Targeted and attacked – Lexi’s Story
Lexi: [00:00:00] if you call 9 1 1, if you let me leave I will not tell anyone that this happened. I will tell everyone that this is my fault.
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I’m your host Carlin, a Canadian queer identifying 30 something year old, providing a platform for the stories that need to be heard
Good morning, Lexi.
Lexi: morning. How’s it going?
Carling: it going?
Lexi: It is going very well. I’m really excited to be here today.
Carling: Gosh. Thank you so much.[00:01:00]
That’s so nice. What’s your weekend looking like?
Lexi: I just went to a concert last night, so that was fun.
Carling: Who was it? Who’d you see?
Lexi: logic, that’s my,
My boyfriend’s favorite artist. I made him
go, I’m a Taylor Swift fan. I made him go to a Taylor Swift concert last week, so I got, I surprised him with tickets for his birthday to Logic.
He really wanted to go. and it was a lot of fun.
Carling: that’s fun. How was Taylor Swift?
Lexi: Amazing. I am so obsessed with her. I, it was such a I, saw her like, walking past me and she was like a couple feet away and I was like, I can never do anything ever again for the
rest of my life.
Carling: That’s amazing. my
stepdaughter 12 and is like
desperate. We just keep waiting cuz we keep hearing like she’s gonna release Canadian dates and I don’t
Lexi: Yeah. I think it was just Brazil. They came out just on June 1st and she did say lots more international [00:02:00] coming out. So I think that, she’s definitely coming to Canada, so think
that’ll
Carling: I would think so.
Lexi: Yeah.
Carling: . it is so nice to meet you.
Lexi: Yeah.
So nice to meet you.
Carling: Thank you. I’ve been following you on TikTok where I find a lot of people
and I’ve reached out and you were so kind to be willing to share your story on here.
Lexi: Thank you so much for having me on.
Carling: Yeah, your story’s incredible and yeah, I’m excited to get into it.
So I would love it if you could introduce yourself, and then we’ll find out where your story starts.
Lexi: Sure. So my name is Lexi Alexa. I guess people are calling me all different things right now. But I usually go by Lexi I am a 23 year old about to graduate college, student.
I’m a division one athlete in the sport of track and fields. I’m an equestrian. Previously before I went back to college, which I just returned to two years ago, I did horses as a career that’s bit about me. And I got involved in [00:03:00] TikTok just randomly. I enjoyed making videos and then I decided to talk about this and hope maybe like a couple people would see a video so I could clear up some rumors about me that were like going around town for, the last several years. And the video ended up, going viral And I’m here.
It’s pretty cool though.
Carling: Wow. Yeah, that is cool. It sounds like you’ve had so many adventures, but what we’re here to talk about, so you made a post about an incident, like a really crazy incident where a group of people tried to kill you.
Lexi: yes.
Um,
Carling: So like where, I don’t even know, where does your story begin?
Lexi: I’m trying to think of where to take this from. It starts out around the age of 13 and 14. So first of all, when had almost died, I was 16, but it happened in December of 2015. So my birthday is November 25th, so I literally had just turned 16. So I was in a relationship when I was like between 13 and 16 years old.
That was [00:04:00] quite abusive. and the people that were all involved in this event we’re also, friends of his
Yeah, at the time it just seemed like a childish relationship and I didn’t really fully understand, the issues and until, you know, I ended up almost dead in a hospital bed.
Carling: And was he older?
Lexi: So he was, I think he was like a year or two older than me. He wasn’t much older, but the people that he was friends with were older than him. So they were adults. But then I was best friends with someone else that he knew that was actually a little bit younger than me.
And if you’ve seen like any of the TikToks , I refer to like my female best friend a lot who obviously I don’t talk to anymore, she was involved in this. So the two people that were in the room. I believe both of them were adults, although one of them I wa I’m not entirely sure what his age is.
then the girl in the room was younger than me, so there were three people
Carling: So how did you guys meet when you started dating?
Lexi: I had met him just through mutual friends. we had known the same [00:05:00] people.
Carling: Did your family or did anybody around know, that it like wasn’t really a healthy relationship?
Lexi: Yes and no. I don’t think any of my family did, but there was a time where, none of the people that I was really surrounded with, besides his friends and people that like were in close relationships with him and had something to gain out of the situation none of my friends liked him. They had told me like, he’s bad news. Of course we all have social media but his social media accounts were like literally
hate accounts. For people of anyone of color, anyone of a different sexual orientation, he would just make the most like, horrific remarks.
And I was like, I knew that. And I used to get into fights with him about it, but then it turned into, even more abusive. And then I just kind of became afraid of him. And I was like, I’m not, gonna say anything anymore because I was so scared of like being attacked for doing any of that. And they would be like, what are you doing? What? Why this isn’t you? And just like, I don’t [00:06:00] know, maybe it’s, maybe it is me now. And I, of course I didn’t actually think that, but was so scared of The violence that he was like inflicting on me. And as a child, I didn’t know who to turn to. And I had actually, I had turned to I went and talked to the school counselor and I had said that I felt like he was very violent. There was a particular incidence where he told me that he was bringing a knife, around me with the intent of hurting me or hurting someone if I had told anyone or whatever.
And he showed it to me. And so I went and told my school counselor and I know that at that time it was looked into and he was like searched they didn’t find anything. and I remember like going to his media profiles that night, hoping would end.
And he just wrote like a whole long rant about whoever told this like thing. Well, The thing is, I know that he did have a knife on him because he had shown it to me. I don’t know if he had realized that, like I was gonna tell someone or whatever, but I remember at the time he was like, ha ha. You thought that you could catch me and whatever. so I felt really trapped in the [00:07:00] relationship. And also, when he went around, like my parents, he was perfectly nice. So they’re like, ah, this cute kid. He’s so nice and and I don’t think that they were super aware and I was hiding it from them. I asked him to block them on social media and I was just like looking back there should have been a massive red flag, but I was like, I don’t know.
That’s what all 14 year olds in relationships do. We all make mistakes, but this was a lot further from like a simple childhood mistake where I was like, maybe, I don’t know, like maybe
drinking with my friends or something would be like we were
just playing around versus I’m in an actually violent relationship with a horrifically abusive person.
Carling: and I can just , at 14, you don’t wanna talk to your parents about anything anyway.
And so if something like negative is happening, it just feels impossible
to be able to talk to them about it.
