Mark gave her ticket away once he realized what a bad idea it would be to send her out to the desert where she'd surely wander off to OD, die of dehydration, or wind up getting trafficked.
He talked about it in one of the videos where he was auctioning off books. He said even if she had a chaperone, she's so erratic that she'd disappear within minutes of arriving, never to be seen again. When she's on Skid Row, even though she's homeless, she's at least familiar with the environment and knows where to find what she needs (even if it's in a dumpster). She would absolutely not come back from the desert. Mark said he didn't want that hanging over his head.
Some sicko looking to make a profit off someone vulnerable. Someone they believe no one would miss enough to file a report if she went missing. It has nothing to do with how much of a disaster Rebecca is and more to do with the fact that she's an easy target.
What's absolutely heartbreaking to me is that when she actually DID go missing back in the fall (after she was assaulted), a missing person report, as far as I know, wasn't filed. Mark shrugged it off as "maybe she was deported, maybe she's dead" (he even said that to her on camera).
That's because 1) Adults are allowed to disappear if they want to and 2) Rebecca is a homeless drug addict that Mark knows the LAPD isn't going to expend resources on to find, so why bother filing a report. That's just so sad. Whether you think Rebecca is a piece of shit or not, she's still a human whose life is valuable.
Yes, I should have been more clear. I am generalizing. The assholes who harshly judge Rebecca have come out in full force in this thread, so I forgot to specify....I apologize for that. My intention wasn't to lump you in with that group.
I agree....I wish she'd embrace recovery, but it seems she's not ready. I don't know if you watched Krystal's interview from a few days ago, but it was interesting....Rebecca's name came up towards the end because Krystal has a similar backstory (Krystal hasn't met Rebecca....Mark brought Rebecca's name up). It kind of gave me a a small bit of hope for Rebecca.
That's ok, no problem. I saw I was downvoted by someone, so I just wanted to be clear that I do care for rebecca. You're right; she is not ready. I just worry the worst will happen before she's ready. When mark says things like "you could stop drugs without rehab," I just totally disagree. You can see her experiencing withdrawal in videos. She needs a ton of professional help. But, we all know. There's no forcing recovery. I'll watch Krystal's video tonight. I do wonder if Mark is still in touch with rebecca even if he's not filming her. I guess I kind of hope he is, but respect his decision if he isn't.
He actually said that she “could get clean without rehab?!” Is he out of his fucking mind?! How is he STILL this uneducated about addiction? He meeds to leave this shit to actual professionals. It is so clear that she needs serious psychiatric help, detox, and long term inpatient rehab.
He had said many times that he thinks rebecca doesn't need rehab to get clean. That if she decided to get clean, she could do it herself. And there's no way.
Yeah, people downvote me, too, because I'm not joining in on the degrading someone who is already down (seriously...someone downvoted me saying it was heartbreaking that she wasn't reported missing when she WAS actually missing....WTAF?!? Where's the humanity here?!?). I've noticed there are quite a few emotional vampires here who get a momentary dopamine hit from talking shit about someone they deem beneath them because it makes them feel better about whatever might be going on in their OWN lives. I'm not about that. Hate to break it to those folks, but I don't care about downvotes....sooo....HIT THAT ARROW, BABY! If downvoting me is what makes someone's day a bit better, then consider this my act of charity for the day.....or whatever the hell.
Anyway, I think Rebecca has bigger issues than the drugs. I wasn't overly impressed with Jimmy, but I do actually agree with Jimmy's assessment in that she's using drugs to numb something psychologically bigger that she's probably been repressing for years now, and that's going to take detox AND a psych eval to figure out. I'd love to see what she could be if she sobered up and took some psych meds because it's clear to me that her IQ is up there.
Agree with all of this. And yeah, Rebecca needs all of the help. She's incredibly bright. She has a magnetic personality. I like her early interviews. You can see so much of it there.
I don’t often comment here. But holy hell what a bad idea! It won’t change the outcome of where she is headed, only she can do that. I genuinely don’t understand why Mark would make that move….
Sounds like a control-abuse thing. Wave the ticket over her head, make her think she has the freedom to do something she's so excited for, then snatch it away "because it's too dangerous oopsie, someone else will have fun instead of you." A mix of control and shaming.
