5 Jaw-Dropping Revelations From the Memoir of Caroline Calloway, the Infamous "Scammer" Influencer
The influencer-slash-scammer tells on herself in her new memoir.
Like so many influencers, Caroline Calloway seemed to live a life that many only dreamed about. In 2012 she started an Instagram account, creating intrigue over her expatriate life in Cambridge through glossy photos and ultra-long captions, eventually being dubbed the "Gatsby of Cambridge." However, her social media empire came crumbling down when her former NYU classmate Natalie Beach wrote an essay for New York Magazine, exposing a web of lies ranging from Calloway forging academic credentials to get into the posh English school to reveal that it wasn't Calloway, but Beach who wrote the majority of the captions. Calloway is releasing a memoir, revealing all the juicy details about her life. Here are the five most jaw-dropping revelations from the highly anticipated book, Scammer.
Calloway, who has called everywhere from New York City to Cambridge home, is now living a quiet life in Sarasota, Florida.
In the book, Calloway maintains that days after she was exposed in Beach's "dishonest" essay, her father took his own life. She writes that he committed suicide by overdosing on painkillers, and was discovered in her childhood home.
In the book Calloway confessed that after Beach told her that she had been sexually assaulted, she started "feeling something that was so f***ed-up I need you to brace yourself," she writes, admitting it was arousing to her. "I didn't mean to be turned on," she writes. "Natalie and I had never talked about sex together this graphically before."
Like her inspiration and friend Cat Marnell, Calloway writes about her addiction to Adderall. There are lots of passages about her drug use in the book, revealing that she would fly from Cambridge to the States just to get her hands on a prescription. She also would stay awake for days at a time, referring to it as her "zombie problem." She writes: "My finger would turn white, starting at the tip, spreading downwards, like some horrific, sped-up virus. Then the finger next to it. Then my palm."
Calloway confesses that to pay back her $100,000 advance for School Girl, she resorted to Only Fans. In under a year, she raised enough money from selling topless photos of herself to get out of debt.