Lexi: Yeah. I think that they would’ve listened, but I also was scared that if I had told them, they would’ve just been like, oh, you’re an idiot, or whatever. And would’ve blamed me. now course with [00:08:00] them knowing like I know that wasn’t the case, but it’s so hard to like reason with your
14 year old self when you’re just like, no.
And I would also try to pretend that he was the best ever. I made after he like blocked my parents, at a certain point I made him block all of my friends and then I just told them that he deleted social media. I then would proceed to be like, no, no, no, he’s actually like really good like here, Insert something that he did, but like a lot of the stories were made up. I would be like, oh, he like gave me flowers or whatever. It’s, it wasn’t true. I like went to the
store and bought myself flowers and just wanted
them to be like, he’s so good. Mostly I became scared that they were gonna
tell my parents because they’re, then they’re gonna take him away from me and I almost became a addicted to the relationship because it was like, he tells me I can’t function
without him. I’m scared of what’s gonna happen and I don’t know that there’s life outside of this yet
Carling: wow, that’s so scary. So you’re 14 what leads up to the incident?
Lexi: So the summer of 2015, I’m 15. He went away [00:09:00] to a war stricken country. He was visiting and I remember during that time, , I didn’t see him for a couple months. and he would send like we got into probably the biggest fights, but he would like purposely send me like war footage or footage of people dying.
really Disturbing things. One of the things. I’ve been a vegetarian for most of my life and he would, record videos of like animals being slaughtered and then send them to me
But then eventually he, was moving away. he was going away. to school and I was so excited about this. I was like, oh my God, I’m finally, I’m gonna be free, he got home from where he was and then there was like a two week period where I was like, I’m gonna be free.
I’m never gonna have to see this person ever again. And that’s amazing. I’m not gonna break up with him, but we’re just, we’re gonna break up. We’re never gonna talk again. That’s not what happened. I went into some panic phase where I like started romanticizing every aspect of the relationship.
And I was like, oh my God, I need him. I couldn’t talk to him physically because he didn’t have his phone. And I [00:10:00] sent him like hundreds and hundreds of messages. I actually went back through these when, my TikTok started to go viral because I’m in the process of writing a book. And I’m I want to make sure I’m giving kind of an accurate play-by-play of how things went down. I was going through these messages now at years old, and the messages are all like, I am so scared that you are going to come back and you’re gonna hurt me because I messaged you like a hundred times.
I’m so sorry. And I, and please don’t yell at me and I’m so scared And, but I really need to talk to you and like I’m having these bad thoughts about you going away and whatever. Something terrible has hap it’s just like panic messages. It would be like, Hey, I love you. I miss you. I am so sorry that I sent you this voicemail or this message, or whatever I did. Because you’re probably gonna attack me for that. He did come back , he called me.
When he came back, which was like a month later, he was like, wow, you’re such a psycho. You’re so crazy I don’t know why you’re surprised. Like you never did your job as a girlfriend while we were together you’re pathetic. And then I was begging him to calm down. Cuz I was like, no. Oh my God, no. I don’t [00:11:00] want, you’re gonna do when you come back to happen, please. I’m so sorry that I panic attack for this month while you were away because I’d never functioned without you for my entire, adolescent life pretty much. He stopped having his phone more and more He was like in a pretty solid school program it was like a boarding school. I was still sending him these like loving messages like I was obsessed quite honestly, was just because he had taught me to be that way, and I didn’t think I could be a person without him. so I kind of, I started to trickle off and I continued to hang out with his friends because , I thought his friends were also my friends. I had hoped that it would lead into like, he’s gonna come back and we’re gonna be in this relationship and he is no longer gonna hurt me and it’s all gonna be great because that’s what I was telling everyone it was. I’m a traumatized child. I don’t know any better.
Anyway, his friends were really, a lot of them were really into drugs. I had no understanding how heavy that was. A lot of his friends, I talk particularly about experimenting with smoking weed but his friends a lot of them were like legitimate addicts [00:12:00] and I didn’t know that because it was being shielded from me. , and also I I was a little naive because I’m a 15 year old child who like, very privileged background where I’ve been shielded from a lot of this stuff with, my parents and, these people there’s no shame like addicts, everyone struggles with something. But I had no idea, looking back, they made comments about it, sometimes they would mention a drug name by its street name and I wouldn’t know what it was. kind of a funny story, but There was this one time where, I was looking for witch hazel to you use it to clean off the horses and I asked My friend if she had angel dust. And I thought that was what it was called because they had been talking about angel dust for a really long time around me. And I was like, what the hell is that? And so I remember he had a bottle of witch hazel and he was like, oh, it’s this. And I was like, oh, okay. So which Hazel is like [00:13:00] spray or whatever is angel dust. And my friend was like, you’re a moron. And I Googled it and it was certainly not that. And I realized like there were so many street names for things that naive 15 year old me who like did not know any better because I came from like my privileged life where I never had to look at any of this, that also did make me feel like a little bit more manipulated because they did a lot of things like they. The people involved involved with the law a lot of the time. They got into a lot of trouble. They had a lot of arrest and they would do things like particularly they would take me places with with the idea that like, I was the little white girl and I’m naive and stupid and I don’t know what’s going on.
So, I can be like a cover for anything. and I remember it getting scary later down the line. There were times where, they gave me things to experiment with and I wasn’t sure what it I really didn’t even know what it was later on, but they were just like, oh, it’s weed.
It’s not a big deal, whatever. And I was just like, okay, yeah, that’s what that looks like. I feel like everyone [00:14:00] listening to this episode is gonna be like why did you do this? But no one had ever told me any differently.
Carling: Yeah, I can think of so many times in my youth that I was so dumb
because I just didn’t, I just trusted people and I, believed what people said. And
I think at 13 to 15, like that’s what you
do.
Lexi: Yeah. I would do so many things that, like after this I was like, I can’t believe I didn’t end up dead so many other times. when I first started trying like alcohol or whatever, and I was in that, 13 to 15 year range and I would sneak out of my house to go drink with my adult friends.
