In a TikTok on Tuesday, Meredith Hayden — the chef and influencer known as Wishbone Kitchen — said she was roofied and kidnapped at a Hollywood party four years ago. She shared the story after another user made a TikTok, which has since been deleted, that purportedly criticized Hayden for talking about feeling anxious before a trip to Japan last month. In her video on Tuesday, Hayden explained why she’d been struggling before the trip. “The reason why I was crying and anxious about flying across the globe is because four years ago, I was roofied at a Hollywood premiere party in a very luxurious setting where I thought I was safe and I thought I could trust the people around me,” she said. Hayden said she “started to feel weird” and left the party, at which point “someone pushed me into their car and kidnapped me for, like, a few hours.”
Hayden did not identify the alleged attacker and said she hadn’t opened up about the incident sooner because it happened “right as I started getting a following on TikTok.” “I was like, well, I don’t want to be … the roofie kidnap girl,” she said. She added that she didn’t report it to police afterward, because a few months earlier she’d been robbed on the street, and police apparently told her there was “nothing they could do,” an experience she described as “the most humiliating, frustrating, and unproductive two hours of my life.”
“So, no, I didn’t report it to the police,” she said. “I put my big-girl pants on, and I shoved the feelings down for as long as I could. So, yeah, I still get anxious leaving my house, and I probably will forever.” After the incident, Hayden said she was diagnosed with “PTSD, anxiety, depression, and a pinch of agoraphobia.”
“This is not the way I wanted this to come out, my roofie survival story,” Hayden said. “But if the shoe fits. You’ve forced my hand.” She also slammed the person who posted the video for apparently using the phrase “gun to your head,” which she called “very triggering as a victim of kidnapping.” “Think twice before you assassinate someone’s character for voicing anxiety on the internet,” she concluded.
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