A bizarre scandal rocked Lakers Nation this week.
It all began when podcaster Vivian Flores, who supposedly “went missing” on Monday, was located a mere several hours after her alleged disappearance.
The person who broke the news about her so-called vanishing initially was her podcast co-host Josh Toussaint.
After many fans and some celebrities came out in support of locating Vivian, Toussaint claimed she was found.
That’s where things got weird.
As people began digging more and more into the situation, some social media users started claiming that a man was running Vivian’s Twitter account. The main reason for why this became a prevailing theory is because several folks suggested they didn’t believe Vivian’s voice matched her face. Others noted that her photos were bad photoshops of Lakers games.
Things took an even stranger turn when a Twitter user named ItsKingsBruh revealed during a Twitter Spaces session which included Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant that he was involved with Vivian in some capacity in the past, and cut the relationship off when he realized he was being catfished.
KD was disgusted. pic.twitter.com/iWmnhjGRqC
— Brandon (@GPHatesThisApp) April 20, 2021
At that point, additional folks started pointing out the weirdness associated with Vivian’s account.
New development: Vivian used to go by the name of Kelly (@lil_butterfly88) and was knee deep in Raiders Twitter. This shit is insane. pic.twitter.com/9LU5uQrw7y
— K. (@ThatPersianGuy) April 20, 2021
KingsBruh got catfished by a man for over 2 months.. when he tried to cut her off she pretended to go missing and people started feeling digger and there is no way the acc isn’t run by a man pic.twitter.com/lEHQYJYphC
— ً (@DAPERKYSCALLING) April 20, 2021
i’m crying no way she was getting away with this pic.twitter.com/hxl1lW6x9c
— dev (@ssodev) April 20, 2021
Photoshopping yourself hooping overseas should be punishable by law. LMFAO
This is SICK pic.twitter.com/Dz4c4Pk91P
— Bus, the Art Guy (@BillionBus) April 20, 2021
Very bad photoshop pic.twitter.com/8iSTSztV2O
— Mr. Touch your balls/SWIPA (@Mrtouchurballs) April 20, 2021
Toussaint then came out and offered his side of the story.
Still haven’t gotten a goddamn explanation. Thought I trusted someone and learned my lesson. Tried to help a friend I thought was in peril. I was duped like yall and feel bad I was a pawn. Such garbage. Logging off for awhile. Stay safe out there. You never know
— Josh Toussaint (@josh2saint) April 20, 2021
— Waleed Khan (@Wwaleeed5) April 20, 2021
— Josh Toussaint (@josh2saint) April 20, 2021
– Her excuse for not doing videocalls was because of her “self esteem”
– We’ve talked on the phone several times
– I do my pods on the Anchor app in the “Record with Friends” function, so I would send her the links. This one day she kept saying she was delayed bc crying nephew https://t.co/RCP60mmzUU pic.twitter.com/8VLjd9s4At— Josh Toussaint (@josh2saint) April 20, 2021
And then Vivian came out with hers:
There have been a number of weird and disturbing basketball-related stories over the past few weeks. A former Laker allegedly beat up his girlfriend on camera and then showed no remorse for it. Durant went on a homophobic rant about a random actor for no clear reason.
But this one really takes the cake when it comes to bizarreness.
Will the truth about Vivian ever come out? Time will tell.
Yikes. https://t.co/EcjPag0S7v
— Game 7 (@game7__) April 19, 2021
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A graduate from the University of Texas, Anthony Amador has been credentialed to cover the Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys, San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks and high school games all over the Lone Star State. Currently, his primary beats are the NBA, MLB, NFL and UFC.