And I look at it and I’m like, you guys the grownups in this situation. you shouldn’t taken someone that’s like very clearly naive. There was no way that anyone could have thought that I knew any better. It was so obvious. And then, so we were like smoking weed on and off with each other, and I had been doing it for quite a long time at this point. They had introduced me to it. It was something that I did enjoy doing. But I was also like hiding it and being careful and doing, doing the whole thing [00:15:00] that a kid lying to their parents. Does. My mom’s gonna listen to this episode she knows all of this but she would ask me I’d put in like eyedrops , and she’d be like did you do something? And I’d be like, no, I just like eye drops. . , so the day it happened, There were a lot of red flags that something was gonna go down because I had hung out with them the week prior. And I remember we had smoked together. This is this is an interesting detail in this story, but we had smoked together and I was like super duper nervous paranoid
and that was like the first time that had happened. And I just thought it was because in mid-November , I was taking like a little bit of a tea break, as we called it. I was going on a tolerance break and I’m not gonna smoke weed for a little bit.
And then I smoked it again and I was like a little paranoid, a little nervous, but I remember this day distinctly being really scary because this was when I realized that I really wasn’t maybe hanging out with the best people. It was the same three people that were there.
And I remember one of the guys being like, oh, make sure it doesn’t get out. That we’re like, at my house because I don’t [00:16:00] want someone to come here. I don’t want them to show up with a gun and I was like, what are you talking? And then that’s where it dawned on me like, oh, not just hanging out with people that are like teenage potheads. I am hanging out with people that maybe know some people and like maybe we’re not in a good area and like maybe this is actually an unsafe situation.
His friend did end up coming over. Nothing ended up happening, but he made me and the other girl who was younger than me, go hide in the bathroom. And we like hid in the cabinets I don’t know why I went back after that and I still to this day don’t really know like what it was.
I think I just rationalized it. We did hide. And I remember when they had left, feeling like I was super fucked up. I, I couldn’t have a coherent conversation. I remember I didn’t smoke that much and I said to him like, this is really weird. I didn’t smoke that much and we were not in a safe area. He was like, all right, just go home and get some sleep.
And I had to take the train home and it was like two or three in the morning and I asked him, I was like, can you walk me? And my friend who is 14 years old to the train [00:17:00] station? And he was like, no, we’re not like doing that.
I walked us through. A very unsafe area at two, three in the morning to a train station where the, like we were like putting eyedrops in our eyes so we could go home.
I had to figure out where we were sleeping because neither of us could go home to our parents because we were so messed up. And that should have like, looking back, that was like the first red flag. And there will be a part in the story where that will make sense, but I just was like, I was calm, we got on the train, we’re lucky that nothing happened, and the night before it happened, so it was like Friday night, it happened on a Saturday, and she was just like, Hey, like we’re gonna go hang out with like so-and-so tomorrow if you wanna come. And I was like, I don’t think like my mom’s gonna let me come because I just had to lie to her
And she was just like, no, like it, it’s gonna be so fun. And I was like, my mom’s not letting me go over there. And then she basically, she texted me and she was like, listen, I need a huge favor from you.
Like she had done a lot of fuck ups and I had saved her multiple times and I had to have [00:18:00] my parents save her multiple times. Like when she was getting in trouble she was constantly doing like things that were illegal or could get us in shit
and she didn’t ever tell me what she did, but she was just like, I’m in trouble. . I need you to go and hang out with these kids tomorrow with me. I was like, why? And she was like because one of them really likes you he has like a huge crush on you and I think that you guys would be really good together and I was like, I don’t think so. This guy, he was one of the three friends, one of the two boys, and I did think he was cute, but at this point I was like, absolutely not. And I was just going through like this breakup , I was hoping was gonna come back. And she was like, oh, it’s gonna make so and so jealous.
And I was like, all right I guess I’ll go and we’ll hang out and it’ll be fine, because it’s always fine. And we’re staying for two hours and then we’re going home we’re watching movies. I remember that. So I lied to my mom and I was like, mom am gonna go hang out with, a different friend that my mom loved. And so I had to figure out a way to get To my other friend’s house. I decided [00:19:00] that I was gonna, I was gonna cross over paths. This is a huge mistake of mine. I was gonna say that this friend, like friend that was involved and friend that’s completely uninvolved and literally was never there.
They know each other, they met and they now hang out. Sometimes I like random crossover events. I was like these people know each other and we’re actually all gonna hang out because they’re throwing me a birthday party. Because I just turned 16. so we’re just going there and it’s a chill night, and she was just like, I
can’t say no cuz it’s a, it’s your birthday
party. Like, What am I supposed to say? So she was like, okay, like where is not involved friend? And I was like, oh, she is I don’t know. She’s coming a whole text message thread, with her that might be a lie. I don’t even know if I faked a text message thread or if I asked her to be in on the plan. I think I had texted her. She’s pretty mad when she was like, when the police like showed up and talked to her obviously for good reason.
So we n we never really talked again. I don’t really remember like how that all happened or if I, how that [00:20:00] lie had went down. But point is it did, so I remember we went to that friend’s house. We ate Chinese food. It started as like a chill day, but. Big, really distinct thing.
She tells me that, I think this happened in text the night before, but she was like, you need to look super hot. Like I’m talking like, you need to wear a thong because I was wearing normal underwear because I’m 15. And she’s like, no underwear lines and you can’t talk about insert thing that I was talking about that she thought was weird.
They’re gonna think you’re weird and I really need you to do this favor cuz I really messed up bad and whatever. And I’m thinking like maybe she owed them money or maybe she did something And he’s like, Hey, if you can get your friend to like, go on a date with my friend or whatever. , I remember I was sitting on her floor and she was like, she like made an audible, like disgusted noise. She’s Ugh, like you look terrible and need to change all your clothes.
And so she like completely changed me. So my clothes to this day, the clothes that I was originally wearing, which also made it harder , for when the cops came, when my, we’ll get into that part. But like my [00:21:00] parents, what I had left the house in was not what I
came to the hospital in.
And I had changed into, the outfit that she thought was appropriate she was putting makeup on me and then she handed me mascara and she was like, keep applying it.
If you think you have enough, you don’t have enough. And had, I just gotten my braces off. They were just the bottoms and not the tops. And she was like, you look like so immature and was like, making fun of me. And we were talking about ways to like make me. hotter and like more grown up.
So I was like, okay, whatever. But she’s my best friend. And you know what, like, I, I trust you because everyone always liked her and they didn’t like me. And they didn’t like me.
because. I don’t think there was like much of an excuse to be terrible as some kids were with like the bullying. But a lot of kids didn’t like me because I was very naive and stupid and didn’t have a whole lot of awareness about, things that were going on.
