“Former Porn Star Diamond Story” – another Shelley Lubben-affiliated performer speaks…

December 17, 2011 by
Filed under: Advice, News, Opinion Piece, Sex Worker Rights, Uncategorized 

I woke up yesterday morning to an email from Kristenye, wanting to talk about her experience with Shelley Lubben and Pink Cross Foundation. We spoke for a long time, and she expressed herself sincerely and carefully. She is yet another person who feels it should be known that Shelley Lubben is not the person she portrays herself to be. I’m happy to share her story, for Kristenye’s sake and the sake of people who would be better off going a different route for help, but I won’t lie. I get no pleasure from accounts that prove Shelley Lubben is a predator and liar. I am saddened by the details and saddened that yet another person has to pick up the pieces of their life after having known Shelley Lubben.

Kristenye contacted me knowing nothing about my site or Michael Whiteacre’s work. She was referred to me by an acquaintance and says she has not been following anything about Shelley Lubben for some time, though she admits that she did reach out recently with another request for help. She asked for help in the form of clothing because she doesn’t own much conservative attire. An assistant named Melanie responded saying that she would “look into it”, but no other response has followed.

With Kristenye’s permission and Michael Whiteacre’s help, Michael was able to verify her identity and conduct his own conversation confirming her accounts and adding to the accumulated detail. I am going to recount Kristenye’s story as best I can, covering as much detail as possible from mine and Michael’s interactions with her, and adding commentary only where it seems appropriate.

 

Kristenye (formerly known as “Diamond”), is a woman who, in late 2007, was dancing, doing webcam work, and had performed in a handful of amateur videos centered in Virginia. Though she had never been to Los Angeles to film adult product, and says that she was in no way identifiable as a sex worker, her few videos caught the attention of Shelley Lubben. Shelley found and contacted her through Kristenye’s MySpace page, explaining that she was a Christian ex-porn star starting an organization to help porn stars leave the adult industry. She says Shelley asked her if she would like to be part of The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet–a syndicated talk show dedicated to interviews–in a segment entitled “Teens That Live Double Lives”. Kristenye agreed. Being from the South, and trusting that Shelley was sincere about her Christianity, Kristenye says that she and Shelley Lubben bonded very quickly despite a warning from a woman at a different Christian-based organization designed to help women exit the industry. This woman warned Kristenye that Shelley was self-determined and vindictive; that she’d do whatever she had to do get her way, but Kristenye felt a loyalty to Shelley and ignored this woman’s warnings. Kristenye also says that the help she expected from Pink Cross Foundation, she thought would come in the form of gift cards for clothes, gas and food; practical things that would help her find work away from the sex industry–the main thing she was being encouraged to do. In no way did she expect brand new clothes or anything extravagant, just basic helpful things.

Kristenye agreed to be on the show, but after arriving in New York, she explained to Shelley that she did not want to expose too much detail about her life because her mother would be watching. Lubben’s response was that if she didn’t share everything, they had no use for her. Additionally, Shelley told her that if she participated in the show, Shelley would help her with gift cards and financial assistance. Not only that, but according to Kristenye, the show’s producers only wanted Kristenye; not Shelley Lubben. They didn’t want to have to pay for two plane tickets, but Shelley explained to the producers that Kristenye was “too nervous to go on alone.” She recalls Shelley mentioning the spot as “a free trip” and that they would receive “appearance fees” to be on the show. Kristenye says that she was not too nervous to appear on the show alone, and stated it as if Shelley Lubben had never actually asked her about her comfort level.

Kristenye and Shelley Lubben spent that previous evening before their show appearance in New York at Hotel Mela in Times Square on December 3, 2007.

Kristenye says that Shelley met with her in her room and was very personable and motherly. She says that Shelley wanted to go over Kristenye’s story with her and coached Kristenye to “go overboard” with the details: about her sex with men, how much money she made, how bad the conditions were for the work she was doing. Shelley also coached Kristenye to mention that Pink Cross Foundation was helping her through donations. They talked about Pink Cross Foundation goals and Shelley’s intention to make a documentary series. Shelley told her she wanted Kristenye to write her “testimony”, and says this was also the point at which they discussed Kristenye’s concerns about revealing too much about her personal life on the show. She says Shelley assured her that if her mother cut her off “it didn’t matter” because Shelley would take care of her.

