Now, eight months on from the incident, Lively has spoken out to reveal how her actions were the result of being 'pretty effectively radicalized' by QAnon which ultimately left her feeling 'robbed of my life.' In a second video, Lively filmed police arriving at her home after her husband alerted the authorities as she told the officers she was a spokesperson for the White House and QAnon and had been on the phone to Donald Trump 'all the time.' The footage, which she streamed live on her Instagram, quickly went viral and earned her the nickname 'Rolex Karen.' ![]() Melissa Rein Lively, a 35-year-old publicist, hit headlines back on July 4 after she tore the face coverings off a display and threw them to the ground while shouting expletives and saying she was wearing a '$40,000 Rolex' in the store in Scottsdale, Arizona. Published: 14:29 BST, 12 March 2021 | Updated: 15:16 BST, 12 March 2021Ī woman who filmed herself wrecking a display of face masks in Target has revealed how she was 'groomed' by QAnon, chose the conspiracy theory over her family and is still in therapy following the incident almost a year later. She likened her indoctrination by QAnon to 'hitting rock bottom for alcohol or drugs' as she is still in therapy and trying to rebuild her life.She said she lost trust in everyone including her husband because of 'digital brainwashing' by the conspiracy theory. ![]() Lively said she went from being 'the first person in the grocery store with a mask and gloves on' in February to going into 'denial about the pandemic' by May.Lively has now spoken out to reveal how her actions were the result of being 'pretty effectively radicalized' by QAnon conspiracy theories.A second video at her home shows Lively telling cops she was a spokesperson for the White House and QAnon and had been on the phone to Trump.The footage, which she streamed live on her Instagram, quickly went viral.Melissa Rein Lively, a 35-year-old publicist, hit headlines back on July 4 after she tore the face coverings off a display in the store in Scottsdale, Arizona.There was said to be a theory that Julian Assange was somehow involved too but that soon fell apart after Trump failed to pardon him.Arizona PR executive, 35, who filmed her own public meltdown wrecking a display of masks in Target claims she was 'digitally brainwashed' by QAnon and compares her 'radicalization' to alcoholism ![]() Some even appeared to believe that Trump was hinting at the existence of Q as he had 17 US flags behind him during his farewell speech. They believed Trump would announce martial law through the Emergency Alert System before carrying out mass arrests.” Some even thought the mysterious Q figure him/herself was going to be unveiled to the world, as if it was all just a plot twist in some low-budget movie.īen Collins of NBC writes, “Some QAnon followers spent weeks preparing for a nationwide blackout starting at noon on Inauguration Day, warning friends and family in text chains and Facebook messages to buy CB radios and stock up on food. Many appeared to think that federal authorities were going to suddenly arrest Biden and other top Democrats or that Trump was finally going to expose the conspiracy. In the days running up to Biden’s inauguration, followers of QAnon were reportedly very active on messaging apps such as Telegram and The Great Awakening, a forum named after the event that they thought was going to happen on Wednesday. Many of those who stormed the Capitol building two weeks ago were wearing pieces of Q merchandise. On the fringes though it was also a massive day for conspiracy theorists who have brought into the QAnon craze, a belief that there is a mysterious figure in the US government that is attempting to expose a deep state plot (led by an international cabal of Satanic paedophiles) to undermine Trump and his presidency. ![]() For Democrats, it was the end of a long hard-fought campaign to oust Donald Trump from office, and for Trump it was time to reflect on the last four years and lick his wounds. 20 January 2021 was a big day for many people in the United States.
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