Acid Attack Hoax – Bethany Storro Says Story Was Fake

Remember Bethany Storro? She was the woman from Portland who became popular after she claimed that an unknown black woman threw acid in her face. Yesterday she admitted that the story was a hoax, that she made everything up.

Acid Attack Hoax

What she can’t explain is why she – an attractive woman with a new job – would cause herself horrific pain by searing her face, irreparably, with a substance as caustic as hydrochloric or sulfuric acid.

There could be several answers, says Dr. Samuelle Klein-Von Reiche, a psychologist in private practice in Manhattan.

“One theory is that it could be for the same reasons that some people cut themselves – to take charge of negative emotions, to feeling something more than numbness, to grant release from psychic pain,” says Klein-Von Reiche.

But why did she tell police her assailant was black?

Klein-Von Reiche says that the fact that she said it was a black woman is “fascinating.” “Of course it could imply racial issues,” she says, “But, she says, it might also have been her unconscious way of saying that she did it herself – black could represent the dark side of herself over which she has little control.”

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