Trashley: Forty-Three

Psych! USA

After Ashley threatened to send copies of my pictures to the man who had assaulted me, I got on the horn with power lawyer Lisa Bloom, who I’d gotten to know from testifying as a #MeToo witness in a few of her trials. Lisa wasn’t my lawyer then, but she sure as hell showed up for me, taking my call on a Saturday morning while all the other lawyers were off the grid and on the golf course.

Lisa advised me to write Ashley a gentle note stating that it would be incredibly hurtful if she did anything with my photos and that I did not consent to her sharing them.

And if that approach didn’t work, my next plan would be to lawyer up and go after her so aggressively that Ashley and her entire family would be begging the FBI to place them in the witness protection program and relocate them to Buffalo, the Bakersfield of New York.

I texted Ashley’s parents to make sure they were aware their daughter was playing with fire and desperately needed help. I used all the right buzzwords– Gun. Knives. Suicide. Police. Revenge porn. Lawyers. And they didn’t respond, they just left me on read.