Afterwards they went to a bar, where Shelley started drinking and cursing. Kristenye said she saw Shelley’s other side, at that point.

Kristenye was very candid and charming, with her Southern accent and affable demeanor. We talked for some time and she explained that Lubben plays her part very well. Not only can she read a female and insert herself warmly as a mother figure, she says that in private Shelley curses a lot, but that in public she can switch on and be clean and professional. She says that Shelley was drinking and cursing at the bar that night. This only matters because Shelley claims Christianity, and by Christian standards, vulgar talk and behavior is deplorable. It’s sinning, basically. You can’t claim to represent God and then just do whatever you feel like doing, because you’d be setting an example against basic Christian beliefs. Not only that but Shelley claims to have quit drinking over ten years ago, yet Kristenye and Michelle Avanti both attest to witnessing her drink alcohol within that “sober” period. In our conversation I told Kristenye that Shelley went to a karaoke bar and bidded one thousand dollars on a date with Ron Jeremy, wore a very tiny dress, had Ron Jeremy sign her boob, and then danced like a stripper and kept having to pull up her dress up because her boobs were always on the verge of falling out. All well-documented footage that paints a different picture than the one you see when Shelley is speaking in front of a church congregation. Christians who adhere to Christian ideals don’t behave in this way, and Shelley would have to know this or else she would address the many concerns that her behavior is very un-Christ-like and inappropriate for a mother/wife/Woman of Faith. (Watch a Christian’s plea to stop donating to Shelley’s foundation here.) The fact is, Shelley Lubben addresses nothing, and it make s her all the more suspect.

After Kristenye appeared on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet; after writing her testimony (which Shelley sent back to Kristenye, telling her to rewrite it with more detail added to certain parts of her story); after interviewing for Citizens Magazine, Kristenye says that she didn’t receive anything from Shelley or Pink Cross Foundation. No donations, no gift cards, no Bibles, no clothing for her daughter; things that people had reached out and told Kristenye were coming to her through Pink Cross Foundation by their personal efforts. She added that despite that, she and Shelley were close until Shelley asked Kristenye if she would fly from her home in Virginia to attend the 2010 “AVN Porn Convention” and speak out to other porn stars about getting out of the adult industry. Kristenye declined because she was not in a position to leave her young daughter at home. After that, Kristenye says Shelley was angered at her for declining and that communication stopped altogether. Kristenye says Shelley cited stress and “medical problems” for her withdrawal from Kristenye’s life, until altogether leaving correspondence to her assistant–which didn’t set well with Kristenye because her bond was with Shelley, not Shelley’s assistant.

Kristenye relays things I’ve heard from other people affiliated with Pink Cross Foundation. That help was promised and not given. That people donated gifts cards and clothes–specifically for Kristenye and her daughter–but that Kristenye saw none of it. She says that in place of items that would benefit her actually rebuilding her life, she receives “once or twice a year” a box full of “dollar store” items.

I, myself, received a box of Pink Cross items in December 2009, and Kristenye was able to confirm to me that she recived the same kinds of gifts. A cheap pink bracelet, a sample of perfume, a black T-shirt with “Ex-Porn Star” in bold pink lettering, a Bible, glittery lip gloss, a journal… And I always feel compelled to reiterate that this box was sent to me after I publicly criticized her contradictory stories and means for recruiting and treating ex-performers. That she sends to women in need the exact same things she sends to her critics is a sick feeling I can’t even begin to cultivate verbally. It’s insulting, basically.

Kristenye’s story matches those of Maliah Milian, Savannah Jane (yet to come), Michelle Avanti, Brooke Ashley, and countless others (including, but not limited to, her own family), whose claims are that she doesn’t give aid, that she distorts information, and that she outright lies.

