Vanessa Dimitropoulos: Reactive Abuse, a Staged Arrest, and Fighting Back

Vanessa Dimitropoulos spent eleven years as a working actress, with roles in The Walking Dead and The Big Short. Then a relationship with a man studying to be a therapist unraveled her life, and taught her how psychological abuse works when almost no one can see it. In this conversation with Lisa, Vanessa describes how her openness got used against her, how the groundwork for a false allegation gets laid in advance, and what reactive abuse looks like from the inside. She's candid about the fa...