The Truth About Netflix's "Bad Vegan" and a Crime Week Con, with Sarma Melngailis | Ep. 1221
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and Happy New Year. It's the final day of Crime Week here on the program, though we do have fresh programming for you tomorrow as well. This is the end of Crime Week because nothing says Christmas like true crime. My guest today built one of the most successful vegan food empires in the Big Apple. But her dramatic rise and fall would become the focus of the hit Netflix, quote, documentary, or so they call it, Bad Vegan, a series she says got major parts of her story wrong. By the way, this always happens on Netflix. Sarma Melngilis has a new memoir. It is called The Girl with the Duck Tattoo. In it, she aims to set the record straight by laying out what she says is the real story behind the fame, the manipulation, and the fallout of her unbelievable saga.
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What is the story behind Netflix's 'Bad Vegan'?
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Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to be here.
Well, I'm sorry that you had an unfortunate experience with Netflix, but you are not alone. We've covered so many of these cases on Netflix where they lure you in and they really do sell a documentary. And it's nothing of the kind. It's a mockumentary. It's a docudrama. It's something that is not... committed to journalistic fact-based reporting. So I will give you that right off the top. But I'm super interested to find out what is true. To give a two-line encapsulation of your story to the audience, as I understand it. You're very well educated. You went to Wharton. You worked at Bear Stearns, Bain Capital. Then you went to the French Culinary Institute. You learned how to be a serious chef. You open up this banger of a restaurant with raw food, pure food and wine.
Everyone in New York loved it. It was going really well. Then you met this man, this man who came into your life who... was somewhat sketchy and notwithstanding your sophistication, bit by bit, he eroded your sense of self, your understanding of what was real. And before you knew it, you had lost everything. Is that a fair summation of how this thing went down?
Yeah.
Yeah, that was an incredible summation. That was better than I can do it in a concise way. But yeah, that's what happened. And what I've learned is that my story was an extreme version of something that happens to people a lot more than people realize. And I know this now from all the messages I've gotten in my DMs. since the show came out and since it became much more public, is that this type of manipulation can happen a lot more than people realize.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:39
2
What is the story behind Netflix's 'Bad Vegan'?
2:39–5:40
3
How did Sarma Melngailis become a target for a con artist?
5:40–14:43
4
What psychological tactics did the con artist use on Sarma?
14:43–22:38
5
How did Sarma's business suffer due to her relationship?
22:38–29:10
6
What were the consequences of Sarma's financial decisions?
29:10–39:01
7
What led to Sarma's arrest and the aftermath?
39:01–49:36
8
How did Sarma cope with the fallout from her experiences?
49:36–1:06:46
Speakers
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