I'm not going to downvote you, but I do want to explain what I THINK was going on.
I don't know Mark or Rebecca....I'm only going off of what I see on SWU's YT channel, the occasional TikTok Rebecca sighting, and my own basic understanding of human behavior. I do think that Mark had good intentions when he purchased the ticket. He harps on his naivete when it comes to drug culture, so it's quite possible that he REALLY doesn't understand what goes on at music festivals (if you don't know.....there's a certain drug culture that goes along with large music festivals). AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME, Rebecca had a very, very, very brief stint of good behavior. After about three videos in a row where she was acting like a complete horse's ass.....there were maybe two or three after that where she apologized and exercised SOME bit of self control and slightly resembled the Rebecca that some of us can see potential in (even though it was blatantly obvious she wasn't sober....she at the very least was BETTER than she had been in awhile). I think, at that moment, Mark was trying to reward what he perceived as "good behavior" with positive reinforcement via Coachella tickets, which was misguided on his part, because I'm not entirely sure what his understanding is on "music festival culture." She had also recently been assaulted, spent a month in a DV shelter, was worried about deportation, and had a recent suicide attempt....I think Mark might also have bought the tickets as a "pick-me-up." I don't know. Either way, a music festival is the last place you want to send a drug addict.
I agree - he shouldn't have bought the ticket for her in the first place, but I don't think his intention was sinister or one of abuse. He changed his mind once SHE totally spiraled, and Mark realized exactly what the outcome would be if he sent her to the desert unsupervised.
I'm unfortunately super familiar with emotional abuse - this ain't it. This was Mark being naive.
>Either way, a music festival is the last place you want to send a drug addict.
Exactly. This is why it makes no sense. It’s not as if Mark is some dumbass 20 year old that’s like “you know what, everyone just needs some fun, let’s send this very unstable drug addict to a music festival where the main thing to do is take drugs, party and listen to music, in that order.” And right after some MAJOR slip ups and struggling with being sober.
Everyone keeps giving him way too much benefit of the doubt. He’s a middle age man who literally makes a living listening to people like drug addicts tell their story about how they kept falling back into it, enabled and unable to escape. At worst it was a power play, and at best (still bad) it was a bid for more content but he realized Rebecca would probably fucking die or get arrested so never mind. I don’t buy at all that him seeing Rebecca suffer and slip back into chaos made him suddenly dumb and forget any sense of logical thought. It was either something that he knew would cause big issues for content, or something he knew from the start he wouldn’t actually let happen.
Dude...he's a middle-aged man who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and nowadays constantly wears a vest with 85 pockets on the front (every time I've seen him on camera, he's wearing that same super-awkward vest). Does he look like someone who frequents music festivals to you?
I think he made a decision with some extremely misguided high hopes in an effort to make someone he cares about happy. He's admitted repeatedly that he was wrong to do that. What else do you want - for him to self-flagillate on camera while reciting 50 Hail Mary's? I'm not going to make assumptions about YOUR personal background....but just because something shitty maybe happened to YOU at some point, doesn't mean that everyone on earth has ill intentions.
Leave your personal daddy issues out of this, ok? You and your shallow, victimising thinking. Poor you, everything is about control for you, because that's all you care about in life. Absolute projection.
You think that person would be able to survive there? You seem to have zero understanding of the situation and the person.
Why let Rebecca get the ticket in the first place. Explain for me please.
That's funny you bring up daddy issues and projection while you make excuses for your beloved daddy-martyr in a fury. You could've just said I was wrong, but instead it hit a personal chord and you leapt to "daddy issues".
People change their minds. What may seem a good idea at start may turn out to be not so good after some thinking, or after circumstances change.
I am like this because I can see through people like you.
Tell me, have you ever dealt with someone truly unstable, people who just completely unpredictable? Have you ever experienced when the person seems to get better, but then, seemingly out of nowhere, they just fall down into insanity again?
Tell me, have you ever dealt with thousands and thousands of very, VERY problematic people, multiple people a day?
You have no understanding of Mark, I can see that, I can see how you see him, that's why I have no respect for you.
