Cry, Lie, Repeat: Journal Gate #3 – Ayries’s ‘Fresh Pain’ Smells Like Reheated Evidence

This is part three of Journal Gate:

Part #1 Brooklyn Prosecutors Lean on Mysterious ‘Bombshell’ Diary; Defense Calls It ‘Fabricated Evidence’

Part #2 Handwritten Version Mirrors Netflix-Tuned Final Draft in Feds Prosecution of OneTaste

Diary Drama: The Mysterious Case of the Edited Entries

The pages seem to detail the suffering she experienced in real time.

We’re talking about Ayries Blanck—the victim—in 2015.

The US Attorney for the Eastern District of NY is prosecuting two women based on Ayries’s journal entries from January 15 to March 14, 2015, when the pain was fresh and real.

Raw.

Twenty-eight neat, well-written entries on 28 dates, starting on January 15, just 15 days after she left the place where she cried every day.

Crying Shame: Ayries’s Journal and the Case of the Missing Truth

Well, let her tell it:

“And I cried. I cried almost every day I was in New York city. … I am not surprised I cried every day and that my body began to shut down.”

She cried. And cried and cried.

Here is what she (or somebody) wrote:

Entry: January 15, 2015

She says she wrote it on January 15, the first day of her crying journal:

January 15, 2015:

“I officially left on January 1 2015. It feels surreal and impossible that after almost three years of insanity, it’s now over.

“A gray numbness that has swallowed me. My hands still shake as I type and I am only able to eat a small amounts of soup without becoming sick. Paranoia lurks around me. Fearing at any moment somebody will pop out from behind me to drag me back.”

Oh dear.

Pain for Profit: Ayries’s Sister Cashes in on Netflix Deal

Precious words of pain first typed on a Google Word Doc on May 4, 2022. Copied from the handwritten, she says.

The bad girls – the defendants (Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz) or rather their company, the one they ran then, OneTaste Inc. – forensically analyzed the Google Doc Word file from which Ayries’s sister Autymn transcribed the crying and the pain in 2022.

OneTaste got permission from a judge to analyze the metadata.

Autymn Blanck acknowledged she had started a Google Word document on May 4, 2022, but testified it was only to transcribe the painful crying handwritten journal of her sister seven years back, dated  January 15 to March 14, 2015.

All Autymn did was transcribe what was written in a notebook by her sister and type it on a Google Doc. On May 4.

She got paid $25k for the journal and some pics of her sister, Ayries, by Lena Dunham’s company to make a Netflix documentary about OneTaste.

Wig-wearing Autymn appeared in the film, read her sister’s journal, and picked up $25k.

Cream of Wheat or Soup? Netflix’s $25k Recipe for Evidence

So it began: Autymn, on May 4, 2022, transcribed Ayries’s handwritten journal on a Google Doc. Then Autymn made edits to the original — adding details, changing dates, rewording — and the final edit was different than the first typed edition.

But why does the transcribed May 4, 2022 typed version, not match the handwritten journal?

“January 15
…My hands still shake as I type and I am only able to eat a small amount of cream of wheat with butter, everything else I vomit up. The paranoia lurks around me. …”

Why does it say, “My hands still shake as I type”? Autymn is transcribing a handwritten journal from a notebook. Why does it say, “My hands still shake as I type”?

Ayries wasn’t typing in 2015. She hand wrote her journal.

A Minor Change with Major Implications

In the word-for-word transcription of the handwritten, Autymn made another minor change.

May 4 typed version
“I am only able to eat a small amount of cream of wheat with butter, everything else I vomit up.”

May 6 typed version 

“I am only able to eat a small amounts of soup without becoming sick.”

Cream of Wheat is a brand name. Maybe you can’t use a brand name about a girl who vomits everything but it (with butter), so Autymn changes it to soup for Netflix. She has to deviate from the handwritten to read it on Netflix.

And Autymn changes vomiting to “becoming sick.”

But why does the handwritten journal say “soup”? Not Cream of Wheat. And why doesn’t it say “becoming sick” not vomit?

It’s puzzling how the handwritten journal is identical to Autymn’s edited version, rather than the word-for-word transcription of May 4, 2022.

This would suggest Ayries did not write the handwritten journal in 2015; rather, someone hand wrote it after May 2022.

Federal Prosecutors Bet Big on Questionable Diary

The Department of Justice plans to use the handwritten journal as evidence. This journal reflects Ayries Blanck’s state of mind during a time of pain. The prosecutors are relying on Ayries’s “excited utterances” recorded fresh during that painful period.

Without the pain being freshly recorded in a 2015 journal, it holds little value as evidence.

Future Shock: Victim Quotes Book Published Four Years Later

The clincher for me is the book not written.

From her journal February 22, 2015.

“I was reading the book Post Traumatic Growth Guide … The more pain I was in the more “growth” I was going to experience… It makes OneTaste the catalyst for my growth. It makes the rapist, abusive parents, and broken social system the catalyst for me to be a better version of myself. That I need pain and trauma to grow. “

Ayries absorbed what she read. It’s helping her grow.

The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook in chapter 4 mirrors what Ayries said.

The book:

“In particular, post-traumatic growth is fostered by reflecting upon our experiences in a way that provides a sense of meaning or purpose. From this lens, traumatic events can be catalysts for growth.”

Catalyst is the key word. OneTaste was the catalyst for Ayries’s growth.

So, what is the issue?

Time-Travel Testimony? How Ayries Read a Book from 2019 in 2015

Ayries wrote her journal in 2015 while reading the Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, “It makes OneTaste the catalyst for my growth.”

However, the book was first published on December 3, 2019. This was four years, nine months, and eleven days after Ayries’s journal date.

If I know Ayries, she will claim she meant another book, one published before 2015, not one from the future. But how does Ayries explain she quoted from the 2019 book in her 2015 journal? That was the catalyst for me knowing Ayries is lying.

That journal was written (with numerous edits) for Netflix in 2022. After that, someone transcribed it on a notebook to create the handwritten version the government intends to use as evidence.

So, what difference does it make?

The Handwritten Journal with a Time Machine

The government claims this is Ayries’s fresh pain, raw and emotional journal; how she cried, not lied.

But why does the handwritten match the final typed version? How could she read a book from the future? Since when is Cream of Wheat better than soup?

Either Ayries is lying, or she learned to travel in time.

The government knows this. They are trying to pass this fake off as authentic.

And it makes me sick. No, change that. It makes me want to vomit.

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

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