, we have her dad drive us to the lie that we’re telling is we’re going to a movie theater and we’re gonna go watch a [00:22:00] movie and we’re actually gonna spend, like most of the day there watching this movie, and they don’t need to pick us up we’re gonna take the train back. I remember we were like taking selfies in the back. Distinct. This is like my last very clear memory was we were taking pictures in the back and an Ariana Grande song came on the radio and I’m a huge Ariana Grande fan, so I remember being like, it’s gonna be a good day.
And I was like tweeting and texting my friends I thought nothing was gonna happen. I thought we were going to the movie theater and then we were gonna take this train home and we, it was all fun and games we decided we’re gonna walk to the location of the guy’s house, which was like maybe three or four minutes away.
I remember her saying to me then I’m not smoking, and I was like, again, another red flag. Like we’ve gone through 50 of them at this point. But I was like, oh, you taking a tea break too? I just took one. she was like, oh yeah, like for sure.
And I was just like, okay. Cool. Like I, I’ll maybe like have a drink, but I’m not even sure. When I replayed this back, and especially when I like talked to investigators about it later on she like, sounded [00:23:00] very nervous and I remember being like, why are you
nervous? And asking her and she was just like, Oh. I don’t want my parents to catch us and whatever. And I was like, okay what’s go, what’s going on here? She’s nervous. My brain is nervous. cuz like I’m go on a date with her That’s like also my friend that I don’t really even know if I like and she’s in trouble and I don’t know. So we go, we hang out there. I don’t remember like I’m pretty sure it was a three family home and we were on the second floor because, Everything started to obviously get hazy after this point.
So I think it was a three family home and we were on the second floor because I remember like having walked up through somewhere either way we got into his room. I remember there was like a kitchen and then there was his room and there was, there’s like a bed that we were sitting on.
And then he’s sitting in a couch in front of us, and then there was like another couch to the side. And the room literally looks like you would imagine any, I, any room that you would go to, like trip on drugs would look like there were like strobe lights. There were like,
I remember thinking that and I was like oh [00:24:00] my God. And I was just like, this is like weird. It’s not, again, It’s not, a weed smoker’s room. This is like a room. you’re tripping and so there were like strobe lights and that was like stressful and we were just like sitting down and everyone was talking . And it happened very quickly, where he was like, all right, let’s get the stuff. he said get the drugs rolling or whatever. And I was like, I remember being like, what is going on? Like she’s being like, this is so weird, but. Again, I’m gonna be cool. So she quickly says, Alexis smoking. And I was like, oh, I am. And she was like, yeah, your brake’s over and I was like, oh, okay. And so he like, lights up. It was a water bottle bong. And I remember he like puts his thumb over it and he hands it to me and he goes, ladies first. I was like, I don’t know. Like, and I, I laughed. I was like, damn, why? You gotta seem like you’re doing something bad I like made a joke about it.
so he like laughs and he hands it to me. . So I like inhaled and I held it in my lungs as you would. And I see everyone [00:25:00] start going, like looking back and forth to each other. Then he smiles and I like coughing.
And I remember right away just being like, that tasted weird, nice. The time I was like, that had a weird taste. and he was like, I didn’t know that you were gonna, you inhale it that long. And so I was like, why wouldn’t I you smoke with me all the time? We literally just what are you talking about? ? And he was like, no, nothing that just, that’s some fire shit. And I was like, okay, and I think I said something like, what you think I can’t hang? And he was like, I’m not sure you’re gonna be able to hang with this. And I was like, whatcha are you talking about? He was just like, nothing, I’m gonna go get you some water. And so he goes and gets me water. I also don’t know to this day because of the amount of drugs that came up in my system later on, if he puts something in the water cuz it was just a regular glass of water.
So he gave me the water. I started drinking And I think it happened, I would say maybe max, like three or four minutes where I started to hallucinate. The first thing that I saw, [00:26:00] I didn’t know I was hallucinating. I like saw my grandmother, my, my grandmother had passed away and I was like hanging out with her. And it was like, when you fall asleep, you don’t really know, you fall asleep and you’re dreaming and then it’s like a dream and you’re just like, oh my God, that is what it felt like. I ran over towards her and she was just like screaming at me and sh and what she kept saying was like, Alexa, do you remember falling asleep?
And I just remember it actually sounded robotic, but it was like, you remember falling asleep? you remember falling asleep? And then all of a sudden, I remember like in this dream I like felt like a sharp hit to my jaw. And then I fell down on the floor.
And then I heard someone say it’s time to open your eyes. And when I opened my eyes. I was in the room, I was on the floor, I was being attacked. And then I like remember like my hair got grabbed this way. And I like tripped back into a hallucination.
And I remember everything like turning to spiders. I had like horrifically torturing hallucinations where they were like spiders. Like [00:27:00] my grandmother had like rats coming out of her mouth. I had a friend that died and I saw her, but then like she was like being murdered in front of me. Like the most horrific, like gruesome things. And at
a certain point, I started, I was choked. Like I, I was choked against a wall, and I was like, fighting back. And I remember just being like stop. I’m going to die. Stop. And I remember like my voice having so much seriousness.
I was like, stop. I’m going to die. I’m to die. Please get off of me as soon as I started getting choked, I was like, and then I like flipped backwards almost. And it was like I was hallucinating. It would just be weird hallucinations. Like with my neck and like the spiders would come out of my mouth or I’d look down at my hand and it would like disintegrate in front of me. so I was like trying really hard to focus on his eyes and beg him to get off of me fast forward through all of that. cuz there were like a lot of stuff, but it’s so like hazy, like my brain can almost see the what, my mind’s eye, I guess. like [00:28:00] what was happening still. Then I remember hearing someone scream I remember at one point. at my phone and I was going, it was like an iPhone six and it was made of glass and I was gonna shatter it and try to fight back with that. And I remember like ripping out chunks of my hair so that they’d be everywhere in the room. And I saw an open window at the other end of the room. So while like he was like holding me, I was like, I’m gonna run to the open window. I’m gonna jump out the window because yes, I’m gonna die probably cuz I’m pretty sure we’re on like the second or third story . Or I’m gonna get hurt, but at least it’ll
be on my own terms. And I remember I was like, please stop. I don’t wanna be murdered. . I kept saying that And I kept pleading. I was like, you do not wanna do this. You’re not. And I was like, looking at my friend, I was like, please stop.
Carling: And how many people are in the, place? Three people. So the two guys and the girl.