Kristenye’s account is probably more than can really be recounted in a few conversations, because it is a string of promises and reassurances with no substance. Like sending a letter to a judge on Kristenye’s behalf and lying, saying that Kristenye was off of drugs and that they had traveled together “on occasion” when they had only traveled together one time.

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Shelley adding at the bottom of Kristenye’s story on the website, hyper-excited text updates like,

I GOT MY G.E.D.

and

ME & MY MOM ARE GETTING ALONG AND WE’RE GOING CAMPING IN JULY

Kristenye says she did not get her GED, and that her and her mother are no longer speaking because of the show Kristenye appeared on; which was her stated fear in the first place.

The updates are very bizarre (I will not link to the page here):

updates

Kristenye goes on to say that though she didn’t ask Lubben to take her story down from Lubben’s sites, Kristenye’s mother did–and on several occasions–on the basis that Lubben hasn’t done “any good” for Kristenye; only harm. Kristenye says that every time a Pink Cross newsletter goes out, her “story” is redistributed to countless people.

Kristenye feels that her association with Shelley Lubben has set her back in her life; not advanced it. She had hope because Shelley was so encouraging and positive about her life being ‘meant for greater things’, that she followed Shelley’s instructions and now lives in a town where no one knows who she is (to escape being known after the notorioety of her “story” on Shelley’s site); she has no family or support system; she is estranged from her mother, and she has no financial aid. Kristenye feels the relationship with her mother could be restored if Shelley would just remove her story from Shelley’s site. Kristenye says that Shelley comforted her over her mother’s impending rejection of her over the show appearance by telling Kristenye that her own family hates her–though we know now that is not the case at all, (link here).

No one is perfect. I think any of us would have compassion for Shelley Lubben if she dropped the façade and came forward honestly in order to make amends with the women she has betrayed in the game of “making money” and “getting ahead.” Kristenye admits that she’s no angel, and it would be easy to reason that you might have actually encountered tough times if you are someone Pink Cross Foundation would contact and offer assistance to, but someone like that needs real help. Kristenye wishes that Shelley would take her testimony down and stop circulating her exaggerated life “story” in her newsletters because, while it has benefited Shelley and her foundation, it has only caused Kristenye pain. I, personaly, would like for Shelley Lubben to stop saying that Michael Whiteacre and I recruit women into porn. I nearly cried when I thought a friend and ex-Pink Cross spokesperson was going to start doing scenes again. I did cry when she told me she found a day job.

I’d like to close with a message to Kristenye’s mom, if she happens to eventually find this in place of the popular horror show that was a story fueled by Kristenye’s hopes and Shelley Lubben’s greed: It is clear to me that Kristenye loves you, and that you must love her, too. Forgive each other and reconcile. I met a kind young woman yesterday who is strong enough to admit she made a mistake. I, myself, am living proof of the danger of making a string of mistakes in life, but you both deserve a good relationship with each other. It’s never too late to forgive and love.

All my love and best to Kristenye, her daughter and her mother.

*Correction: It was not “one thousand dollars” Shelley Lubben bid for her date with famous adult porn performer, Ron Jeremy. It was over six hundred dollars.

The reposting of this article is allowed only with express written permission from © Julie Meadows Entertainment.


 

 

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24 Comments on “Former Porn Star Diamond Story” – another Shelley Lubben-affiliated performer speaks…

  1. PlayBoyMan on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 11:53 am

    2. This is a very good article. I understand that there are people who don’t like those in the entertainment industry, but to take advantage of people just to make yourself look good is just plain wrong, and Shelley Lubben should’ve known better.

    I hope Shelley comes to realize the error of her ways and stop this crap she’s spewing, and I think it’s great and brave of you Julie, to bring this all to light, so no one else falls for this.

    An excellent read.

  2. Michael Whiteacre on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 11:54 am

    3. Once again we see the willful distortion of reality by Shelley Lubben — even the smallest elements of her propaganda which purport to demonstrate “success” (such as Kristenye’s G.E.D. and her reconciliation with her mother) are lies; self-serving lies which are meant to illustrate the validity of Lubben”s nonexistent recovery “program.”

    If people made donations to Pink Cross in Kristenye’s name, as she claims and has offered too demonstrate through emails, etc… — where did the money and other gifts go?

