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Twitch star had to ‘hide with a gun’ during three year long stalker nightmare-Kenneth Andersen-Entertainment – Metro
Maya has told the harrowing story of the stalker who had her scared for her life: ‘I would literally hide in a dark room clutching a gun.’
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Maya could finally tell her fans about what’s she’s been going through (Picture: YouTube)
Maya has told the harrowing story of the stalker who had her scared for her life: ‘I would literally hide in a dark room clutching a gun.’
Streamers, like all celebrities, pay a price for constantly being in the public eye. This can result in all kinds of online abuse and even lead to stalkers invading their private life.
There have been lots of unfortunate examples of streamers with stalkers over the years, with one of the worst cases involving content creator Just Foxii, who had her car set on fire in her own driveway.
Maya, who has 800,000 followers on Twitch, recently told the harrowing story of her own stalker, of over three years, who threatened to kill her and left her hiding in a dark room with a gun.
‘I had a guy who thought we were in a full-on relationship for three years. It was one of those things where everything I say he thinks I’m talking to him,’ Maya told her fans during a recent stream.
She said she didn’t tell anyone because, ‘You can’t talk about it because it makes it worse. Now it’s not a problem, which is why I can talk about it. But for a while, it sucked.’
Maya revealed she spent large amounts of money on security and private investigators, at $65 (£52) an hour, and couldn’t stay in her own house for a month.
‘It was so bad, there were times I was at Alveus [her animal sanctuary] when he’d show me that he was coming here and I would hide with a gun. I would literally hide in a dark room clutching a gun. What the hell is my life?’
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Maya didn’t say what happened to her stalker, other than ‘now it’s not a problem’, but, unsurprisingly, it made her consider stop streaming altogether:
‘There’s a lot of things that have made me want to stop streaming, that is one of them, and if I didn’t have Alveus I promise you guys I would not be a streamer.’
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