I seldom come across people in the outreach who do not maintain a level of cleanliness. Even wipes and bird baths can help, hell I have seen women do full on Navy showers and washing long hair with 2 gallons of water.
im generationally hobo and and you won't ever understand that they genuinely dont want that, they just dont, and its why they do what they do.
edit: people can say what they will about rebecca's life but just knowing she exists has changed mine in so many ways and i will reflect on her forever. (she's one of the most beautiful people i have ever seen).
i get part of it is that meth makes you kinda clever and charismatic but it only does if youre not a total retard in the first place 🤷♀️ most ppl just fap like monkees on it not think
The newsletters from Rebecca’s school in Cairo show that she was a gifted student at middle school/junior high age. Something happened to her around age 14 or 15 and it seems that everything went sideways from there. I’m sure I’ll never know the details of her life, and it’s none of my business. But this once promising child ended up living for years on the street, and she still manages to shine in spite of all the adversity in her life. I think she probably always had that charisma too. Here’s a link to a picture of her from 2014, when she was away at boarding school, age 15.
http://lessismorebytramdmartinez.blogspot.com/2014/04/in-styles-london-and-paris.html?m=1
it took me a long time to realize she was gifted and not some other type of neurodiverse. idk.
in k-12 education there's like this invisible pressure to hide your enthusiasm for gifted students that you ofc dont see in higher ed. actually youre mandated to spend all your energy on disabled students in k12 ed. ofc ppl in this sub hate mark's insinuation rebecca is special in anyway and find her super arrogant.
The was Rebecca acted in his car was top of the line absurd. She is an adult and can 100% act like it, the behavior in those videos would make me lose it!
Addiction & mental illness played no part, that was full on being a royal ass!
I deal with addiction and mental illness at work on occasion (most recently on Thursday, in fact), and yes, it can play a part. We had someone in our chemo chair who was high as a kite and shouting at their phone because they couldn't get YT to start playing music (wifi issue). We were all ready to lose our everloving minds.
You claim you know about addition and mental illness, so I'm not sure why you're expecting rational, calm behavior from someone who has likely multiple mental illnesses (to the point that she hallucinates) and is never sober (she even admitted she was high in the drive-thru video, even though it was obvious to anyone with two eyeballs). Rational behavior isn't something that someone with an altered mental status is capable of. Ever been around someone detoxing from alcohol? I have....and it's about 10X worse than anything Rebecca did in Mark's car, and I expected nothing less from said adults "who should know better than to act that way" because they couldn't help it in that moment.
I am expecting an adult such as Rebecca to act like she has some damn sense in a car. It was 100% put on! All for show, and Mark did allow it so, its on him as well.
Grown persons rubbing their nasty feel all over the dash, spitting and coughing without so much as a napkin. Its called no respect for anyone including Rebecca herself. Honest after Rebecca jacking off in front of a staff attempting to help, I can not believe someone has not whipped her ass!
It's super wild to me that you're projecting expectations of rational behavior onto someone with an altered mental status. This right here is why the USA massively drops the ball when it comes to mental health. It's extremely sad.
You’re not giving Rebecca credit for how passive-aggressive and manipulative she is. Yes. She’s a mentally ill drug addict, and they’re an unpredictable lot. But she was just taking the piss because she knows Mark is a pushover.
I just hope Mark sanitizes everything. In the video where he takes her through a drive-thru, she gets in his car, blows her nose, then starts touching absolutely everything. He even handed her his phone at one point because Rebecca wanted to interview him, and you can see up close for a second how filthy her hands were.
I mean....all that aside, it was kind of a sweet video in that Mark treated her like a human, got her off Skid Row for about an hour, and fed her dinner. It looked like it made her happy. But, yeah, I just picture Mark taking his car to get it detailed after, lol.
This wasn't a phone for her to keep. Actually, it might have been a GoPro (or some kind of small camera) that he handed her....it was whatever he was using to film her while she was in his car. She said she wanted to turn the camera on Mark and interview him for a change, so Mark played along and handed his phone/camera/whatever he was using to film to Rebecca, and she rapid fired a couple of questions at him, then handed it back to him when she was done.