    It wasn’t in the box of “dollar store” items, that’s for damn sure.

    What WAS Shelley wiling to do? Something that cost NO MONEY: a letter to a judge. A letter in which, by the way, she made assertions SHE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO TRUTHFULLY MAKE about a woman she had not seen in person in over three years!

    Shelley Lubben: liar, manipulator, con artist, addict, and predator who preys on the vulnerable.

  3. Julie Meadows on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 12:40 pm

    4. @PlayBoyMan–Thank you. Just hurt myself laughing at your Tay Stevens post, btw.

    I get the feeling that Lubben sending women the same box of junk she’ll send to people who don’t like her, is her way of spitting on these women. The kind of degradation you see some pornographers engage in.

    ‘I’m going to trick this person into creating their own horror ‘wiki’ [thinking of PWL here], and not only send them nothing of value, I’ll never take it down, and then just for my own kicks, I’m going to send them all the free junk I don’t want that people send me. [Insert sinister laughter]‘

    I can’t get over that part. My brain is literally stuck on it.

  4. Adam Wilcox on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 12:40 pm

    5. Yet another story of someone negatively affected by their association with Shelley Lubben. At this point, I honestly don’t understand how anyone could trust her credibility with the number of stories that have emerged from former Pink Cross members.

    I realize there are quite a few of Lubben’s associates who fall on the other side of the arguement and defend her, claiming she has helped them immensely and is everything she says she is. I look at the situation like this:

    For arguement’s sake, let’s say for a minute that everyone – both those who accuse Lubben of negatively impacting their lives and the people who believe in her and/or insist she has helped them – are telling the truth. That doesn’t change the number of disturbing stories from those formerly associated with Lubben accusing her of being a liar, fraud and hypocrite. And for an organization that supposedly exists to assist and care for people, that number is far too high.

    So what if Lubben and the Pink Cross are helping even the majority of those under their umbrella (and not that I’m suggesting I believe that is the case, mind you)? A support/charity group is supposed to help EVERYONE in need of their assistance – not 50 percent, 75, or even 95. At the end of the day, shouldn’t it really be 100 percent?

    You stated that Kristenye believes her relationship with her mother could be repaired if her story was removed from Lubben’s website. If that is the case, I sincerely hope her mother realizes very soon that is not the issue and isn’t important. What matters most is for a mother, daughter and granddaughter to try and put everything that has happened between them in the past (keeping in mind there may be other issues we are not aware of) behind them and come together as a family. Hopefully, that will happen in the near future – especially with the holidays fast approaching. I echo your best wishes to them all.

  5. Christina on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 12:44 pm

    6. So let me get this straight about this woman. She was stripping and doing cam work, as well as performed in a few amateur videos in Virginia and never came out to LA to actually pursue a career as a performer?

    Considering that Shelley whole schtick is about helping “porn stars” get out of the industry and on a Christian path, Kristenye seems like an ususual person for her to latch onto. I mean, she only did a handful of amateur videos that had probably nothing to do with the adult industry as most people would define. As a former club performer myself I know that some of the guys that come into the club can make you feel dirty and stuff like that but I never had a problem with, thankfully. Though I’ve never been a cam model, I can’t imagine there too many crappy things about that. Other than maybe being with a cam site that takes like half your money. I guess I’m just confused as to why Shelley would choose this woman when her stories can’t really be that horrific, compared to other stories she has on her site.

    Maybe I’m wrong though.

  6. Anthony Kennerson on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 12:50 pm

    7. WOW. I just heard of this story..and I am STUNNED.

    I wonder..did “Kristenye” have to fill out the same form for solicitating PCF funds that Shelley gave the others??

    And then, there is that letter to the judge?? I wonder..did Kristenye solicit Shelley to write that, or did Shelley just do that on her own recourse just to counter the bad press from that Cambridge speech and that Pornstar Kareoke fundraiser event??

    And, really, Shelley..all that taxpayer money you got of mooching off these women, and the best you could do to reward them is some cheap swag off your Amazon page??