Lexi: Yeah. So they’re in there while this is happening I’m like, please you don’t have to do this. You can call 9 1 1. You can stop this. , I looked at all of them and I was like, if you stop [00:29:00] this, if you call 9 1 1, if you let me leave on my own terms today, I will not tell anyone that this happened. I will never, I will tell everyone that this is my fault. I will take credit for absolutely everything, which is what I did, but we’ll get there. So I was like, I will never speak another word to this. And then that wasn’t working. They were still like, I was still being attacked. I was like, whatever I did, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean it. If I had ever done anything, if you don’t wanna be friends with me anymore, I will stop everything.
Please just stop hurting me . They were just laughing and I was like, I kept looking for things around the room that I could fight back with, and they’re just like, nothing. And I kept trying to hit back. And then I remember my last resort was, I started saying like vile things.
It was, like, you know what? I always knew you were a terrible person. You have the ugliest space I’ve ever seen. No wonder no one likes you or what. Like I just, I was hoping like maybe I could get a reaction or I’m gonna be able to go, because I remember the door was like right next to me and I could maybe grab the door and I could maybe [00:30:00] run out.
So then I remember that someone screamed. I thought you said she was going to be quiet I was like, what are you, like, what is going on? I don’t really know how this part happened, but next thing I know, I went into a bunch of hallucinations I was like going in and out of consciousness. I described this story very much like it happened linearly, but it very much did not, it was probably a decent period of time. But I ended up on the floor somehow and I remember him screaming you’re gonna wake up my neighbors I thought you said she would be quiet, and then I hear someone come in the room and I, and just staring like in my like off hallucination cuz I was maybe going in every like minute or two I guess. I don’t
really know the actual timeline of that. But I remember I was like staring I saw like the legs of the chair and I saw like his mother had come into the room and I don’t think that he knew she was home. But his mom was just like, What is going on? You need to get her out of here. I don’t care what happens. The girl’s probably gonna die and she’s not, she can’t die on my property. Get her out. And he was like, [00:31:00] oh, you know, like I’m shutting her up like, she’s clearly not gonna shut up. Just get off my property. And I remember she came and grabbed me up and I like ran past her I remember I ran as fast as I could down the stairs and I grabbed the door handle and I like ran out into the street. My friend the female, like running downstairs and she was like chasing me and she grabbed me she dug her fingernails in and she was like, do you even where you are? And this is when I, it really hit me cuz everything didn’t, it was scary, but it was like nightmare.
And I just, have you ever had a dream where you like, keep falling back into the
dream? Yeah. So it felt like sleep paralysis. So yes, I was scared. Yes. I was begging for my life. Yes, all of these things are true. But the first time that I had the realization that what was happening when I had opened up that door and like the sun came in and she had said do you remember where you are?
Because that’s when it hit me. . I was like oh my God. like I’m awake. I’m awake. This is happening and she like dug her [00:32:00] fingernails into me and like kicked me to the ground. and she was like, you’re high and you’re having fun. Now we’re going back.
And I was like, I’m not going back. And I remember I had this moment of like, that’s the first time I ever said no. And I ran down the street and like I, I run track, like I’m decently fast, I can run. And so like I ran and I started screaming at the top of my lungs.
Someone help me, I’m going to die. They’re trying to kill me. And people were stopping cuz they’re like, okay what’s going on? And I remember seeing people like record. So she says to everyone, oh my God, this is my sister and she’s schizophrenia, and I am so sorry.
But she, and I was like, no, don’t listen her. I don’t have schizophrenia. Like shes a liar. She just attacked me. I remember like my hand was bleeding and she was like, your hand’s not bleeding And I was like, no. Look, like I, I definitely absolutely looked like a crazy person, like screaming on the road.
And she was like, she’s just, had a moment and she has [00:33:00] schizophrenia really bad, and please don’t call 9 1 1 she’ll be really upset and then people were like, oh, I’m so sorry. That must be so difficult.
And she was like, you’re embarrassing. My sister, she has a serious mental health condition going on. I can’t even explain how I felt. As I’m like, I can’t even keep my consciousness for like a minute. I’m falling in and out of these hallucinations. and so when I’m out of them, I’m trying to scream and I’m trying to get attention. I don’t know if during periods, if I’m on the floor, I don’t know what I’m doing.
I’m not like seeing it I guess. So I’m like begging for help, and I just remember the entire time I was like you can have anything.
Like I will, I will never talk to again. I will never tell anyone. And I remember that the reason that she said that she wasn’t gonna call the police or call nine one one was because there were drugs in that house that he was gonna say that the drugs were mine And then we were both gonna go, we were gonna go to prison.
so this is like part of the reason that I do definitely think manipulation, like played [00:34:00] in with her, even though I don’t think her actions were excusable, because I think she essentially did bring me to them. I don’t know that she fully ever knew what
was going down or what was
gonna
happen.
Carling: And had the guys run out at this point, had they come after you?
Lexi: I don’t think that they did, I think that his mom made it like very clear, you were not doing that. And I found out he had a lot of pending charges. So I think it would’ve been super, like if I, if it wasn’t like clean cut, I just died And I think that the reason that this was like a thing was like, it really looked like I died of an overdose. That would’ve been like my cause of death. . Essentially I had lethal amounts of drugs in my system. And as far as the friend, what the investigators have said to me that they had assumed was , and like I know that something happened because she did confirm that to me like many months later. And she confirmed that with like police and whatever, we’ll get to that point. But I think that she had thought Potentially that she had thought that they were going to like assault me, it was going to be like a rape thing which I don’t [00:35:00] think makes it any better, but I think that she just like, okay.
Like it might have been a situation where it was like it’s either gonna be you or her or something like that. I don’t, again, I don’t really know. I get questions a lot because even when she was questioned about this, and I don’t know if it’s true or not, but she had said that she didn’t know
so I guess empathetic in a way as an adult to that situation because I think that stuff like this does happen a lot of times in crimes where like someone else was manipulated or, they didn’t always know. so that being said, She was telling everyone that.
It wasn’t real. I think we got into like a physical altercation of some sort at some point. but basically how that story ends is I end up again, the exact order that this happened. Everything that I’m like talking about, there’s so many things and I like never really remember the exact order because drugs were in play and trauma and memory and dissociation and while I can concretely be like, yes, these things happened to, this is the story it was such a hazy time period but I [00:36:00] remember I was talking to someone, And she had told them, I think I might have passed out or something, but she had told them that I was having a panic attack and this guy ended up happening to be a therapist.
