Chloe Ayling documentary.

[Birdbrained13]

Anyone watching on IPlayer? I can’t decide what I think of her. Her reactions are so unusual.

Unusual? How? Which other kidnap victims are you comparing her to?

Well, the fact that she never described feeling fear. Having now watched all 3 episodes I think it’s clear why her reactions were thought to be unusual by a lot of people, hence the reaction to the story.

Apparently she has been diagnosed as autistic, and she finds it difficult to articulate her feelings. It must be horrific to go through this experience and then no one believe you.

I think she came across well. I remember the story back then and only read a snippet and assumed then it was all made up. But now having more facts I absolutely believe her. Hope she can put it behind her

I’ve watched all three episodes in iplayer. I thought the programme was good and she presents herself well on it. The autism diagnosis is interesting.
I’m afraid I just don’t believe that she wasn’t in on it. I think she knowingly got involved in the set up and they expected they would be able to get a large amount of money, but when the agent was only able to come up with 20K and no one else paid anything the plan went wrong.

I didn't have a particular opinion at the time but having watched the programme (I watched 6;episodes, have 3 of them gone?) and I did believe her. I thought the actress played her very well in conveying her lack of emotion

This was a new documentary in 3 parts on IPlayer. Not the dramatisation made a few years ago

Thank you, I didn't know there were two, I only watched because it came up as a new programme on my iPlayer home page. I'll look up the newer one

I’m going to watch this later so will come back tomorrow for the responses

I watched the first episode and thought, wouldn't surprise me if she's autistic (have one myself with Asperger's). She has that very sweet but clueless naivety on top of not showing the 'right' emotions. I actually googled it at that point and found out she was autistic.

There's no question that she's telling the truth, if it had been a set up between her and the guy he would have had a ton of evidence to prove it in phone messages, facebook messages and emails - he had absolutely nothing. Plus he completely changed his story to that one after it was all over the press in the UK that she might be lying.

I'm absolutely amazed that anyone could not believe her, to be honest (well apart from maybe that scummy man from the Mirror or whatever rag he was from). I was very unsure before I watched the series but I think you'd have to be not very bright or hate women to still believe she's lying after that.

I thought she did a really good job of making the series which I'm sure really wasn't easy for her.

Why does it matter what you think of her? She's a victim of a horrific crime. Ask yourself if you'd ever say of a male victim 'I can't decide what I think of him'. Her word should have been enough to begin with, but even after police evidence she's still being questioned. Is it because she's a woman, attractive, doesn't respond in a 'typically female' way?