    And you DARE to call porn “legalized slavery”?? Seriously???

    Only thing that seperates Shelley Lubben from George Rekers, Ted Haggared, and other loony fundie hypotwits, is the discovery of the secret sex tape. With this woman, I wouldn’t put anything past her.

    Way to do real journalism, Julie.

    Anthony

  7. Michael Whiteacre on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 1:02 pm

    8. @Christina — You’re trying to make sense out of the actions of Shelley Lubben. Lubben has tried repeatedly to assemble a rag-tag army. Even then, back in 2007, no one in porn wanted to have anything to do with her. This was around the time that she was contacted every adult entertainer who had a substantial number of MySpace followers, including Taryn Thomas and Eve Laurence.

    Shelley wanted to get herself onto the “Teens That Live Double Lives” episode, so she found herself a teen performer and rode her coattails. That’s it. From there on out it was “churn and burn” Lubben-style.

  8. Christina on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 1:05 pm

    9. @michael

    Yeah, that makes sense I suppose. You get what I mean though about Shelley going to her. From what I read, she had to “spice” up her story before she put it up because what she was told wasn’t “good” enough obviously

  9. Michael Whiteacre on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 1:28 pm

    10. @Chritsina — Lubben is so full of herself, she thinks she can spin anything into gold –and, because she chose to spin tales in the world of faith (where the arguments don’t stand up to logical examination and they don’t have to) she was able to find plenty of willing, trusting people who took her to be what she claimed.

    But now, as her family had warned her, her lies have finally caught up to her, and she is going to have to pay the price. As G-d is my witness, I will demand that she does.

  10. Julie Meadows on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 1:29 pm

    11. @Adam–You are absolutely right. It should [not] matter that Lubben’s page on her is out there. No one needs a good reason to embrace someone they most likely care about. Relationships can be complicated, though. Someone I loved turned on me and I can’t explain it in any rational way. The love is still there, but things have gotten complicated and may never heal.

    Also, good point about the help to hurt ratio. Say you help ten people but one person is just naturally hostile and nothing can make them happy. Or an unfortunate series of events causes a riff. Nine to one ain’t bad. I’d say that’s a good track record.

    Lubben’s record is horrible. That is indicative of something.

    @Christina–Kristenye and I talked for a bit about Lubben’s chameleon tendencies to shape-shirt depending on who she’s dealing with. A con artist/sociopath can manipulate their own personality to fit the situation and their desired outcome. Michael’s right. She wanted that t.v. spot. She knew what to say to a young woman with relationship problems with her own mother.

    @Anthony–In 2007 she hadn’t developed the contract, yet, for helping women. That is my understanding, anyway. I can go back and look at the email, if I still have it.

  11. Anthony Kennerson on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 2:43 pm

    12. @Julie: OK, I see..I believe that that “contract” must have been created to justify her tax-exempt status, then??

    @Michael: What really gets me is that if Shelley really did talk the walk of being a true person of faith, don’t you think she would have responded to the requests of Kristenye’s own MOTHER to take down that faked up profile?? I mean, I can understand here fighting Kristenye, but kind of hard to blow off her mother.

    Then again, I guess that to Shelley, if it doesn’t directly benefit her pocketbook, it’s simply thrown away.

    This is getting more and more into Jim Jones territory. Without the spiked KoolAid, and hired gunmen, of course.

    Anthony

  12. Julie Meadows on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 4:12 pm

    13. @Anthony–From the email of that anonymous woman about the application:

    “I’ve attached the application they make a victim fill out. This is highly unusual for a nonprofit to make a victim do before they will help. She makes you cut off any residuals or subsequent income coming from the porn industry then she doesn’t help you after you cut off that money that could help you move on. Also, she told me quite a few times that they don’t give cash to the victims because they will just use it to go buy drugs. She is very jaded toward these women so how does she expect society to think any differently?”

    “The requirement on their “new” application that we have full time employment to receive help shows they don’t really want to help anyone. It’s a requirement to keep them from having to help us.”

    I’m not sure how the application came about, but since Kristenye didn’t mention it, I’m guessing that 2007 was earlier than that. I don’t think they even had legitimate non-profit status officially until 2008.

