He Spent a Year Paying a Doctor to Write Down a Fragile, Unstable Version of Me That Didn’t Exist — So When He Finally Set Me Aside, the Whole World Would Believe I’d Simply Come Apart on My Own

I only had to be it, out loud, where everyone could hear.

Old clips resurfaced of me crying over the strains of the past year while he “comforted” me for the cameras.

Reporters found Sabrina’s house and confirmed that four-year-old Leo was his son, kept on corporate money.

Brands dropped him.

His label suspended his releases and canceled his tour.

And the prosecutor subpoenaed Sabrina Croft to testify under oath.

Chapter 15 — Sabrina

I saw her for the first time at a pretrial hearing, months later, and she was not the woman I had built in my mind.