Scott Johnson

He had blown through 50 or $60,000.

It was the entirety of his life savings, money that he had earmarked for medical care for his child.

So he'd lost all his money, which was bad enough.

But what really struck me in my conversation with this guy was how...

sort of damaged he was.

I mean, this guy was really messed up by this experience.

He had spent weeks, weeks and weeks, many weeks.

I mean, I think it might've even been a few months

in this kind of relationship with Amy Pascal, this woman thinking that he was on this fantastic work project with Amy Pascal.

He'd gone all over Indonesia.

He'd taken flights and buses and cars.

I mean, he'd gone everywhere.

He'd done all these things.

And the whole time he'd been in this ongoing conversation with the woman he thought was Amy Pascal, and she turned out to be this incredibly abusive, manipulative, volatile, contemptuous woman.

And she had kind of strung him along for weeks and weeks, taken all his money, put him in these impossible situations, and

And really just engineered and orchestrated this crazy psychological mind game on him.

And so when I spoke to him, he had just emerged from this and he was wrecked.

I mean, he was just a total mess.

He'd lost all his money, as I said, but he'd also kind of lost his self-confidence and

You know, his whole sort of work life was messed up.