natalias1513wish You positive thoughts for the remainder of Your treatment 😊.
@dedeescrafts2885 - Same here - mine is Stage 4 too. And as I seem to be doing well and living as normal a life as possible, I sometimes think people don't believe it and think I'm some sort of a fraud too! I'm not, I have good days and bad days like most people do but they don't see me when I'm not so good. Anyway, I'll have to listen to the podcast too. Wishing you well in your treatment plan.
My mum died of cancer and was the kindest sweetest soul. Women like this deserve it not people like my mum 😢
This makes me so mad. From someone who was diagnosed on 07/21/23 with cancer NHL . This story upsets me I go tomorrow for my 4th chemo treatment and having to deal with life as a mom and a wife and a full time worker and struggling just to keep the lights on. This woman is just cruel. Thank goodness she was discovered.
Sending my love you are amazing working full time, mummy and wife and going through all of that! ♥️♥️♥️
sending you so much love my friend ❤❤
Sending love ❤ stay strong in this hard fight 💪🏻🍀
Keep fighting sweetheart!!❤
Thank you for all your kind words. This coming Tuesday is my final chemo. Then scan in a few weeks to see if I'm in remission 🙏
Why would anyone fake that they had cancer. ?. How disrespectful towards all past & present cancer patient's, their friends and family.
Well Done To The Lady Who Called The Police & Exposing her
Money and attention. And she’s pure evil.
Typical narcissist, they never take responsibility for their actions.
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Oh shut up
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Make her pay back all the money she stole via false pretences!
I believe she has to.
I don't care if people forgive this this is absolutely vile and sick and no words nasty evil sick 😡🙄🤮
Completely despicable….. anyone that lies about something so horrendous is absolute scum. I’m fortunate enough to be a breast cancer survivor ❤
Absolutely disgusting! I'm 33 and I've just had a tumor removed and went under a massive surgery!! I found out I had cancer luckily it was removed! The Truma I went through was horrific!! To hear someone has lied about having cancer is very disgusting and absolutely crazy!! If someone can lie about that they are definitely not safe to be on the streets. Terrible so bad!
sending you so much love my sister ❤❤
I lost my wife to cancer 15 years ago this is disrespectful
My condolences 🙏🏽
@@jessicajamesspeaks thanks x
Please accept my condolences. That is so hard to walk through such loss following a medical journey.
I cared for terminally ill patients and saw how they suffered with cancer it was heartbreaking and to see these liars making money out of misery of cancers and fatal diseases why I’m sickened by them
Why is this programme giving her even more 'stardom', this is exactly what she wants!!
She wanted money & postive fame. This show has always shown big stories that aren’t big enough to go on the main news. By showing this they’re showing how clever & extreme scammers can truly be.
She fought very very hard to NOR have this kind of stardom. She wanted to be liked. This will suck for her. And her Husband needs to be held accountable
People need to hear this story so that their money doesn’t end up in the wrong hands.
So that there is nowhere she can go where people don't know her scam.
She's been exposed as a scam artist.
She used her fake illness to manipulate in a custody dispute too. No one can undo that damage.
@pnwlady Exactly. And it happens more often than you think with many women lying about illness, SA, DV and so many other things out of revenge & they do not care about hurting their own kids or the man involved. That is why I won't follow the herd running to side with women out of solidarity anymore because I know all too well what narcissistic mean girls can do. It has to stop.
As a Cancer survivor myself , I'm finding it hard to be compassionate to a person that does this. There unfortunately is people still fighting this terrible disease that have no way out!! Its a death sentence for so many people!! The adverse effects the treatments can have isnt something you would wish anyone to have to go through at all!! I feel really sad that someone would stoop so low!! For all the survivors and the people going through this or have lost someone , I'm sending my thoughts to you all. 🌸
There has been quite a bit of this individuals lying about having cancer...angers me- my grandmother passed away to cancer.....this lieyers don't have a clue the harm they are causing to current cancer cases. 😞😠
Nope they don’t. My great aunt died three days before thanksgiving last year due to colon cancer that spread everywhere including her lungs. There was nothing more that could be done and she was in hospice for about a week before she passed. Just lying about being extremely sick when they aren’t baffles my mind. Wonder if they actually get cancer in the future? They won’t get any help then.