  13. Michael Whiteacre on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 4:26 pm

    14. Pink Cross was incorporated in 2008, and wasn’t officially a non-profit organization until January 2009.

  14. Adam Wilcox on Sun, 18th Dec 2011 5:39 am

    15. Lydia: That’s true: Perhaps expecting a 100% help rate from every support group is unreasonable. As you said, there could on occasion be certain circumstances which prevent an individual from being helped (which may not necessarily be the organization’s fault).

    I can’t help but laugh every time I see the conditions attached to receiving the Pink Cross’s “assistance” – what a joke.

  15. Firefighter Chaplain on Tue, 20th Dec 2011 6:00 am

    16. Just wanted to mention one thing. I am not real sure the bible condemns strong language. As a matter of fact, there is some very strong language in the bible. While I agree that many religious people deplore “cursing”, I do not see any specific prohibition of it in scripture.

    Thank you for your genuine concern for these girls. I love reading your blog because your compassion and love for them is obvious.

  16. Julie Meadows on Tue, 20th Dec 2011 12:46 pm

    17. @Firefighter Chaplain–It’s some kind of funny myth, I think, that cursing is a sin. My mother tried desperately to get my dad to stop cursing and he’d just curse more. I believe it’s more about the intention to paint yourself a certain way for your performance, knowing damn well that is not really who you are.

    I wrote something a long time ago basically saying, “Enjoy what Shelley does if you want. She’s certainly entertaining. Just appreciate it for what it is; a performance.”

    @Adam–I still can’t get over the SS# part. Now that I know what lengths she’ll go to to harass people who speak out against her, it makes sense.

    Oh, and Michael shared this yesterday via his FaceBook page:

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2918799179202&set=a.1734551213743.98548.1537467760&type=1&theater

  17. Adam Wilcox on Tue, 20th Dec 2011 4:17 pm

    18. Lydia: It really is galling to ask for that kind of information, as is requiring someone who leaves porn to refuse any post-income from the industry – even after they’ve ALREADY LFET! – while (according to many who have been associated with the Pink Cross) failing to assist them financially in any real way.

  18. Adam Wilcox on Tue, 20th Dec 2011 4:19 pm

    19. Oops – sorry, that should read “ALREADY LEFT” (Dyslexia can be a bitch sometimes, lol).

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  20. Holly J Dray on Mon, 26th Dec 2011 11:58 am

    21. 75% of what my daughter is telling you about this is true especially the parts about Shelley Lubben…I emailed her and tried to leave message or comment to her…She would not allow me in her sites or not answer the email…I believe I had response in the beginning where I am to blame for it all…A- KRISTEN WAS ON PAROLE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE VA BEACH…2. She has never had her first daughter who is six…She is bipolar and needs to be on meds….She is a five time violater who has chose the easy way out and until recently has had not had a job for any length of time that was legal…She was on over 64 sites…iF SHE HAD STAYED IN VA BEACH COMPLETED HER PROGRAMS AND TRIED TO SEE HER DAUGHTER WHO WE SET UP FOR HER TO SEE she would have got her ged and herself straight she chose to violate and go to Roanoke for a couple of years with a sentence over her head after New York…SHE CHOSE kRISTENYE BECAUSE THEY ARE VERY MUCH ALIKE IN USING THE SYSTEM…tHE LETTER THAT SHE SENT WAS TRUE SHE HAD NOT SEEN HER FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS…Kristen had done drugs and erotic massage etc got picked up when she used the system got a job at a bread place and had a two month old child when she was arrested….SHELLEYS BROTHER WROTE AN ARTICLE ABOUT SHELLEY LUBBEN THAT WAS TOO CLOSE TO HOME….When Kristen told us she was going to be on tv and to watch…I said oh no this is not right she is not suppose to leave without permission but she did…Kristen has always had a exporn star site with a remarkable story but this family has sunk thousands of dollars blood sweat and tears now we are looking out for the innocent but Shelleys letter got her out of trouble again…She is and was in all kinds of sites as Kristenye Moran Kristenye Riddick and diamond girl poison bang n chick…If this was all that kristen had even done in the last three years to this family….She was lying to her family and leading a dual life to america for the last 9 years….I have a six year old in a christian home who also does not condone a whole lot in the lifestyle that Kristen lives in and I pay tuition for a small one plus teach at a Christian preschool…Kristen Moran Riddick needs to follow through with something and stop living a double life …She is claiming to be married to two people Ivory Riddick and this woman tiara wade who she has been with off and on for the last two years…New grandbaby sy’nai separated from her for months when she was in and then drug back and forth here and there…We really would like to see long time change and going forward and completing things in her life not taking the easy way out or running and she would do well staying on her meds signed herself out of a mental health treatment center at eighteen….She still needs help…I AM A MOM WHOSE HOME HAS BEEN ROBBED TWICE HAS HAD TO PROTECT GRANDBABY FROM MAMA WITHOUT ANY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WHAT SO EVER SHE HAS SENT ONE OR TWO CARDS BOUGHT A BOX OF DIAPER AND ONE JAR OF FORMULA AND SEEN THIS CHILD FIFTEEN HRS IN HER WHOLE LIFE…I love her but do not like who she is and can not allow some things in my home and world…Would love to believe a change for more than a month or two…A very tired mom/grandmom