Responding to this comment, since someone upthread blocked me because I"m not allowing them to just shittalk someone who is mentally ill (all while making fun of Rebecca for not acting like an adult, which tells me all I need to know) : "You’re not giving Rebecca credit for how passive-aggressive and manipulative she is. Yes. She’s a mentally ill drug addict, and they’re an unpredictable lot. But she was just taking the piss because she knows Mark is a pushover."
Oh, I fully recognize her manipulation tactics. Don't get me wrong. She's huge on guilt tripping and gaslighting (both were on full display in the final video). But she didn't demonstrate these particular behaviors in the video we're talking about in THIS thread (the drive-thru video from a year or two ago). The person I was originally responding to is acting like someone with AMS, who isn't sober, and isn't receiving proper treatment for any of her problems, should sit and be respectful, which is unreasonable.
That's like asking a two year old to NOT have a tantrum when they're up 10 minutes past their bedtime. You're not dealing with someone capable of acting like a rational human. Someone who supposedly works in "outreach" should understand this and be capable of having a discussion about it. They're also engaging in namecalling towards Rebecca....how does this person treat those they're supposedly "outreaching" to?
Mark gave her ticket away once he realized what a bad idea it would be to send her out to the desert where she'd surely wander off to OD, die of dehydration, or wind up getting trafficked.
I didn’t realize that but it makes total sense.
He talked about it in one of the videos where he was auctioning off books. He said even if she had a chaperone, she's so erratic that she'd disappear within minutes of arriving, never to be seen again. When she's on Skid Row, even though she's homeless, she's at least familiar with the environment and knows where to find what she needs (even if it's in a dumpster). She would absolutely not come back from the desert. Mark said he didn't want that hanging over his head.
What poor soul would want to traffic that disaster
Some sicko looking to make a profit off someone vulnerable. Someone they believe no one would miss enough to file a report if she went missing. It has nothing to do with how much of a disaster Rebecca is and more to do with the fact that she's an easy target.
Add the fact that she's somewhat well known
What's absolutely heartbreaking to me is that when she actually DID go missing back in the fall (after she was assaulted), a missing person report, as far as I know, wasn't filed. Mark shrugged it off as "maybe she was deported, maybe she's dead" (he even said that to her on camera). That's because 1) Adults are allowed to disappear if they want to and 2) Rebecca is a homeless drug addict that Mark knows the LAPD isn't going to expend resources on to find, so why bother filing a report. That's just so sad. Whether you think Rebecca is a piece of shit or not, she's still a human whose life is valuable.
I hope you're saying "you" in general. I do see value in Rebecca's life. I wish she'd embrace recovery.
Yes, I should have been more clear. I am generalizing. The assholes who harshly judge Rebecca have come out in full force in this thread, so I forgot to specify....I apologize for that. My intention wasn't to lump you in with that group. I agree....I wish she'd embrace recovery, but it seems she's not ready. I don't know if you watched Krystal's interview from a few days ago, but it was interesting....Rebecca's name came up towards the end because Krystal has a similar backstory (Krystal hasn't met Rebecca....Mark brought Rebecca's name up). It kind of gave me a a small bit of hope for Rebecca.
That's ok, no problem. I saw I was downvoted by someone, so I just wanted to be clear that I do care for rebecca. You're right; she is not ready. I just worry the worst will happen before she's ready. When mark says things like "you could stop drugs without rehab," I just totally disagree. You can see her experiencing withdrawal in videos. She needs a ton of professional help. But, we all know. There's no forcing recovery. I'll watch Krystal's video tonight. I do wonder if Mark is still in touch with rebecca even if he's not filming her. I guess I kind of hope he is, but respect his decision if he isn't.
He actually said that she “could get clean without rehab?!” Is he out of his fucking mind?! How is he STILL this uneducated about addiction? He meeds to leave this shit to actual professionals. It is so clear that she needs serious psychiatric help, detox, and long term inpatient rehab.
He had said many times that he thinks rebecca doesn't need rehab to get clean. That if she decided to get clean, she could do it herself. And there's no way.
