Piers Henwood and Tegan discuss information that Fegan had shared with fans.
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ABOUT Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara
Tegan Quin (from Tegan and Sara) has been the victim of identity theft and an ongoing catfishing scam for over 15 years. While investigating, she shares for the first time, how she was ensnared in toxic fan culture that revealed the dark side of fame.
Watch Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara on Hulu!
ABOUT Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara
Tegan Quin (from Tegan and Sara) has been the victim of identity theft and an ongoing catfishing scam for over 15 years. While investigating, she shares for the first time, how she was ensnared in toxic fan culture that revealed the dark side of fame.
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00:00She had been carrying on what she believed was an internet-based relationship with Tegan for two years.
00:07And as I asked what types of information and things had been shared, there were three things I'll never forget she told me.
00:15She told me that she had a song called God Help Yourself, which was a demo Tegan had written a few months ago.
00:21And this was an era where demos were kept under lock and key very carefully.
00:26And so a leak of a demo was a really big deal to us.
00:30And then she told me she had Tegan and Sarah's passports, that fake Tegan had shared passport scans.
00:37And when I saw them, they were the real thing.
00:40And that, of course, completely haunted us, because obviously a passport scan can be the beginning of identity theft.
00:45And then possibly the most alarming thing from a personal standpoint was that she knew that Tegan and Sarah's mom, Sonia, had breast cancer.
00:54The fact that they knew that my mom had had cancer, and that wasn't something we publicly talked about.
00:59It's not something we publicly talk about now.
01:01It was creepy, like it was, because it introduced the idea that it's someone we know.
01:08Is it possible that someone who knows intimate details about me is pretending to be me?
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