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The Fault in Our Stars Helped This Woman Realize Her Wife Faked Cancer
The TikTok story has gone viral for the wildest of reasons.
The Fault In Our Stars, the 2014 film about two cancer patients falling in love, is undeniably a modern-day classic, but a shocking new story from a TikTok user proves that it inspired more than just a generation of Tumblr users.
In a new TikTok video, yayakampen has come forward with the story of an old flame who loved the book a little too much and it's gone viral, currently sitting at over 2.5 million views.
"Hi John, congrats on 11 years of Fault in Our Stars,” she begins, stitching author John Green's anniversary TikTok. “Your book actually completely changed my life, twice, and it’s the weirdest way possible. Let me tell you more about it.”
She goes on to share that she was once "married to someone who was dying of terminal bone cancer. She had only a few months left to live" and she saw how her partner could easily relate to the story when she finally watched the movie in 2014.
“As I’m watching the movie, I’m realizing that almost identical to the story plot is my wife’s life,” she recalls. "We hadn't known each other for very long because she was dying of cancer and I thought, ‘This is just too close.' So I went back, read your book, and even the phrases that you used, she would use on the daily.”
@yayakampen #stitch with @literallyjohngreen lol great story tho. really had me believing 💀 #faultinourstars #munchausensyndrome #factitiousdisorder
You might be thinking that perhaps Green was inspired by this specific woman to write the book, but no!
yayakampen tells Green that “it was your story that inspired her to fake terminal bone cancer, but it was also your movie from that story that gave me the first alarm bells to prove that she was lying to me about having terminal bone cancer.”
What?
“Don't worry, she's still alive and well today but I guess, thank you?” she concludes, and “Congrats!”
The story has left folks mouths agape, especially when it migrated over to Twitter.
\u201c@MediumSizeMeech girl at the cinema\u201d— Meech (@Meech) 1673475434
Let's leave the fiction on the page and movie screens people!
Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!
Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!
