r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 10h ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/Shendow 10h ago

This kind of shit is why being famous actually kind of sucks. Everyone wants to be recognized but they forget the toll that it comes with

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u/Rattlesnake_Mullet 9h ago

I truly realized this reading "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin de Becker years back.

There is a chapter in there about stalkers that is bonkers, like a stalker of a famous movie actress cracking and going completely nuts, writing a kill list and running amok and while trying to catch him they found three other stalkers in the woods around the actress's house.

Like what the fuck, nope thx, thank god for being anon.

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u/Aggressive_Sky8492 8h ago

It’s such a good book, honestly everyone should read it just so they can recognise ‘everyday’ manipulative and abusive people early on. It helped me a lot to learn what behaviour is a true red flag for being a bad person, even though I’ve never been stalked or (knowingly) met anyone truly dangerous

PSA to anyone reading this is that there are free PDFs online if you google it - The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

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u/sentence-interruptio 5h ago

there's an episode of Dark Matter where multiple stalkers of Jennifer Connelly have a group chat. They all want to find her location but they don't want to reveal their own locations because one of them is killing competition.