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Carrie Jade Does Not Exist

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Carrie Jade Does Not Exist

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Carrie Jade Williams, Scandal, Scam, Tiktok, Documentary, Sue Perkins, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4933 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In 2021, Carrie Jade Williams posted a video saying she was being sued by her AirBnB guests for the disability aids in her home. She went viral on TikTok, won a prestigious literary essay competition, and branded herself as a disability activist living with Huntington's Disease. But Carrie Jade wasn't who she said she was.


In Episode 1, Sue Perkins meets Katherine Denkinson, the journalist who uncovered the astounding truth behind the real life of Carrie Jade Williams. Then they dive into an online rabbit hole to learn about the twists, turns and outrageous lies behind that video and Carrie Jade's life.


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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

0:08.3

slide by on track to your

0:15.0

there,

0:20.0

the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

0:21.0

This is how travels should feel, on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel

0:32.0

Hello there. I'm Sue Perkins and if you are listening in the UK you might

0:36.3

know me for leaving some of the most successful shows on television like the

0:40.3

Great British Bake-Off. I'm a comic, TV presenter and sometime writer.

0:46.1

What I'm not, usually, is an investigator, although I do have the outfit, but I became

0:52.3

obsessed with a story full of twists and turns and the most astounding lies.

0:59.8

There's lots of things I can't change, like I can't make things more accessible, I can't find a cure for Huntington's disease, but I can go around and say thank you to all the people I want to say thank you to.

1:10.0

That's the voice of Carrie Jade Williams, a 34-year-old British disability activist living in Ireland.

1:17.0

Carrie said she was diagnosed with Huntington's, which is a rare neurodegenerative disease without a cure.

1:24.0

It's a serious illness which over time affects people's ability to think, walk and talk.

1:31.0

But Carrie was determined to stay optimistic by making Tik-Tok videos.

1:35.8

And I just think if I send that positivity out into the world,

1:39.1

just makes the world a little bit better.

1:41.2

Her Tik-to-a- with Huntington Disease was exactly

1:52.8

I would have drawn them all in.

1:54.0

In 99 days, I am having experimental brain surgery

1:57.8

for my terminal Huntington's disease.

2:00.0

And I have a list of things that I want to do, 99 things.

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