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Wait, Tegan and Sara Had a Fanatical Catfishing Stalker?
They’re opening up about the experience in interviews — and an upcoming Erin Lee Carr documentary.
“It was heavy to carry at the time,” Tegan told Rolling Stone in a recent interview, noting that catfishing as a concept wasn’t as understood then. But back then, I just felt ashamed and just thought, ‘Please let it end.’” She recalled feeling “anxious” about her safety on the night she found out about the impersonator, even pushing her dresser in front of the door since her partner was away and she was alone in that apartment for the first time. A partial screenshot hints at “pretty personal, explicit things,” and interviewees — in apparent reference to their relationships with Fake Tegan — describe “it” feeling “more sexual” and “very real.” We also learn that the singers began to question the people around them, wondering if they were being hacked by someone they knew.
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