The only thing stronger than my desire to see these ridiculous accusations disappear is my desire to defend myself and tell whoever is interested the real truth.

Apparently there is a man in Peru who is insanely jealous that I was interviewed with @dollarvigilante. This man is claiming that I blew off an appointment to be interviewed by him for a TV audience consisting of millions of viewers.

This man is @fyrstikken and he is a liar.

I never made an appointment with him. I’ve confronted him and asked him to provide proof that this appointment even existed.

He has yet to provide the proof because it does not exist.

The first time I’ve ever communicated with this man was on steemit.chat when I provided a link for one of my posts featuring a future trip to Peru on the post-promotion chat room. He contacted me and said he wanted to meet me. That was it. He said it “would be great to have two steemit users meet in person”. Never once did he EVER inform me that he had planned to hire a camera crew to accompany this meeting. He never even mentioned interviewing me, let alone planning on airing this “interview” on a television station in Peru.

Please, let’s look at the logic of this. To my knowledge at this point there was a man in Peru who wanted to meet me. He knew I would be traveling alone. I’d never spoken to him or knew anything about him until this first time he’d reached out to me. I never gave him the specific dates that I would be in Lima. How could there be an “appointment” if he never knew when for sure I would be in town? He also claims to have spoiled his reputation for having to reserve 4 tables at a swanky restaurant… once again, I never told him for sure when I would be in Lima, let alone give him a specific time of day. For him to be able to make a reservation is just preposterous.

Instead I made the decision to spend my time in Lima meeting with a young woman working with the children in Huaycan Peru because I wanted to shed a light on the hard work she and the volunteers do there. If you'd like to learn more about her Light and Leadership Initiative check it out here! All proceeds are donated to their efforts of furthering the education of the children, teens and women of Huaycan.

I never reached out to him because there was never a set plan and since I never heard from him again in the two weeks since he first contacted me I figured that we wouldn’t be meeting after all.

He never contacted me again after this first conversation on the steemit.chat post-promotion page until one day last week he decided to make me his next steemit user to target. Rumor has it he has also been a problem for other well known steemit users like @stellabelle and @tuck-fheman. He was so abusive towards @stellabelle that it’s made her seriously consider taking her creative posts to Synereo. I myself am a huge fan of hers and would be sad to see her switch to Synereo due to her experience with this loose cannon.

It wasn’t until after my interview with @dollarvigilante was released that he began his mission to ruin my reputation and even went as far as to tell people that I’m a fake blogger and my blog is a scam. I assure it is not. All of the photos and my writing are completely genuine and original works written specifically for the users of steemit. Don’t believe me? Check them yourself.

I met with @dollarvigilante because I have followed him on YouTube for a long time now and I credit him for educating me about many things regarding the government and how to invest wisely. I was so excited to have been asked by him for an interview- an interview he explicitly explained would be aired on his Anarchast channel on YouTube. I knew who this man was before he approached me and I was able to have a friend of mine accompany me to this interview- which would not have been the case in Peru. I would have been meeting with a complete stranger all by myself in a foreign country- not exactly the smartest way for a woman to travel. I want to thank @dollarvigilante for being an incredible help to me and proving to be a real friend.

I’m in Cape Town right now where wifi is hard to come by so I was unaware of this libelous post until today. I was able to read the comments and saw how he defended me and I’m very thankful for that.

(I've been a bit busy climbing mountains lately)

Don’t mistake my silence as a sign of guilt

I really was hoping that the recent experience in that chat room would be the end of this mess, I figured he’d get it all off his chest and move on. I guess I was wrong, he decided to spread the lies further and see if he could get paid for it. Which apparently ruining others reputations is a phenomenal way to make money on this site. Too bad I have a conscious and wouldn’t be able to actively ruin people’s reputations, get paid for it AND be able to sleep at night.

I’m guessing @fyrstikken was jealous that he didn’t get to use my popularity on this site to further promote his own ambitions. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s awesome that he has been promoting steemit so well in Peru and I would’ve loved to have helped him do so by meeting with him and doing an interview. But again I was never informed by him of any such plans for a TV interview! Unfortunately for me, since he couldn’t use my popularity for the good of steemit, he’s now using it to make money off of a completely false yet sensationalized story that he has fabricated. He has published libelous statements and has made more than $1000 off of it to boot.

The language he used to completely berate me on the public chat room was nothing short of disgusting behavior. I hope he’s embarrassed by the language he chose to express himself, especially if he’s a “grown man” but I think we all know he’s proven to be a boy in a man’s body. The words he chose repeatedly are incredibly degrading and filled with hate.

I am incredibly thankful that I did not meet with him.

What if I had and he surprised me with TV cameras and the pressure of it being aired on TV without giving me a chance to prepare myself for an interview and I answered a question in a bad way? How would he have reacted to the fact that I’m not the best on camera? Would he have cussed me out in public? Would he have followed me to my hostel?

The behavior he showed in the chat room proves that he has zero control over his anger and also proved that I was right not to have met with him.

I gotta give him points for creativity though, even if he didn’t meet with me he’d use my name to get paid either way.