And so he started talking to me and I was like, no, you don’t understand. I am on drugs. She drugged me. She attacked me, call 9 1 1. he was like your sister has made it very clear to me like you have schizophrenia, honey. And he’s like, rubbing my hand. And he was like, so I understand that can feel very scary.
I was like no. It feels like I had hallucination where everything was collapsing in on me. I couldn’t physically see anyone. And he was just like, that is what a panic attack feels like.
That’s what a lot of my clients describe it as. And. I like, can’t breathe. He’s like the hyperventilating is because of the panic attack. No, the hyperventilating was because I was I was dying of an overdose and the medical professionals have fully confirmed absolutely.
If I did not get to the hospital at the time, I would have died. I would be 100% dead. This man who I think was talking to me like I, this [00:37:00] was maybe like 15, 20 minutes, like that, this all started to when it ended. So I’m not like quite there yet. He thinks I’m just having a panic attack. I’m like hyperventilating in front of him I asked him if he has any water. Cause I remember, I felt like I was like swallowing my own heart and like my tongue again a hallucination. And he told me he had a diet coke cuz we were like right outside of the movie theater. I took this man’s diet coke and I chugg it and I remember it like poured all over me. Some other guy, he had walked out and I’m like still screaming, like other guy had walked out and he was like on the phone with someone. I think I, I guess that there were also numerous 9 1 1 calls, which I guess makes sense cuz a lot of people probably called but given the area that I was in, I think that it’s common. And especially if someone on the phone was like, oh, this girl, like she’s screaming for help. She says she’s been attacked, so I see that this guy’s on the phone and he’s asking me, he was like, so what happened? Like, what? And he starts asking me a bunch of questions And she starts talking over me and he’s [00:38:00] like, I’m not talking to you. I’m talking to
Carling: Thank God.
Lexi: So I had my phone, which again was like the iPhone six.
And you know how there’s like the emergency contacts on it. . So we were like fighting for my phone, which I don’t remember if it was broken at this point, cuz like at some point my phone did break. I don’t remember if I had broken it, like I said, if I had used it for something but I had tried to pull my phone were like fighting for my phone and then I kept screaming like, Hey Siri, call mom or something like that. I don’t really remember if it was Siri or not, but there was something on the phone so somehow my mom got called and my mom answers the phone. She was going to a gymnastics meet with my sister, who was eight at the time, my youngest sister. And she was with her friend, so I guess she answered and she was like, hi, honey. And I heard her, and I remember I said, mommy, and I started screaming. was like, mommy, I fucked up. on drugs. She gave me drugs. They attacked me, blah, blah, blah. And I’m like, screaming this. I was like, mommy, call 9 1 1. I’m going to die. I’m really scared. . And I remember hearing what? And then I remember she like took my phone and she threw it and that, and my phone broke.[00:39:00] And I think that was because I probably had a tracker on my, like I, I think my mom had my location or she was afraid that she did now my mom is alerted, so my mom starts calling 9 1 1, but my mom doesn’t know where I am and is telling the police like, my daughter is in a turquoise sweatshirt and leggings and blah, blah blah. And she looks like this whole time I look completely different. And she doesn’t know that they were sitting in traffic on the way to this gymnastics meet. So she’s I guess on the phone like, crying and like obvious panic, but then trying to be calm and be like, everything’s okay sweetie. and she’s talking to every like 9 1 1 operator. She calls her friend who’s an investigator in the area and she explains the situation. And how they ended up finding me is that friend called every single police area in like the general whatever, every single 9 1 1 dispatch asking for, because they didn’t know my name.
They didn’t know any of that. Like basically describing the situation. She gave tentative locations, they had people trying to track my cell phone, which wasn’t working at this [00:40:00] point, basically what ends up happening is I remember saying, I was like, I it. I can’t do it anymore. . Make sure you tell my mom, I’m sorry, since you killed me, and I like collapsed. I was like, in front of this white house on the sidewalk. I collapsed and I started to have seizures. I had multiple consecutive seizures according to the person that was watching from my understanding.
And I, and he couldn’t find a pulse anymore, they, this was never, I mean, that was what, like he said to the dispatch So he gave me c p r
Carling: is your friend still
Lexi: around So I guess she started running. So she like ran down the road and I guess someone chased her or something, or if it was the E M T, I know she got back there.
From my understanding, someone gave me Narcan. That’s always been what’s written in the notes . And I don’t remember if it was the E M T or if it was the guy on the street but I know that she had said this part of the story, I don’t think I’ve ever told anyone, but she had said, she tried to tell everyone that I had a heart condition and I must be having a reaction to the weed [00:41:00] and then that’s when she ran off. And I remember someone saying to her, it was the E M T that said this because when I got into the ambulance, he had said to her, I was like, very much like drifting in and out of consciousness at this point. But I had I was like not fully there, but I had been given medication.
He was saying like, she would not have responded to that medication if she hadn’t overdosed if like she didn’t have opiates in her system. So I remember they took me on the ambulance and I could not communicate.
I could not tell them my name. They, were asking questions that I couldn’t answer. The only thing that got any reaction out of me was when I finally started talking, I had said to them I have two horses. Their names are Pollen Lightening, they’re black and white, that is the only thing I remembered about myself.
So that was kind of like, okay, like she’s there but I remember they made her get on the ambulance and She started taking pictures of me and posting them on Snapchat. And she was like, they were like shutting the ambulance cuz they, the EMTs were not having it. And she was like recording me like, Lexi, you’re my best friend. Lexi, I’m so [00:42:00] sorry. Lexi. And I had like, they had like oxygen on I had all of my clothes off because they were doing stuff , I had needles everywhere cuz they were
trying to give me like different medications, see what they could do. so the EMT made her get on the ambulance and like sit up front and she was like, she has a heart condition. and he was like, she does not, she doesn’t but right now based on her E K G, like, my EKG was resemblance of like having a heart attack. So they were saying she’s like, I don’t really, if it was like an overdose or if it was uh, I mean, obviously I responded to that or if I was having like a true reaction to it with like my heart, but the medical problems I was having were all cardiac. To this day, I still have problems with it ended up triggering, heart condition in me. And I remember him like holding my hand, rubbing it and being like, I don’t know if you can hear me, but this person’s not your friend.
