CHAPTER 12

OK, I am going to back up a little, because some people have asked me for more info about my 'mysterious friend'. First of all, I am not going to say too much more, because she was a dear friend, who helped me so much... to get thru some difficult times. Without her kind words and understanding, I would have given up many times. So even though our communication has ended and some distressing things occurred, I do not want to hurt her, and I mean her no ill will. They are still many unanswered questions surrounding her and the emails she sent me, and I hope to solve the mystery someday. So if you are frustrated about this part of my story, believe me, I feel the same way. Not having answers is one of the most frustrating things in life for me.

My first private contact with my friend was at the end of 2005, right after she became a member of my original forum, "The Josh Groban Uncensored Corner Pub". It was during the time of the first "media crisis" in December 2005, just after WB's consultant company "GrayZone" had contacted me and told me to take down my Josh media. Right after the consultant told me in an email that they were "turning it back over to WB legal", I got an email from my friend, telling me how to go forward from there. She sounded like she was in a panic, and very worried about me, and it freaked me out. I asked her who she was, but she wouldn't tell me, but that "someone" had given her "permission" to contact me and help me. I never found out who that "someone" was, and really don't even have a guess as to their identity. Over the entire next year, I talked to my friend in emails, and she never revealed her last name, where she lived, or what she did for a living. She did tell me her first name and went into quite some detail about personal issues in her life, and we had many conversations about life in general. We helped each other deal with difficult times in our lives. And of course we discussed Josh a lot, because he was a 'common interest'. We also talked about the music industry, and it appeared that she had special knowledge of the dealings within the music industry, often stating she had friends she talked to about various issues. She talked often about two men in her life, and one was a very close friend, perhaps the one who "gave her permission" to talk to me, but I am not sure of that. I did however, get the impression at times that I was talking to two different people in the emails I got from her, and I was often confused and baffled about things she said... and I still am. One of the last emails I got from her was actually not from her, but from someone claiming to be her friend, relaying a message to me from her. So there were two people using that one email address. Now I will clarify something that I didn't explain in the last chapter: yes, the woman in the photograph, who I saw after Josh's concert in March was the same person I was talking to all that time in the emails. So of course it was upsetting to realize that fact, since that night she acted like she didn't know me, and didn't want to talk to me. Why she did that, I don't know for sure, but since I now know more about her, I believe it was certainly not to be cruel to me in any way, but rather that someone may have asked her to stop talking to me. Or they may have asked her to tell me the truth as to who she was, rather than letting me continue on being frustrated about her continued promises to me to tell me who she was. She appears to have decided that it was the best to stop talking to me, rather than reveal her identity. Anyway, although our detailed conversations stopped by the beginning of 2007, I heard from her now and then. Of course, I was very upset, not knowing why she stopped wanting to talk to me, and I had no answers. Although I know more now, it is still frustrating for me to think about, and one of the most upsetting things is that there is an indication that some of my private emails to her have been read by other people.

OK, that's enough about my friend, and I do wish her the best in life, and I am not angry with her.... just very saddened that everything played out the way it did.

By the way, there is also an indication that emails I sent to Jack Groban were also read by others, including Josh's management. "Thanks" Jack Groban for sending on my private emails to people they were not intended for. There is nothing like having your trust betrayed..... (Over a time span of about a year and a half, I got nine emails from Jack Groban. He was always very kind-- a very nice man!)

Now back to the year 2007......

In the summer of 2007, Josh went on a vacation with his family to a place where his parents own a vacation home. Josh met several fans in a town near that home, and two of them posted their experiences in blogs on the internet. They both mentioned the general location in the state where they were---not the town name or the specific address, but just the general location. Well, someone on Josh's boards found those blogs, and I saw the posts about them and copied them here, as I usually do with any news about Josh. One of the blogs was posted on Josh's IMDB board. Not long after I posted the blog here, I got an email from GrayZone, INC. the consulting company for WB and Josh's management, asking me to remove the location of Josh's parent's vacation home. The email said that "Josh's management" had requested the removal, referrring to a "she", so it was probably Lynne Malone. This infuriated me, because Lynne could have sent me an email herself about removing the location. I did comply with the GrayZone request and immediately removed the infornation, even though I was very angry about the way Lynne went about the request-- it appeared to me to be a very ridiculous way to make such a simple request. She took extra time to contact GrayZone about it, instead of spending a few minutes sending an email herself. What further infuriated me is that I kept watching the IMDB board, where I had copied the post from, and the post was never removed from there. So it became more and more obvious to me that Josh's management didn't really give a damn about the general location of the home being revealed-- it was just another way to harrass me using GrayZone. And besides, it wasn't like the actual address of the home was revealed--it was just a general location. I would never post addresses of Josh's family members here. To see the thread discussing this incident: Thread LINK

