Below is my experiences with him as it happened and my opinions. Draw your own conclusions.
I cant speak about what people wrote below for or against Josh Bredehoft. I never worked for him so I cant speak to those comments. What I can speak about is my own personal experiences with him. He was deceptive and told me one lie after another. Perhaps it was for attention or perhaps he did it just to see if he could. Despite all the red flags I believed him. Despite what everyone warned me about, I believed him. Despite the odds about what he said actually being potentially truthful, I believed him. I gave him the benefit of the doubt because I just never fathomed that any person could stoop so low. Needless to say I was wrong.
In 2007 I lost a very dear friend to suicide. My friend was bipolar and didnt get the help he needed. A few months after this happened Josh befriended me online. I was quite vulnerable from the situation with my late friend and sadly I was tricked into a big story about being Josh being very sick. For weeks he cried to me on the phone about not wanting to die. He told me he had gotten a movie role in which he had to lose a lot of weight. He then claimed he lost so much weight that he began feeling sick and then was told he was in kidney and renal failure. At many points in time I received text messages from his phone being told by his assistants he was in a coma and close to death. I sent more than three vases with flowers to his home in Glendale, California. Just trying do whatever I could to help him recover somehow. I even Western Uniond him money at one point believing his story about not having money for his medications because his bank accounts were hacked and frozen pending an investigation. Despite all these warning signs I still believed it. I was so saddened my the loss of my friend I kept thinking, If theres even a chance of this being true, I must do whatever I can to help him pull through. Like an idiot I kept on believing. I was so vulnerable and he knew it!
Believing Josh didnt have much time left, I flew out to California to visit him. I expected to see someone who was thin and ill from being in acute, kidney and renal failure. He didnt look thin at all. I expected to see a frail person. He picked me up from the airport and took me back to the hotel where he and his assistant, Paige, were staying at. The West Hollywood London Hotel.
I flew in on Friday night at 11:45pm and left very very early Sunday morning. Barely in the state of Calfornia for more thanone day. Saturday morning Im told by Josh that theres a problem with his credit card. He needs to go home and get a new one. As a total complete idiot, I used my credit card as a placeholder for the room while Josh went home to get his new credit card. I told the front desk manager that under no way was my card to be charged and that if Josh did not bring back a new card I was to be told immediately. Needless to say I wasnt notified by the hotel and Josh didnt bring back a new card (even though he told me more than twice that he did give the desk a new card) I flew home that Sunday morning to find a $5000 bill from the hotel on my credit card. I was charged for quite a few days before I even arrived!!! When I textd Josh and tried to call him, he said he had given them a new card and that it was the hotels fault. He promised me that the next day everything would be worked out. That next day I receive a text from his phone saying he was in a coma again and nothing could be done with the bank or the hotel (reversing charges) without him being physically present. Days and days go by and eventually I received text messages saying Josh had actually passed away. I was then told that I was to not to contact his phone number anymore by his assistants. I gave it a month or so and called one day from a different number and wouldnt you know, he answered!
Heres the bottom line. Josh and Paige stayed at the London West Hollywood for about a week in 2008. They ran up a $5000 bill and me, who was there for just a day, had to pay their entire bill. I was charged for the days they were there even before I arrived in California! Im now stuck paying their bill. The $5000 has grown with interest. The room was registered in Josh's name. He failed to pay me back and failed to call the hotel with a new credit card number (despite their numerous attempts to call him, he never returned their voicemails asking for a new card). I went out there because I thought he was dying not so I could get ripped off! I remember telling him how proud I was to finally pay off my credit card bills. And to think he stuck me with his hotel bill! That's just disgusting!
Im a first class idiot for believing Josh Bredehoft. Quite a learning lesson I tell you. I fell for a huge story about someone who was ill. Josh, I had people pray for you! People read out of their Bibles for you thinking you were actually ill. I cried for you because I felt you were legitimately sick. What upsets me is that there are people in this world who are actually sick and who are actually dying.
Every month now I make payments to pay his hotel bill and the Western Union bill. I reflect back on the many flowers I sent. I think back upon how many times I prayed so hard for his recovery. Many of those who prayed for him say I need to choke it up as a lesson that there are such people in this world who will take advantage of others and not everyone is good at heart. I write this as a way of getting peace. I really hope and pray that nobody else falls for his stories. I can't wait for the day I pay off that bill and can finally erase every reminder of him from my life and my memories.
In my opinion he needs a lot of help. I wanted to believe all my life that, despite everything, people are good at heart. Sadly I dont feel that way anymore. I wanted to believe that somewhere there was a residue of humanity and good will in him.in my opinion, hes just a skin of evil and a pathological liar who will stoop to any level for attention.
Please people. Dont make the mistake I did. Trust your gut and your instincts!
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