Anyone watching Bad Vegan on Netflix?

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It’s absolute madness!

I hadn't really thought about the vast sums that she was skimming off the restaurant, and was that even plausible after overheads, etc. Also, wouldnt she have an accountant? Even if it was a private business.

She got a very light sentence, considering everything. It seems she slept with her attorney (google NY Post story) which I'm sure didn't hurt

Does anybody else think that Sarma looks like January Jones from 'Mad Men'?

I notice when the interviewers call her out on a couple of things she really tries to downplay her part and acts very evasive, like she really didn't know what she was doing, like it was no big deal not to pay her employees and take off who knows where

Yes I spotted that. She was evasive and kept saying 'I don't know' to those questions - and almost a bit put out. That's when I became more sceptical of her. I didn't get a sense of responsibility or empathy for the employees.

And her interest in Alec Baldwin early on was weird. Like she wanted to date him but he got with someone else.

@Inkanta

And her interest in Alec Baldwin early on was weird. Like she wanted to date him but he got with someone else.

Apparently he fancied her but she thought she was too young for him? Or so she claims.

And then she got annoyed when he started dating the even younger Hilaria, whom he met at her restaurant. It did sound a bit odd.

Like a few of us said above, there are a lot of gaps in this story.

I gave up on this as it annoyed me.

I lost sympathy for her when she decided she forgave him everything after he took her to Tiffany and showed her diamonds.

Agree we were supposed to care about her as she's thin and pretty.

Annoying. Glad I stopped.

It is a good example of manipulative language.

I found it very difficult to have sympathy for Sharma. She was very materialistic and forgave him when she showed her diamonds, knowing that his funds pretty much came from her.
What was the phone call about at the end?! She was pretty much forgiving him - maybe I need to watch it again but I don't believe her innocent victim act. He was manipulative but there's no way she's as innocent as she claims. I don't know in what situation it would be ok to not pay your employees and disappear?

It seems she slept with her attorney (google NY Post story) which I'm sure didn't hurt hmm

Funny how that bit got left out of the documentary eh?

And apparently she said she was very disappointed to learn that her lawyer was married with children. After their affair had ended of course. Please. As if she didn't know or couldn't have found out that information had she wanted.

I suspect it's always someone else in the wrong for Sarma.

Like a few of us said above, there are a lot of gaps in this story

That's my only gripe with these Netflix documentaries. They're sometimes biased towards the one who's clearly agreed to be in the show as long as they're portrayed in a better light than some of the others, therefore missing out some relevant information.

Interestingly judging my her Instagram she’s pissed off about how the documentary portrayed her.
I thought it was quite sympathetic towards her.

I just couldn’t get my head around her believing he would make the dog immortal and her too. There was so much that didn’t add up.

I don’t buy that she didn’t realise they were on the run either.

she’s pissed off about how the documentary portrayed her.
I thought it was quite sympathetic towards her.

Yes it was quite sympathetic towards her but I picked up on a manipulative side to her. But yes there was significant coercive control from that weird guy. Don't know what she saw in him - they had seperate rooms in the end and she said she didn't like his smell.

She seemed to only get with him to begin with or talk to him because he had been tweeting Alex Baldwin and seemed to know him

Sarma showed no care about the people she defrauded. She blamed Shane /Anthony for everything. I think that she was totally aware of what was happening at the beginning and joining in with it, and thought that it would all end up benefitting her.

It was only towards the end I felt (ie Las Vegas) that Sarma seemed genuinely unable to control what was happening as she realised that she was ib so deep she couldn't claim to be the unaware victim.

Fascinating documentary.

I do find this sort of thing fascinating and can empathise with victims of the Tinder Swindler and puppet master

Its really hard to feel sorry for a person, well educated and successful business owner, who thinks a man can make her dog immortal

It's just too out there for me

I think that I must be tight - I wouldn't lend anyone £100 let alone the amounts in this programme. She was as guilty as him for being stupid enough to believe his rubbish. It didn't come across that she actually loved him.

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I think that I must be tight - I wouldn't lend anyone £100 let alone the amounts in this programme. She was as guilty as him for being stupid enough to believe his rubbish. It didn't come across that she actually loved him.

Sarma seemed stone cold to me. Very hard to imagine her loving anyone other than Leon.

@EmilyEmmabob

I found it very difficult to have sympathy for Sharma. She was very materialistic and forgave him when she showed her diamonds, knowing that his funds pretty much came from her. What was the phone call about at the end?! She was pretty much forgiving him - maybe I need to watch it again but I don't believe her innocent victim act. He was manipulative but there's no way she's as innocent as she claims. I don't know in what situation it would be ok to not pay your employees and disappear?

Yes this!

Sorry I’m a bit late to the thread as I’ve just finished it now but seriously, what the hell was that all about?

I agree with all the comments here. She didn’t seem empathetic at all especially towards the employees she didn’t pay. Sorry but she may have been a victim as he did seem manipulative but she was very happy to steal money and send it to him. I honestly believe she thought she’d benefit from doing so and didn’t care at all.

Believing you and your dog could be immortal? Ok luv

Sarma explains it all on her blog:
www.sarmaraw.com/writing

I've just read some of her blog. She is still completely deluded and doesn't take any responsibility for what she allowed him to talk her into. Surely as a business woman, you would question and not just had over millions of dollars. She still going on about her being his little blond woman!

Dreadful, selfish, manipulative woman. She gave the game away at one point when she said she uses vagueness to get out of explaining things - that's exactly what she's doing to us. Anthony was a horrible person also of course, even worse than Sarma, but that was never in question. I guess she did this documentary partly for the money and partly for revenge against him. She didn't bargain for the fact that people would see her part in all this too and she wouldn't get away with just playing the innocent victim.

Such a strange subplot about Alec Baldwin. I guess he has a thing for strange women (remember his wife Hilaria being in the news for pretending to be Spanish?).

Even more strange, Alec Baldwin was spotted a few weeks ago having dinner with Martin Bashir in a small town in Hampshire. Most unexpected. And irrelevant to this thread, apologies.

We watched this last week with jaws on the floor.

What I didn't get was, when he turned up the first time looking nothing like his photo, she carried on because she was after the money. That's it. She admitted from the start. And yet he only thing that led her to think he had money was the fake life and 'knowing' Alec Baldwin.

She really fucked that up didn't she.

I found Sarma really frustrating. She didn’t take responsibility for her bad choices and came across passive like and like she just had to give Anthony the money. I just don’t get why she kept giving him money tbh!