{"id":638373,"date":"2010-01-22T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89975"},"modified":"2010-01-22T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:31:13","slug":"erika-lauren-wasilewski-%e2%80%9cthe-real-world-dc%e2%80%9d-contestant-faked-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/638373","title":{"rendered":"Erika Lauren Wasilewski, \u201cThe Real World: DC\u201d Contestant, Faked Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confessions from a Reality Show Drama Queen: One of <em>The Real World: DC<\/em> housemates  has admitted to faking cancer to get attention from a former boyfriend. Erika Lauren Wasilewski, a 22-year-old Illinois native and Columbia College graduate, pretended to be in a deadly battle against skin cancer to win back an ex flame.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Erika-Lauren-Faked-Cancer-500x433.jpg?resize=500%2C433\" alt=\"\" title=\"Erika Lauren Faked Cancer\" width=\"500\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-89976\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-89975\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The gossip first started when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shabooty.com\/2009\/07\/29\/erika-lauren-wasilewski-of-real-world-dcs-ex-boyfriend-confirms-fake-cancer-sob-story-shabooty-exclusive.php\">Shabooty.com<\/a> got the scoop about Erika&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;I was the boyfriend that broke up with her. She actually faked some sort of skin cancer for close to 9 months. Everybody in our hometown believed her&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Erika confirmed the allegations are true in a new interview with <em>TimeOut: \u201cUm, there is some truth to what you\u2019re hearing. Yes, it happened. Yes, I regret it. If I could take it back, I would. I was going through some severe emotional problems at the time. I was lashing out and craving attention wherever I could.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9zXCHk_JlzRRengJT-aY4Eteg6c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9zXCHk_JlzRRengJT-aY4Eteg6c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9zXCHk_JlzRRengJT-aY4Eteg6c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9zXCHk_JlzRRengJT-aY4Eteg6c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confessions from a Reality Show Drama Queen: One of The Real World: DC housemates has admitted to faking cancer to get attention from a former boyfriend. Erika Lauren Wasilewski, a 22-year-old Illinois native and Columbia College graduate, pretended to be in a deadly battle against skin cancer to win back an ex flame. The gossip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2G4l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}