Was she charged with child abuse? Her poor children were told their mother was going to die and people were telling them to prep for losing their mom. So cruel.
That’s horrible, how can someone do that
My friends helped her, took care of her kids, brought meals....incredible!
Hi I'm her cousin and she had us all fooled we donated hundreds to her GoFundMe we sent gifts etc we have all disowned her she's a terrible person.
😢 that must give some trust issues 😣 i would be do angry or disappointed hope they still will help people in real need ❤
Never regret kindness just bcs someone is a psychopath
How can she even sleep at night? Just shocking and sad.
She was sleeping on a pile of ill-gotten money.
Just close your eyes..
Zero conscience!
What if she actually has cancer for real after her fake cancer diagnosis. Clearly she's twisted
Such people should not get any airtime. Dispeakable 😢
Evil
My grandma died from lung cancer so mad rn anyone that fakes cancer is disgusting
Thats just sick .
I knew somebody who did this - so interesting and traumatic for loved ones, she faked hair loss from chemotherapy
Horrible sorry I went through it
I read that she even used her diagnosed to sway the judges decisions in her at that time boyfriends divorce by making the judge think that it would be so horrible on her illness to watch her man lose his house and not get full custody of his daughter. Then she used her blog to send flying monkeys at the ex wife saying that her demanding custody of her daughter ( not Amanda's) was making her illness worse and that she was a terrible person for doing this to a cancer patient.
Absolutely appalling she should be locked up and the key thrown away.
I agree! I lost my grandmother to lung cancer in 2005 and it still feels like it happened yesterday! Despicable is not even the right word to describe someone who would engage in something so heartless 😡
How exciting for you two, Co-Hosts.
There's been lots who have lied about having cancer, Maddy Russo, Belle Gibson are 2 names but theres so so many out there. Its scary that people do this. There's innocent people who actually have cancer and need help qnd and supp😊
I really hope this "Karen" enjoys time in prison and should NOT be released and NOT given probation
We should be allowed to see verified medical records from the people that share their illnesses online. Doctor patient confidentiality goes out the window when you tell a sad story of your diagnosis to the world in order to get money and attention
I'm disgusted with this story, I lost 2 family members to Cancer
My nan had breast cancer stage 3 she died in 8 months 😢 worst pain ever seeing my nan going down each day and people like that to fake it its horrible to have people are like that disgusting people out there now going through cancer 😢
Really fantastic podcast, highly recommend.
There have been many women who fake cancer all you have to do is put fake cancer victims and they all pop up even on TH-cam. I am all ways amazed when people act shocked that anyone would do something like this the world is full of weirdos .
Sick just sick there is no excuse
She also did it to help get custody of her husbands daughter and get reduced child support payments.
I enjoyed listening to the podcast.
Cool video, My relationship of 5 years ended a month ago. The love of my life decided to leave me, I really love her so much I can’t stop thinking about her, I’ve tried my very best to get her back in my life, but to no avail, I’m frustrated, I don’t see my life with anyone else. I’ve done my best to get rid of the thoughts of her, but I can’t, I don’t know why I’m saying this here, I really miss her and just can’t stop thinking about her.
Thank you for this valuable information, i just looked her up now online. impressive.
Hope you’re okay. You will get through
Don’t worry we are all here for you ❤
Belle Gibson is another one!!
Yeah I saw that Australia programme about her . Absolutely shocking .
Belle Gibson makes Amanda look like an absolute amateur; she had a book deal and was published by Penguin, she also had a deal for an App with Apple (luckily she was exposed before they paid her) and people donated time and money to her. She ended up getting a slap on the wrist and a fine by the court, and to date, hasn't paid a cent of the fine. She should have been jailed too.
I still don't understand how she got caught
I can’t even bring myself to watch all of this.
I found out one of my best friends had cancer just before covid, covid happened and he passed away within a year of being diagnosed and being high risk during covid couldn’t see anyone.
This makes me so angry😓
I know someone that did this 😬 it's really truly horrible
People need to stop glorifying cancer
I listened to the podcast Scamanda....and all I can say is wow!!!
