Episode 1 of the Scamanda docuseries ended with the last word bombshell — the reveal of the one that tipped off Nancy Moscatiello to Amanda Riley’s pretend most cancers rip-off. On the 2023 Scamanda podcast, the whistleblower selected to remain nameless, however she’s now come ahead together with her identification.
Amanda’s former buddy Lisa Berry confirmed on the finish of the Thursday, January 30, episode that she was the one who contacted Moscatiello together with her suspicions about Amanda, which in the end led the investigative producer to look into the state of affairs. Years later, in 2020, Amanda was charged with wire fraud based mostly on the greater than $100,000 in on-line donations she accepted from individuals who thought they have been contributing to her medical care. In actuality, she wasn’t sick in any respect.
“My title is Lisa Berry, and I’m the nameless supply,” Lisa mentioned. “It’s time. I’m pleased with it. I’m proud I’m the nameless supply.”
As Amanda continues to finish her five-year jail sentence, scroll right down to be taught extra about Berry and the way she was related to the scammer.
How did Lisa Berry know Amanda Riley?
Lisa and her husband Steve Berry’s daughter went to highschool with Amanda’s stepdaughter, Jessa. Amanda’s then-husband, Cory Riley (who filed for divorce in January 2024), is Jessa’s father. Since Jessa and the Berrys’ daughter grew to become pals, Amanda and Cory frolicked with Lisa and Steve.
Lisa had suspicions about Amanda from the second she was informed about her alleged most cancers prognosis. Amanda informed her she was battling the illness simply in the future after Lisa talked about a fundraiser for a neighborhood member who had been recognized with mind most cancers.
“The very subsequent morning, she referred to as me to inform me that she had most cancers, too, and it simply blew me away,” Lisa mentioned on the Scamanda podcast. “I used to be stunned. Why didn’t she inform me earlier than? … [She said] she’d been preventing it for some time. She’s been on chemotherapy therapy and didn’t assume she was going to have youngsters. And, actually, inside two days, I’m selecting up Jessa for varsity as a result of Amanda was ‘too sick’ from chemotherapy.”
What occurred between Lisa Berry and Amanda Riley?
Within the Scamanda docuseries, Lisa revealed that she and her husband ended their relationship with the Rileys by 2015 (Amanda began her most cancers weblog Lymphoma Can Suck It in 2012). Lisa mentioned she was bothered by the content material she was seeing Amanda publish on-line. She was instantly suspicious concerning the validity of the most cancers prognosis as a result of Amanda first informed her concerning the sickness in 2010, however the weblog didn’t exist till two years later.
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Lisa additionally admitted to giving Amanda cash for blood checks that she claimed she wanted to save lots of her life. The whistleblower beforehand spoke about this at Amanda’s trial, telling the courtroom, “We gave her the wanted cash. Inside a pair days, she posted glamorous images of herself taken by an expert photographer. I grew to become suspicious that the cash I had given her was used to pay for this photograph shoot.”
Nonetheless, Lisa’s suspicions reached an all-time excessive after Amanda and Jessa got here to her home to swim following one in every of Amanda’s hospital visits, the place she claimed to have had fluid drained from her mind. Since Amanda was swimming underwater at her residence, Lisa was skeptical that she truly had that sort of process performed.
“I knew that wasn’t proper and I begin going via my thoughts and occupied with all of the tales she informed me,” Lisa revealed. A few of these tall tales that Lisa “dismissed” earlier than realizing that Amanda was a “liar” included Amanda’s claims that she was engaged on a PhD in scientific psychology and that her marriage ceremony was going to look in a bridal journal.
Lisa mentioned that she began ghosting Amanda at this level, however her former buddy seemed to be stopping at nothing to get in contact together with her. She even informed Lisa’s niece that she needed Lisa and Steve to be her second youngster’s godparents. When Lisa lastly picked up one in every of Amanda’s calls in the course of the being pregnant, Amanda informed her, “The being pregnant is reversing the illness. The being pregnant is reversing the most cancers.” Lisa, fully baffled by the claims, has not spoken to Amanda since.
Who’s Lisa Berry?
Lisa graduated from San Jose State College and labored as a enterprise administrator for a number of years. She is from Los Gatos, California, and now lives in San Jose, in line with Fb. Lisa is married to Steve and have one daughter, Eleanor, collectively.
In 2014, Lisa grew to become concerned together with her church and has remained devoted to the church and Catholicism through the years. She has been a member of 5 Wounds Portuguese Nationwide Parish since 2017 and helps out with internet hosting occasions and organizing conferences there. She met the president of Portugal at a church occasion in 2022.