She was generous to her friends, who would later recall her propensity for talking about mysterious, wealthy boyfriends that nobody else ever met. The next year she moved to Manhattan, taking an apartment in Midtown and a new first name: Tania.
They eventually became like a family. When the second plane hit at am she vividly described crawling through smoke and flames to get to safety. Her story fused mundane and horrific details together. She would later say how her thoughts turned to the silly argument she and Dave had as they got out of their shared taxi.
In the next breath, she recalled the burning bodies flinging themselves out of the skyscraper, the screaming, the desperation to work out what had happened. She later told members of the World Trade Survivors Network she saw the wing of the United Airlines Flight Boeing jet slice like a knife into the building just above her.
Glass and debris flew everywhere as the walls imploded. As Ms Head was thrown against a wall, she could only wish that she would die quickly. Her arm nearly severed, amid the dust and chaos she recalled incredibly vivid details. She later claimed was led to safety by a genuine hero of the attacks, the man in the red bandana, Welles Crowther. A man emerged from the rubble with a ring that he asked her to give his wife. She later delivered the ring.
She claimed to have woken up in a hospital burns unit six days later, only to discover that her husband Dave had been killed in the north tower. On and on the fantastical tale went, gathering such cinematic swagger that she would try to make actual survivors feel guilty about sharing their own trauma in front of her. Ms Head threw herself into the work of the Survivors Network, founding a group of survivors from the South Tower.
Ms Head poured energy, time and money into helping the group achieve tax-free status. They had been planning to get legally married in October, she said, and were living together in Manhattan with their Golden Retriever, Elvis. She had scarring, but not the kind of injuries that could have come from what she had described. These inconsistencies in her story were noticed, but let go by other survivors. Her name is Alicia Esteve Head known at the time as Tania.
Belle Gibson was given media training in which she allegedly practiced her cancer claims. Post continues after video. Instead, she stated that she was a survivor of the most infamous terror attack in modern history — the attack by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, Head, who was 27 at the time, stated she was one of the few survivors that escaped from the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
She said she had been on the level above where the plane had hit on the 78th floor. Within the unpaid role, she lobbied on behalf of the group and achieved some success, helping grant access for survivors to visit the Ground Zero site.
When the New York Times investigated Head for a commemorative piece on the attacks, they discovered discrepancies in her accounts, facts changing over time and eventually discovered that she had actually not even been in the US at all at the time of the September 11 attacks.
Head was exposed as a Spanish woman, who was in fact in her native Spain taking college classes at the time of the attack. She had never even been to the US until when she visited New York with her mother. While she had been known as Tania in the US, her real name was found to be Alicia. What both Gibson and Head did is not new. Pseudologia fantastica is defined as a syndrome where people "represent certain fantasies as real occurrences," and is understood to be a "rare but dramatic clinical psychiatric presentation," according to a recent study led by Dr.
In their own investigation, The Independent revealed they were unable to "verify a Linkedin profile for Alicia Esteve Head that appears to match her biography and claims she is still working at the Esade Business School and living in New York. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories.
Meghan and Harry look super loved up right now. Here, we take a look back at her story, and ask, where is Tania Head now? Craig Allen Getty Images. Cutting Edge Channel 4. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below.
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