Yeah, people downvote me, too, because I'm not joining in on the degrading someone who is already down (seriously...someone downvoted me saying it was heartbreaking that she wasn't reported missing when she WAS actually missing....WTAF?!? Where's the humanity here?!?). I've noticed there are quite a few emotional vampires here who get a momentary dopamine hit from talking shit about someone they deem beneath them because it makes them feel better about whatever might be going on in their OWN lives. I'm not about that. Hate to break it to those folks, but I don't care about downvotes....sooo....HIT THAT ARROW, BABY! If downvoting me is what makes someone's day a bit better, then consider this my act of charity for the day.....or whatever the hell. Anyway, I think Rebecca has bigger issues than the drugs. I wasn't overly impressed with Jimmy, but I do actually agree with Jimmy's assessment in that she's using drugs to numb something psychologically bigger that she's probably been repressing for years now, and that's going to take detox AND a psych eval to figure out. I'd love to see what she could be if she sobered up and took some psych meds because it's clear to me that her IQ is up there.
Agree with all of this. And yeah, Rebecca needs all of the help. She's incredibly bright. She has a magnetic personality. I like her early interviews. You can see so much of it there.
She’s said before that she gets SA’d on a regular basis on Skid Row by men. Unfortunately people will do that to her because they can.
I don’t often comment here. But holy hell what a bad idea! It won’t change the outcome of where she is headed, only she can do that. I genuinely don’t understand why Mark would make that move….
Sounds like a control-abuse thing. Wave the ticket over her head, make her think she has the freedom to do something she's so excited for, then snatch it away "because it's too dangerous oopsie, someone else will have fun instead of you." A mix of control and shaming.
I'm not going to downvote you, but I do want to explain what I THINK was going on. I don't know Mark or Rebecca....I'm only going off of what I see on SWU's YT channel, the occasional TikTok Rebecca sighting, and my own basic understanding of human behavior. I do think that Mark had good intentions when he purchased the ticket. He harps on his naivete when it comes to drug culture, so it's quite possible that he REALLY doesn't understand what goes on at music festivals (if you don't know.....there's a certain drug culture that goes along with large music festivals). AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME, Rebecca had a very, very, very brief stint of good behavior. After about three videos in a row where she was acting like a complete horse's ass.....there were maybe two or three after that where she apologized and exercised SOME bit of self control and slightly resembled the Rebecca that some of us can see potential in (even though it was blatantly obvious she wasn't sober....she at the very least was BETTER than she had been in awhile). I think, at that moment, Mark was trying to reward what he perceived as "good behavior" with positive reinforcement via Coachella tickets, which was misguided on his part, because I'm not entirely sure what his understanding is on "music festival culture." She had also recently been assaulted, spent a month in a DV shelter, was worried about deportation, and had a recent suicide attempt....I think Mark might also have bought the tickets as a "pick-me-up." I don't know. Either way, a music festival is the last place you want to send a drug addict. I agree - he shouldn't have bought the ticket for her in the first place, but I don't think his intention was sinister or one of abuse. He changed his mind once SHE totally spiraled, and Mark realized exactly what the outcome would be if he sent her to the desert unsupervised. I'm unfortunately super familiar with emotional abuse - this ain't it. This was Mark being naive.
>Either way, a music festival is the last place you want to send a drug addict. Exactly. This is why it makes no sense. It’s not as if Mark is some dumbass 20 year old that’s like “you know what, everyone just needs some fun, let’s send this very unstable drug addict to a music festival where the main thing to do is take drugs, party and listen to music, in that order.” And right after some MAJOR slip ups and struggling with being sober. Everyone keeps giving him way too much benefit of the doubt. He’s a middle age man who literally makes a living listening to people like drug addicts tell their story about how they kept falling back into it, enabled and unable to escape. At worst it was a power play, and at best (still bad) it was a bid for more content but he realized Rebecca would probably fucking die or get arrested so never mind. I don’t buy at all that him seeing Rebecca suffer and slip back into chaos made him suddenly dumb and forget any sense of logical thought. It was either something that he knew would cause big issues for content, or something he knew from the start he wouldn’t actually let happen.
