Thread by @MJJRepository

THREAD: The parallels between Wade Robson and Tania Head, who faked her way to the top ranks in 9/11 survivor groups and spent years mascaraing as a direct survivor of the terrorist attacks.

Here she attends 9/11 ceremony. "It's one of the hardest experiences in my life..."

Tania was interviewed at-length by a crew long before she was revealed a fraud. She described in graphic & sensory-vivid detail of the attack and how she survived.

The director later said: "I had NO IDEA she was anything but an authentic survivor--almost all of us believed her."

Many 9/11 survivors were interviewed about their interactions with Tania through various support groups, including ones she helped establish and presided over.

They found her incredible story to be "head and shoulders" above their own and looked up to her with utmost adoration.

Survivors saw Tania and her many media stories as an "energetic booster" for the needs of the survivor community.

"Her story fit into that all-encompassing - a survivor, and a hero, and a widow, and everything that 9/11 came to represent on that day. Her story was incredible."

As part of Tonia's "intensive therapy" she engaged in flooding exercises that involved reliving her "trauma" over-and-over.

Tonia would cry harder & harder to friend (a legitimate 9/11 survivor) about her "experience." Her friend began having horrific nightmares it was so vivid.

A few survivors began having suspicions but due to Tonia's power+influence over fellow survivors & the taboo nature of doubting such stories, they didn't want to raise these concerns publicly.

One survivor researched the ties to her supposed husband, no such connection existed.

Tania had so much influence that when she sensed the founder of WTC Survivor's Network might find the truth, she managed to convince fellow members that HE was a bad influence in the group and eventually had him voted off the board; the next day Tania was listed as the president.

When NYT began doing a story about Tania for the 6th anniversary, she became evasive. Tania told her survivor friends the media was bothering her by asking questions.

Tania begged her friends to tell the reporters to stop harassing her due to all the trauma she'd been through.

The survivors became so wound up by Tania's abnormal behavior (crying, running away, obsessing over the reporter's questions) they were unable to focus on the 9/11 anniversary. Some thought "what horrible people" the reporters were. Others begged her for evidence to shut them up.

After the story was published, Tania Head was finally, for the first time, publicly outed as a fraud.

"A story of tragedy and heroism, survival and love...this story repeated many times in the past six years may be a complete fabrication."

"If Tonia can lie, anybody can lie."

The 9/11 survivors confided in a false victim to guide them in their healing. The aftermath of learning she was a fraud was profound & devastating.

"There's nothing that she could ever say to me today that will ever change the pain, anger, hatred.. What she did to the families."

"She probably did her research on us. She was probably just watching us and trying to see what we were talking about & how we felt. She adopted the personality. She knew how survivors felt after going through something like that & she became one of us." -9/11 Survivor on Tonia.

In summary, it took Tonia's survivor friends & the media over 1/2 decade to publicly investigate a readily disprovable false victim, due to the stigma of doubting a self-described victim.

"It would had been cruel for any one of us to question her."

"Nobody ever questioned it."

The original story that exposed many of the problems with 9/11 faker Tonia Head's claims is nytimes.com/2007/09/27/nyr…

The clips in this thread come from "The Woman Who Wasn't There" a book/film that interviews many 9/11 survivors and Tonia when examining her fraudulent claims.