A Deer Media Original Podcast. Her name is Coco, which I think is just the cutest name.

First of all, is it a nickname? No, it's not. For a while it seemed like Coco Birthman was everywhere.

I'm here with an incredible woman, an

incredible survivor and advocate Coco Birthman and with every interview

Coco's influence grew. There was this incredible story about this girl from Germany who had been trafficked in a most horrible way.

But she had escaped and now she was speaking out in hopes of saving other children from having to go through what she went through.

Coco presented a unique opportunity to be kind of a face for victim.

She looked good, she spoke well. She had a following and people

loved her. Did you feel that she could potentially do a lot of good? For a brief second.

Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, there's a lot in Coco Birthman's story that just seems, well, it seems too terrible to be true.

Witness to murder, a forced abortion, a baby taken from her at 13,

just horrific, horrific things.

You're taught to just

absurd.

she's making a mockery out of some real things.

She said, well, my parents were very wealthy.

We had a private helicopter. It was like, wow, I've never heard anything that fantastic.

Who makes things up like this? But in early 2022, Coco took it a step too far.

She announced to her followers on Instagram that she had

been diagnosed with stage four mantle cell lymphoma. What's another thing you're

going to get sympathy for? Now you have this terrible cancer.

Pretty quickly, people started questioning everything that Coco Birthman had ever said.

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