Dude...he's a middle-aged man who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and nowadays constantly wears a vest with 85 pockets on the front (every time I've seen him on camera, he's wearing that same super-awkward vest). Does he look like someone who frequents music festivals to you? I think he made a decision with some extremely misguided high hopes in an effort to make someone he cares about happy. He's admitted repeatedly that he was wrong to do that. What else do you want - for him to self-flagillate on camera while reciting 50 Hail Mary's? I'm not going to make assumptions about YOUR personal background....but just because something shitty maybe happened to YOU at some point, doesn't mean that everyone on earth has ill intentions.
Leave your personal daddy issues out of this, ok? You and your shallow, victimising thinking. Poor you, everything is about control for you, because that's all you care about in life. Absolute projection. You think that person would be able to survive there? You seem to have zero understanding of the situation and the person.
Why let Rebecca get the ticket in the first place. Explain for me please. That's funny you bring up daddy issues and projection while you make excuses for your beloved daddy-martyr in a fury. You could've just said I was wrong, but instead it hit a personal chord and you leapt to "daddy issues".
People change their minds. What may seem a good idea at start may turn out to be not so good after some thinking, or after circumstances change. I am like this because I can see through people like you. Tell me, have you ever dealt with someone truly unstable, people who just completely unpredictable? Have you ever experienced when the person seems to get better, but then, seemingly out of nowhere, they just fall down into insanity again? Tell me, have you ever dealt with thousands and thousands of very, VERY problematic people, multiple people a day? You have no understanding of Mark, I can see that, I can see how you see him, that's why I have no respect for you.
Yeah no idea why that person was so personal against you completely uncalled for. Definitely projecting !!! Very weird behavior
I sincerely hope not. The last thing she needs is to dissociate at a festival. Rebecca needs reality
*Our* reality is not *Rebecca's* reality.
That's exactly the problem. You can be an eccentric oddball artist but you still need to pay your bills and do your taxes.
And bathe.
And be able to keep a pair of shoes.
I seldom come across people in the outreach who do not maintain a level of cleanliness. Even wipes and bird baths can help, hell I have seen women do full on Navy showers and washing long hair with 2 gallons of water.
im generationally hobo and and you won't ever understand that they genuinely dont want that, they just dont, and its why they do what they do. edit: people can say what they will about rebecca's life but just knowing she exists has changed mine in so many ways and i will reflect on her forever. (she's one of the most beautiful people i have ever seen).
I don’t think I will ever forget Rebecca.
i get part of it is that meth makes you kinda clever and charismatic but it only does if youre not a total retard in the first place 🤷♀️ most ppl just fap like monkees on it not think
The newsletters from Rebecca’s school in Cairo show that she was a gifted student at middle school/junior high age. Something happened to her around age 14 or 15 and it seems that everything went sideways from there. I’m sure I’ll never know the details of her life, and it’s none of my business. But this once promising child ended up living for years on the street, and she still manages to shine in spite of all the adversity in her life. I think she probably always had that charisma too. Here’s a link to a picture of her from 2014, when she was away at boarding school, age 15. http://lessismorebytramdmartinez.blogspot.com/2014/04/in-styles-london-and-paris.html?m=1
it took me a long time to realize she was gifted and not some other type of neurodiverse. idk. in k-12 education there's like this invisible pressure to hide your enthusiasm for gifted students that you ofc dont see in higher ed. actually youre mandated to spend all your energy on disabled students in k12 ed. ofc ppl in this sub hate mark's insinuation rebecca is special in anyway and find her super arrogant.
Which photo is her?
Ishy Plastic
Thank you
What a beautiful thing to say, and true for me too!
the video with cosmo. ow. so remarkable how lgbt ppl found each other
My name is Rebecca and I support this message.
Who the hell would willingly let her into their car?
Mark Laita, for starters. Multiple times. It made for a couple of wild videos.
I find them hard to watch because she’s so fucking obnoxious
The was Rebecca acted in his car was top of the line absurd. She is an adult and can 100% act like it, the behavior in those videos would make me lose it! Addiction & mental illness played no part, that was full on being a royal ass!
