Netflix has dropped the latest true crime documentary and it's being called way worse than The Tinder Swindler. You can watch the trailer below:
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives follows vegan celebrity chef Sarma Melngailis and her relationship with her now ex-husband Anthony Strangis, who she knew as Shane Fox.
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This is the story of how one woman was so gullible that she let a man she met on Twitter convince her to take US $2 million (£1.5m) from her own vegan restaurant in Manhattan because he claimed he could make her dog immortal.
Yes, you read that correctly. Because he could make her dog immortal.
Sarma married this bloke and her life quickly started veering quite violently off the rails.
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In the end, the high-profile chef, who used to hang with the likes of Bill Clinton and Alec Baldwin, found herself in a courtroom pleading guilty to grand larceny, criminal tax fraud and a scheme to defraud in 2017. Yikes.
The documentary dropped on Netflix this week and people are well and truly blown away by what happened to Sarma.
The bulk of the series is an interview with the celebrity chef herself, but also includes sit-downs with family members, staff, friends and investors who were powerless to do anything as the whole catastrophic mess unfolded in front of them.
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Director Chris Smith told Variety he was keen to do turn the story into a documentary as he found the whole thing so unbelievable.
He said: "It was just inconceivable how Sarma had gone from this celebrity vegan chef to being arrested in a motel room in Tennessee.
"I thought if we can help the audience understand how she went from point A to point B that in and of itself would be a feat."
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Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives is just the latest of a quick succession of true crime stories on Netflix.
As well as The Tinder Swindler, audiences have also devoured Inventing Anna.
Smith has a theory as to why audiences are loving the chaotic mess that is true crime.
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He said: "They are stories that are intriguing on a human level that we’re curious as to how these things come to be and how they unfold.
"How does somebody become involved in creating a con, and how does somebody end up falling prey to one?"
Viewers can now come to their own conclusion, with all four parts of Bad Vegan now on Netflix.
Oh, and no word on if the dog became immortal. Who would have thought?
Topics: Netflix, TV and Film, True Crime, Weird
Rachel Lang