Immediately after emptying the accounts, Selina had personally contacted David’s most important corporate clients and informed them, confidentially and with great concern, that David was in the grip of a mental health crisis and could no longer be trusted to manage their projects.

Within two months, the agency had lost its core retainers.

He could not meet payroll.

And the business — the thing I had believed in, the thing he had built — collapsed.

Without income, without a home, buried under sworn affidavits, every subsequent court date only deepened the story she had authored: that David was a broken and dangerous man.

The evidence of his ruin had become the proof of his instability.