The question is WHY ?
Money
Money and attention
..what some people won't do to 'win'.. 😮
I dont understand why anyone would want to do this but especially not a Mother. That’s child abuse as well as everything else.
You can't fake Cancer or any illness... It's a crime and you can get into trouble and jail time. 🤦
Wrong. It's not illegal to lie. This is on the podcast, so you are incorrect. Her crime was wire fraud from taking online money.
But is this really even close to as bad as oncologists who treat patients with deadly cancer treatments to fill a quota at the cancer center for cancers that should not be treated in the first place?
Did it never occur to these fakers that they could actually get cancer one day. And how would people react, knowing that they once faked it ?
It's a GREAT podcast! Highly recommend!
The US had a president who got into power by doing the same sort of thing, just not claiming an illness.
Ummm No word's can't define it
I think this kind of compulsive lying can be a psychiatric disorder in some way. They start off doing it with a plan or purpose and then they start believing their own lies and can’t stop lying (like a compulsion) all the time afterwards. I am not making any excuses for her and think she should have got an even harsher sentence! That is despicable behaviour.
but it's all about money with this person, if it was just about lying she wouldn't be to keep asking for money constantly. I think there are a lot of scammers out there who lie about dating, health, crimes, drugs, being poor, identity etc all just to scam people out of money, they will keep up the lie to keep getting the donations.
@@aurora6920 You’re probably right. I don’t even like to think that there are such people in this world. It makes me shudder.
And Facebook we had as well
Idk if anyone does this to anyone who they love so more likely “from the ones who love her”
Make Alison and Dermot the permanent presenters!
Could it be Münchausen syndrome.
Not a bad scam a shame she got caught now shes behind 😠 bars she could be living in tenerife
Whats her name?
sorry about the weather in Nz at the moment. Water anyone?
Scam-Manda
Believe all women 🙋♂️
A cancer scammer not named Boogie?
2012 was PEAK Instagram.. 🤦
Could Kate Middleton be the next scamanda ? Because she looks perfect for someone with cancer who was on chemotherapy
Scamanda - great podcast. I'd love a follow up. Unbelievable that someone can do what she did and get away with it for so long.
If this was a male … I can bet my life on it that he would have been gone for life at least… Unless that male was millionaire or got connections
Charlie Webster is beautiful
Like Suki in Eastenders :-(
This is a classic psychopath charming so sweet them boom they got you
Google belle Gibson!
Munchaussens?.
What she did is wrong but it should hardly be considered a crime. Are we gonna send actors who portrayed cancer patients to prison? It's not her fault those people decided to give her money
Correct. It's not a crime. It's a horrendous crime! That said, I'd prefer her not to serve time. She's possibly troubled herself. Community service, and monetary fines would be better.
Not a crime at all
But sinful
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Um, what?
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Film could sick girl is it based on this story
What? Your post makes no sense.
@@donnabaardsen5372 I think maybe it meant to say: the film called “Sick Girl”, is it based on this story?
"You was actually there" - a TV presenter can't even get the basic grammar right.
Joseph and today TV 😀
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Karma will get them. The laws should be very strict against liars!
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needs psychiatric help not prison. The woman is ill. Need a more evolved approach. love and light
I agree. Probably fictitious disorder or similar. Something is lacking inside her for her to do this....sad really.
But she stole money.
That’s criminal insanity.
If she murdered someone, would she also only need psychiatric help.
I’m confused as to why people think she’s lying,she could truly believe she has cancer,diagnosis or not,she actually helped others,I’m very shocked she was sentenced on such flimsy evidence
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Such as medical records? real flimsy evidence, seriously!!!
Wow lmao
Lmfao bless you, you didnt get the amount of attention you so desperately wanted here in the comments , I will give you that attention !! 😴😴😴😴🤡🤡🤡🥴🥴🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Amanda is that you
My sister is a big liar like that she never tells the truth and then I had a friend when I was young, who used to lie that her dad had big bags of money in the basement that her dad fell off a bill even got a lot of money and that shewas adopted all kinds of crazy stuff wow