Basically, SoFail visited Marvel sets a few times while BC was working and behaved so badly that some of BC’s peeps complained…a lot. The leaks are a hoot, enjoy:
Good Christ. My mother used to behave like this, just not in public. I realized she was crazy when I was eight. I had been in school, and there was some display on the wall of everyone’s work, I think it was drawing, and a visiting stranger complimented my work. Since I was constantly being degraded at home, this was very exciting for me. When I went home I told her my story. She said nothing, just put on her jacket and left. This was weird, as she is the laziest person on earth and never left the house without a reason, never went for walks. She came back two hours later, having made the rounds of all the sales clerks she talks at, who are trapped at their register/job and have to be polite to her (it’s a small town, not a lot of customers to distract them from her/enable their escape). She was excited, glowing, and told me a story that made no fucking sense given her circumstances, that was just a rehash of mine, one where she got the compliment. Tears in my eyes, because I had stupidly thought she might be proud of me, I said, “That’s what happened to me today.” She barked at me, enraged, and tears in HER eyes, “It did NOT!” and she stormed off, because my reality was interrupting her fantasy.
Narcissists really believe the bullshit they make up. They are empty people, devoid of a real inner life, so they steal from/make up stories about who they ‘really’ are, because they have to be the most important person in the room, they need to absorb all of the attention. Heaven forfend that you might be funnier, prettier, smarter, more charismatic, admired. She will hate you to death and go after you in any underhanded way she can think of.
Sophie hates Benedict because he has all of the talent and admiration, he does all of the hard work (she would be utterly incapable of sustained hard work), and she wants all if that
admiration for herself. She can’t earn it, she’s an empty shell. Narcs have very little self control. My mother can keep her temper for six to eight hours, then she starts to explode. Sophie sounds like her interval is even shorter. Although I know one narc who is always calm and serene around the ‘important’ people she’s lying to. She manages this by surrounding herself with admiring sycophants (I don’t understand a single one of them). She’s very important in a tiny pond. She went after people I care about to drive me off (I was competition).
I can’t even imagine how crazy a red carpet or working set would make Sophie, where everyone there (except herself) has competence. She has to make up stories so she can feel superior, but even as delusional as they are narcissists can experience cognitive dissonance.
Remember, we have one of these in the White House.
Boy can I relate to that story. I had a coworker who ran off all her “competition” except for my hubby and me. She tried to get me fired for 5 years (with no success) and had her similarly narc husband threaten mine in the men’s room at a company event. She tried to take credit for everything anyone else did. She was so horrible that she drove our national manager to suicide, after she created a situation that ended up losing him his job.