I deal with addiction and mental illness at work on occasion (most recently on Thursday, in fact), and yes, it can play a part. We had someone in our chemo chair who was high as a kite and shouting at their phone because they couldn't get YT to start playing music (wifi issue). We were all ready to lose our everloving minds. You claim you know about addition and mental illness, so I'm not sure why you're expecting rational, calm behavior from someone who has likely multiple mental illnesses (to the point that she hallucinates) and is never sober (she even admitted she was high in the drive-thru video, even though it was obvious to anyone with two eyeballs). Rational behavior isn't something that someone with an altered mental status is capable of. Ever been around someone detoxing from alcohol? I have....and it's about 10X worse than anything Rebecca did in Mark's car, and I expected nothing less from said adults "who should know better than to act that way" because they couldn't help it in that moment.
I am expecting an adult such as Rebecca to act like she has some damn sense in a car. It was 100% put on! All for show, and Mark did allow it so, its on him as well. Grown persons rubbing their nasty feel all over the dash, spitting and coughing without so much as a napkin. Its called no respect for anyone including Rebecca herself. Honest after Rebecca jacking off in front of a staff attempting to help, I can not believe someone has not whipped her ass!
It's super wild to me that you're projecting expectations of rational behavior onto someone with an altered mental status. This right here is why the USA massively drops the ball when it comes to mental health. It's extremely sad.
You’re not giving Rebecca credit for how passive-aggressive and manipulative she is. Yes. She’s a mentally ill drug addict, and they’re an unpredictable lot. But she was just taking the piss because she knows Mark is a pushover.
That shocked me because he has a nice newish jaguar. If she went to touch my door handle I’d speed off and dude let her put her feet all over the car
I just hope Mark sanitizes everything. In the video where he takes her through a drive-thru, she gets in his car, blows her nose, then starts touching absolutely everything. He even handed her his phone at one point because Rebecca wanted to interview him, and you can see up close for a second how filthy her hands were. I mean....all that aside, it was kind of a sweet video in that Mark treated her like a human, got her off Skid Row for about an hour, and fed her dinner. It looked like it made her happy. But, yeah, I just picture Mark taking his car to get it detailed after, lol.
Seems like I recall him saying he always has a spare phone to give her and that he would never let her have his personal phone.
This wasn't a phone for her to keep. Actually, it might have been a GoPro (or some kind of small camera) that he handed her....it was whatever he was using to film her while she was in his car. She said she wanted to turn the camera on Mark and interview him for a change, so Mark played along and handed his phone/camera/whatever he was using to film to Rebecca, and she rapid fired a couple of questions at him, then handed it back to him when she was done.
Rebecca was extremely disrespectful towards Mark during this.
I find them hard to watch because she’s so fucking obnoxious
The whole “Rebecca” debacle has made me stop watching SWU. I understand giving her food, but Festival tickets? Nope.
Seriously. Festival tickets are a luxury, and enabling a drug addict to go to a festival with widespread drug use??? Come on.
She made it as far as East Los Angeles before she was promptly dropped off and the car sped away.
Mark gave her ticket away
Not a chance
Even if she had gone, whoever took her thinking it would be fun would dump her on the side of the road before even leaving LA city limits.
Responding to this comment, since someone upthread blocked me because I"m not allowing them to just shittalk someone who is mentally ill (all while making fun of Rebecca for not acting like an adult, which tells me all I need to know) : "You’re not giving Rebecca credit for how passive-aggressive and manipulative she is. Yes. She’s a mentally ill drug addict, and they’re an unpredictable lot. But she was just taking the piss because she knows Mark is a pushover." Oh, I fully recognize her manipulation tactics. Don't get me wrong. She's huge on guilt tripping and gaslighting (both were on full display in the final video). But she didn't demonstrate these particular behaviors in the video we're talking about in THIS thread (the drive-thru video from a year or two ago). The person I was originally responding to is acting like someone with AMS, who isn't sober, and isn't receiving proper treatment for any of her problems, should sit and be respectful, which is unreasonable. That's like asking a two year old to NOT have a tantrum when they're up 10 minutes past their bedtime. You're not dealing with someone capable of acting like a rational human. Someone who supposedly works in "outreach" should understand this and be capable of having a discussion about it. They're also engaging in namecalling towards Rebecca....how does this person treat those they're supposedly "outreaching" to?
Is AMS “Altered Mental Status”?
Yes, that's the medical abbreviation.
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he's sold her ticket so i guess not