  21. Holly J Dray on Mon, 26th Dec 2011 12:07 pm

    22. Sorry about missing grammar and words such as Jail…My daughter Kristen Moran is a Master Manipulator…If proof to anything I have said is needed I have that…I have been threatened by criminals more than once…I picked my grandchild up from Prison day one when she was born…She lives in a christian home with her grandpa and I and goes to christian school does dance cheerleading and attends church…She never did bond we are her mom and dad and we are very much protective…Kristenye as she calls herself most of the time is my daughter and I lover her just don’t like her if you understand….I have been cursed at threatened attacked by a couple of her friends etc.,

  22. Holly J Dray on Mon, 26th Dec 2011 12:16 pm

    23. I also see she talks about needing clothes for her daughter…wrong we took care of every part of that childs neen came eventually and stayed a couple of weekends and went back to this woman and got into trouble again she was daincing and hooking eds she had supervised visitation until she left the scene and she saw her maybe an hour hour and a half when she did come which was fifteen hours…She had every opportunity to get her life straightand through her family.. she had a place wiaitn for her when she got out of prision she went to a crackhead womans house and BELIEVE ME SHE HAS AND IS IN DENIAL ABOUT A LOT OF THING BUT THIS IS GOOD SHE IS THINKING ABOUT SOME OF THE PAIN SHE CAUSED TO FAMILY MEMBER WHO SHE HAS USED UP…

  23. Julie Meadows on Mon, 26th Dec 2011 12:56 pm

    24. @Holly J Dray–Thank you for adding your thoughts here. I’m very sorry to hear that you and your daughter have these deep riffs, but I hope that things work out in favor of you and she and her daughter (your granddaughter), and husband bonding and reconciling your issues.

    I and others are doing what we can to help her get the information taken down from Shelley Lubben’s sites, so hopefully that could be a step in the right direction?

    I won’t insert myself further because I’m just a blogger and ex-performer, myself, but I do wish you all the best and hope to hear happy news about your family in the near future.

  24. Dawn on Thu, 19th Apr 2012 6:16 am

    25. Ya know I just said to my husband last night that in light of all the info I was learning about Shelley Lubben, that I wondered whatever happened to Kristenye Riddick. And here I find the answer.

    I do not run a 501c3, but I remember a woman needed help with paying her rent, and I asked some myspace friends to donate money to her. Some people sent me the money, and I forwarded it. I think I did this twice in the last few years. Anyway, a friend told me that Shelley Lubben contacted him and told him not to send me any money for donations, to send the money to her organization instead. When I confronted Shelley on this she denied it and stated that she’s been under so much stress that she is getting sick and she doesn’t have time for games. I just let it go from there.

    I’m so glad Kristenye came forward and told her story, may it serve as a warning to anyone who is considering donating to the Pink Cross.

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