Netflix's newest scammer series Bad Vegan just just dropped earlier this week, and we're all just a little obsessed. Well, it looks like the drama isn't slowing down anytime soon either. Following the release of the four-part series, star of the show Sarma Melngailis, has spoken out against it, criticising the Netflix series for being "disturbingly misleading."
Bad Vegan tells the story of successful restauranteur Sarma Melngailis, the owner and founder of New York City's famed raw vegan hotspot Pure Food and Wine, which became a go-to celebrity location in the early noughties.
After meeting and marrying a man named Anthony Strangis, thing begin to go wrong for Sarma and she eventually swindles approximately $2m (about £1.4m) from employees and investors before going on the run with her allegedly abusive new husband.
Shortly after the documentary aired, Sarma - who appears in the series - wrote a length post on her website calling out the series for "inaccuracies" and calling the ending "disturbingly misleading."
Clarifying that the money she raised went towards reopening the restaurant and making payments, she wrote, "The idea that I would do all of that only to then run away with a man I hated and feared makes no sense. I didn’t want to marry him, and that part of the story was inaccurately condensed.
"Also, the ending of Bad Vegan is disturbingly misleading; I am not in touch with Anthony Strangis and I made those recordings at a much earlier time, deliberately, for a specific reason."
She says that while there's "a lot Bad Vegan gets right" there are also "things that aren't right or leave an inaccurate impression," adding, "later, I'd like to clear up more."