Not long after this happened, a fan sent me a goofy photo of Josh, of him going crosseyed, and I posted it here. I was also sent the link to Lynne Malone's MySpace page, which, when I visited it, was a PUBLIC MySpace page. Lynne Malone sent me an email asking me to remove the photo of cross-eyed Josh, because it was a "personal photo" that someone got from her MySpace page. I refused, partly because I was ticked off at her for her (and Josh's management in general) horrible treatment of me in the past. And I also thought the request was absolutely riduculous, because it was a photo she put on the internet, and because that photo was in no way harming or endangering Josh Groban. If it was a "private" photo, she shouldn't have uploaded it onto the internet on her public page. And I was getting really tired of Josh's "people" watching my forum and harrassing me about stupid crap. I felt this was just another attempt to bully me and "get me" for something I did here in the Pub.

Anyway, one of the things that really bothered me about Lynne's MySpace page was that she named herself "stalinmalone". I was horrified that a professional in Josh's management team would name themselves after one of the most evil people in the history of the world, who was directly responsible for the murder of millions of people. And I stated that here in the Pub. People countered that it was a "joke", but I didn't find it funny at all, especially considering how she had treated me and other fans in the past. Well, right after I posted how horrified I was that Lynne had named her MySpace URL that, Lynne deleted her MySpace page!! I then posted that she was trying to "cover her ass" by doing that, because that is how I viewed it! Yes, she has the right to call herself whatever she likes on MySpace, but I also have the right to state my dislike of it.

I suppose all this ticked Lynne off, especially since she had no moderator powers here, to delete anything she didn't like, said by one of Josh's fans. What happened next was interesting: someone signed up here as SEVEN(SpecialServices) and posted the following threatening BS to me:

First of all let me preface all I'm about to say by giving Louise some info about myself. I've worked in the entertainment business for over 20 years and have seen so much of this kind of stupidity that it would make your head spin. I've worked in several areas of the entertainment field ranging from personal assistant to head of security (for more than one celebrity). And, I can safely say that you are the absolute worst kind of fan there is. A nightmare to the very people you choose to worship, adore, admire and devote your time to. Generally fans are appreciated by their subject of devotion but fanatics are not. When someone like you devotes as much time to bashing and harassing the people that keep your subject safe and well taken care of you become a threat. From what I've read here today, you are in fact someone to keep an eye on. You mention in a post about Lynne Malone's myspace and if someone could please copy the page because she is trying to "Cover her ass"...
All of these overly dramatic cries for help are just another symptom of fanaticism and draw more attention to the fact that you are a potential threat.

Soon, and I know this because I've had to assist clients/friends in the past, the FBI will receive all the correspondence, including all these posts, and you will go on record as a stalker/threat. None of which will be the fault of anyone but... well, you. I've worked with a lot of managers, good and bad. You should be kissing the ground Lynne Malone walks on knowing that she has Joshs best interest in mind. Instead you're just a jealous fan with nothing better to do than waste your days and nights writing about someone you don't even like. I can't think of a less productive way to spend a day. By the way, I just have to add that with all the message boards, fan-sites I have had to navigate this one is by far the least friendly.

Kiss the ground Lynne walks on? You've got to be fricking kidding me. Treating Josh's fans like crap is not putting "Josh's best interests in mind". It is actually hurting his fan base relations, which should be nurtured to help his career and reputation. Also, this post horrified me because I had done nothing whatsoever to deserve being put on a "threat list", and in fact, the person who was actually doing all the "stalking" was Lynne Malone! She was obviously constantly reading here at the Pub, trying to find anything she could to "get me" and cause me grief.

Next chapter: Lynne posts here in the Pub and her friend Sue Witkin comes along after her, slinging vulgarity and insults.....