ANTM star and model blogs domestic violence

onlyconnect — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:19:13 -0800

Elyse Sewell blogs domestic abuse in her Livejournal . Previously. Think you had a shitty weekend? Nah. Why not compare it to mine? . . . On the drive home (home?) from Albuquerque to Portland, my ex-boyfriend got sh*tfaced and roughed me up in a Sacramento hotel. I escaped from the room through a blitzkrieg of violence and talked to hotel security, who called the fuzz. Frankly I'm not even sure I should be posting this but in her journal comments Elyse has said that she understands she has posted to a public forum and doesn't want to be able to pretend it didn't happen. Over the weekend Elyse's now-ex-boyfriend, Marty Crandall of The Shins, was arrested for domestic violence against Elyse in a hotel room; his time in jail can be followed here (enter the name Martin Crandall). Elyse was arrested as well (her journal notes that she bit him in self defense and he demanded her arrest) but her parents posted bail. Her livejournal entry recounts the incident in her normal dry, mordant style, noting that her jailers recognized her from America's Next Top Model. There are a few press reports, too, mostly citing to the livejournal site. Is there a clear downside for Elyse in livejournaling this, as long as everything she says in her comments is true? My first instinct (and other commenters as well) was to suggest she take the post down in case it was used as evidence, but on the other hand as long as it is true could it actually hurt her in court?

NOT still in the running to become America's Next Top Model

onlyconnect — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:04:10 -0800

Elyse Sewell (some language NSFW), the nerdy, smart-mouthed, pre-med athiest who lost the first season of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model ("ANTM") to Adrianne Curry, has since arguably achieved more success as a model than any actual ANTM winner. Her blog is the only internet site I'm aware of that provides mordant commentary on very strange modeling jobs , odd local food variants, ANTM, dating a Shin (bus, SNL, Christmas, album, tour), and the heretofore sadly underexplored existentialist moments of modeling. (ANTM previously.)

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ANTM star and model blogs domestic violence

NOT still in the running to become America's Next Top Model