This is not truly a story about sudden celebrity and and the negatives that can come with it despite the fact LUCYinLA (Laura Segura) and some of her fans would like to believe it is.

This is a story about truth, honesty, what is real and what isn't.

Several days ago the truth about LUCYinLA came out after a week or so of speculation in light of the LonelyGirl15 revelation.

Initially messages and video's began appearing on YouTube with cryptic messages asking LUCY to come clean with her fans. LUCY's response to these stories and video's was a video entitled "LUCYinLA / Meet My Family" at the beginning of which she pinches her arm and states "I'm real, I am real" and continues with footage of a trip to see her family so we the viewer can see how real she is.

This didn't have the desired effect apparently, it simply angered those who eventually exposed her as someone quite different from the LUCY character she had been playing.

It turns out that LUCY was actually Laura Segura who while actually an actress living in L.A. was not working for a temp agency, is actually a member of the Screen Actor's Guild, and the stories she told, which were characterized as current events were not, though she does claim they are actual experiences from her life.

The video's which were supposed to have taken place in an office where she was working as a temp were actually filmed in her Director/Cameraman/Editor's office and her website which included pictures as well as her resume was taken down less than a week before her first video appeared on YouTube. Draw your own conclusion or not about the reason for that.

Apparently due to the "harassment" she was receiving from fans who say their motivation was that they were upset by the deception, she felt it necessary to respond with the two part video mentioned in the "pressures of celebrity" article. (see above link for that article which included this response)

In those video's she and her cameraman confirm all of these things but, still insist despite that, that "they are real". At one point or another they blame "psychos" and "freaks" for their problems and then say that "haters" hate them "because they are real".

Other YouTube "celebs" with many more subscribers who don't hide who they are or where they live such as Geriatric1927 renetto or FilthyWhore (sorry but that's her profile name) among others haven't had any problems with people that have required them to respond with tearful video's and these are people who never anticipated celebrity or sought it the way Laura has.

You would think that Laura would have foreseen and reconciled this as a possible consequence of seeking to be a "star" in Hollywood. Maybe the difference between them and her is she is just so "real".

I don't know that Laura should be blamed for not understanding what is real and what isn't she does after all live in a world where the line between them is very often blurred. They do after all call Hollywood "The Land of Make Believe".

I just wanted to add that anyone who might be looking for a new fake person to replace LUCY might want to check out Taraiscrushed.

She's an attractive 25 year old who's profile reads "I am in love with a guy but he doesn't even know i exist. The story of my life. Sux but true."

At least this girl is such a bad actress that I doubt many of her nearly 1400 subscribers (#3 most subscribed channel this week) actually believe she's real unless they've been living in a cave and never heard of lonelygirl15 or LUCYinLA.

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