And I, whenever, at whatever point I could start talking again, I had said No, my best friends would never hurt me. And he was like, no, sweetie. they, they did and they, they didn’t hurt you. I [00:43:00] got brought in there and I remember everyone was rushing in there were like so many people and the E m T had called the police and said, I think a crime is in progress. I need police to meet us there. I need basically like, you need to take evidence off of this girl’s body right away.
We need to find out what’s happening. Take pictures of everything. Do not let anyone touch her, especially the girl she’s with. And as soon as we got off the ambulance, everyone was like rushing around me and she had a water bottle and she kept giving me sips of water and they were like, you cannot give her sips of water.
We don’t know if we were gonna have to intubate her. Like she is in very critical condition. she wanted that drug test to not show up positive so bad
that she was trying to dilute the, the,
drugs in my system. And I remember them being like, horrified like I was not conscious. I remember it like happening, but I was like very much like just there and she was pouring it down my throat and they were like, I don’t know what you don’t understand.
She can’t swallow. She like, we’re not sure if we’re gonna have to put her like on life support. And [00:44:00] you’re giving her water. do not do that. Don’t touch her. They had like the police. Come in And I remember they said that they were going to room, we were going to room 18 or something.
And I remember this is no, I’m 16, not 18, because I was
scared that she had told them that I was 18. And that was another
lie. And they were gonna think I was responsible for myself and not, and my parents weren’t gonna get called and it was gonna be a whole thing. . And then I like passed out again. I was treated in the hospital. They did all of this stuff. And they had come in the room, they had explained to me that, like you were attacked, you have a lot of physical signs, and I was just like, didn’t happen. Didn’t happen. She says it didn’t happen. And so she came into my room, they didn’t allow her into my room, but she snuck in and she was like, okay, so here’s the story we’re gonna tell them. That when we were at the movie theater that you didn’t like how your breath smelled.
So you got a mint from this big black guy. I remember she was like very racist. So she specifically mentioned that he was like a black guy so tell them that you got a mint from him and you took it, but it actually was a pill. [00:45:00] And so that was the story she gave the police and so the police came in the room and I don’t think, like I lied to them cuz I really couldn’t talk.
A big problem that we always had with this, even to this day when people have looked back at my case, is that the police came in the room for the first time and got my initial statement when I was so heavily intoxicated. I could not talk, I couldn’t remember my own name. And I guess that the only thing that I said is my best friends would never hurt me.
Or some, it was like something along that line, those lines. My grandparents came to the hospital first and they had sat with me . I just remember feeling so bad and like my grandfather was like rubbing my head. The EMTs were sitting in the room with me. They actually, they did an amazing thing and they said that they were not going back to their shift. That what they had seen tonight was so disturbing that they decided to sit with me in the room, holding each of my hands cuz I was so scared and just crying with me, like rubbing my hand, comforting me reassuring me and at some point I kept [00:46:00] asking everyone if I was going to die. I remember hearing people talking outside of the room, like, is she like, is she gonna make it from this?
I was in very bad shape, just like responding to the drugs and they were like pushing fluids. I was on, you know, a continuous trip. They were giving me a lot of medication to treat the, overdose. They were waiting for the tox screen results, which ended up coming up positive for k2, which is spice, synthetic marijuana, and opiates. But it had several ones in there. But I remember the most like distinct, I’m pretty sure with fentanyl, but I could be mistaken about that cause I don’t have access to the drug test anymore.
But I remember that was like one of them. We don’t know for sure which drug was the kicker, but I know that there
was more than enough lethal amount. And I had a catheter. I couldn’t go to the bathroom. this is the whole thing. And they even had the priest come in And pray with me because I’m a pretty religious person so my mom gets to the hospital and when my mom walks in the room, I have no idea who she is. I had no idea who my grandparents were either. And I remember feeling [00:47:00] scared cuz I was like, I know I love this person. I feel that I love this person, but I cannot recognize her for the life of me. My eyes were constantly rolled into the back of my head. I was foaming at the mouth. I was not able to talk to them. There were a lot of things that my parents and my grandparents had said it was the most traumatic day of their lives by far.
Carling: You physically really injured, like your hand was bleeding? Were you swollen or
Lexi: there were signs of assault for sure, but it was more like, like
I had been severely beaten or anything. I think everything was pretty healed within like a couple days. But then like again, I had substances in my body. Like I was just like choked. It wasn’t like I was dying because of like this, I do call it an attack cuz I was attacked, I wasn’t dying because I was attacked.
I was dying because I had essentially overdosed on a substance. So the police had talked to my mom asked her if she thought that I would do this myself, because that’s what I was telling them. She said no. And basically said okay, do you think she would lie for someone else?
And she said that it’s possible. But [00:48:00] at that point the blackmail had kind of started. I was being told like, you’re going to prison. You’re gonna if we don’t get this story straight, you’re going to prison or he’s gonna kill your entire family. Like he has connections that are gonna kill your entire family.
Do you want that to be your fault? You promised that you wouldn’t say anything. Now we’re gonna throw you down with us. That was happening while I was in the hospital and I’m so used to like what I was explaining to you earlier and why that was so important. My stupidity is I’m so used to a situation where I can just be like, yeah, it is what it is.
And that’s what I really thought was gonna happen. I was just like, okay, this is the most awful thing that ever happened to me. But my body’s gonna recover and I don’t want anyone else to die because of it. And I was really scared of that. Now an interesting fact about me that she had known and he had known, like all of them knew cuz I was best friends with them, was that I I have obsessive compulsive disorder and one of my compulsions is like that.
I would be like, if I do something wrong, like someone else will die because of it. And they knew that. . And it’s all gonna be your fault. I was also unfortunately diagnosed [00:49:00] with drug-induced psychosis, which lasted for several months after.
I got diagnosed I think, I mean I never left psychosis I mean I left like I’m not in psychosis anymore, but we had no way of diagnosing it right then and there cuz it was just like, okay, this, she’s in psychosis still. They that got diagnosed a couple weeks later and.
I Did have other mental health problems after that. I still obviously am diagnosed with PTs, d other stuff. But yeah, because I had psychosis, they would do things like actually all of the, investigators are spies that we hired and they’re going to tell us everything and then, if you tell them the truth, then your entire family’s gonna die.
so they like really played with I was not well my mind and my state. And essentially what happened And why no one was charged was because they did
not have a cooperative witness.
Everyone
wanted to make
charges, but no one could ever concretely get a story of what happened. Cuz they knew that everything that I was telling them was bullshit So I [00:50:00] wasn’t willing to tell them and I also didn’t believe that they were helping me. so for this to actually like, likely, yeah, it would’ve gone to trial. was evidence. We had, we have the 9 1 1 call. You can hear me like, begging for life. We have we had like security footage, all of this stuff at the time on top of, I had made numerous police reports against my abuser and he was involved in the friend group.
So they have like potential motive. Like they were Like sitting me down and explaining all of this. and I was just like, no. No thanks. they could not get me to cooperate. And I told them, I was like, if you try to put me on the stand, I’m gonna lie. And then you’re gonna have me perjure myself , there were like months, They were just like, Alexa, like you were assaulted. This is attempted murder and, we need charges but we can’t really pursue the without you because they’re gonna get dropped as soon as they if the police were to press it and it gets prosecution it’s not gonna go anywhere.
Because if I’m not willing to hand over access to like my phone and evidence and whatever, yeah, they could subpoena it, but I think that their idea was we’re like, this kid has been through so much, like from [00:51:00] their perspective, and I know this cause I’ve talked to them since, like I’ve been through so much, we’re really gonna subpoena her cell phone and look through all of these records and try to force her to, go on the stand and tell a story.
So it was really so much like trying to get me to be cooperative. And that was not happening. It did not happen whole time. Like I wanted the justice. I actually used to sit in my room and write victim impact statements and imagine what it would be like if I were ever able to stand in a room and tell them how much
that this had hurt me.
But,
Carling: Oh
Lexi: there were like many times, like I was in and out of the hospital, I had multiple suicide attempts because I was in such severe psychosis. And I would end up like, not even being able, like one of my biggest hallucinations was that I was trapped inside of a coma that I had to kill myself to get out of because that was something they told me.
The truth is, I always knew, I knew from day one I was telling my friends, my real friends, the real story, but I was so scared that if I had told these people that they tell me are going to harm me, so I never got that, but I later [00:52:00] out that the girl had drug charges, possession to distribute, all of that. One of them has charges. I think the charge was assault on a minor or threatening of a minor. The other has larceny charge a bunch. Just they all have various charges that existed after me and made it so clear that it, it was like these were not just, I mean, Everyone makes mistakes, you know, but like these people consistently, even after what happened to me and also I found charges before.
I found charges from 2013, where one of them had attacked a police officer. And so I never got the peace with that. And then one of the other most heartbreaking parts of the story is that he had started a pattern of, because he was always with adults.
He, as in my abuser, me being friends with a lot of older people and then putting myself in these vulnerable situations because I’m in psychosis. So I’d hang
out with a lot of these people. And then things [00:53:00] would happen. I ended up being assaulted. Lots of things that went on for even years afterwards because I didn’t really know what was like right or wrong. And quite honestly, I, the first time that I had ever really even grasp yeah, it was a story of like, this happened, but I’m never telling anyone. I remember kids were like whispering about me and would be like, like that’s the girl that like this happened to cause there was lots of stories through the grapevine and I would be like, wrong kid.
Didn’t happen. like, I was like, they showed up to the wrong house so lie. And I tried so hard to bury it and pretend it didn’t happen and I never spoke about it. And then sometimes I would talk about it as cool party story guys, it was almost killed, but never a haha it was actually like so deeply traumatic, but, I still wasn’t processing it, but then when I started to go to therapy, I was talking to my therapist and I was like, wow, I just feel so guilty because of this, this, and this. And he was just like, oh, so you mean when they like attacked and assaulted you and I was like, what are you talking? Like, No one had ever used those words. because everyone was [00:54:00] tiptoeing around language. No one had been like, you almost died. , this would’ve been a murder charge had you been dead. No one ever said any of that to me because they were trying so hard to not make it sound scary. and Then when people started using that language and I was like, Oh my God. That’s what happened. And I thought whole time here I am being like, oh my gosh. Yeah. This is a funny, not funny at all. Story and as I get older, of course now I process like I almost died. Like
a guy on the side of the road says my heart wasn’t beating anymore and he had to give me c p r like I was, I almost, needed lifesaving lifesaving treatments
Carling: yeah. Do you, did you ever find out, it doesn’t matter, but what was their intention? Like, why you, why did
Lexi: why did they, As I was saying, Like, I’ve never really I guess I can talk about the part where I did talk to the friend, So it would’ve been like April, 2016, she called me and she was just like, I don’t really know what happened that day. And, what I thought I was, gonna happen because, [00:55:00] and I basically asked her, I was was like, okay, did you know something was gonna happen? She told me.
Yeah. And that like it was her biggest mistake because he had lied to her. And And then I asked her what she thought the truth was. and she had said that from her understanding, I guess what he had told her was that he does like heroin out of the water bottle bong, or he smokes it.
Which like, none of that really came up in my system. but I guess he like told her that he smoked Like heroin out of the bong and that I probably got like some residue from it. And that was why what happened happened. And then I asked kind of like about like the being attacked And she said that wasn’t like really involved in that.
Like she was standing off to the side but she was the one that was like, yes, and then she told me that she wakes up screaming every night thinking about it. And it’s the most horrific thing that ever happened to her.
And at that time I remember being like, why didn’t you call me? And still to this day, like it is hard when retelling the story to remember how deep the betrayal was and how much like she tried to convince everyone that it wasn’t happening.
But yeah, I mean that’s essentially like what [00:56:00] happened,
Carling: My God, that’s just so
Lexi: scary
Carling: I think relatable in that. Like we’ve all been
13, 14, 15
and made some super questionable decisions. You know, It could happen
Lexi: it happen to anybody.
Yeah, I think that’s like kind of what what’s so important to me with sharing my story is especially as a victim of like having been abused as a child , and not really being super aware. I think like it’s important to talk about these things because my hope is like maybe someone would become aware of their own abuse because I’m talking about it
Carling: wow. Well, I’m so thankful that, again, that you like shared your story with me. I know that you’ve shared it on TikTok and
I think it’s, yeah, it’s such a scary story, but one that needs to be heard.
Lexi: Oh, thank you so much.
Carling: . I’m glad that you’re like in university doing track and
it sounds like you’re on a much
Lexi: much better path.
Yeah, life is definitely much better than it was a couple [00:57:00] years ago, which I’m
really
grateful for. Yeah.
Carling: Oh, that’s amazing. I’ll let you get on with your day, but thank you again so much. It was really great
Lexi: chatting with you. Yeah, thank you.
Carling: All right. Bye.
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