Between cries and scandals

Nina was incommunicado. Imagine what she was going through, if it's hard enough for an artist to deal with the harassment of the press, with the false news in the race for audience, with thousands of nasty comments and still remain stable, smiling and moving on, imagine what it was like for Nina. That I wasn't used to any of this. A shock, a trauma, irreparable damage!

David was also unable to speak to Nina's friends, who were consequently involved in this circus of terror. All emails went back to her inbox. All cell phones turned off. All social networks disabled. He wanted to tell her about the shared library, even though she would hate him forever.

Luckily for everyone, time didn't take long, it passed swiftly like an indomitable horse, and for Nina it did too. After a month, she thought she should have fallen by the wayside by now, but the news only got bigger and bigger. Her friends Lyon and Kara, who were living with her during this storm, traveled in Nina's car to hide in the mountains. They went to an interior that was almost four hours from Bergen, in the Sogn og Fjordane region of Svelgen.

While Nina flees to isolate herself from the world, David goes on a top-rated show on the planet and gives a full interview about the two of them. He tackles topics such as haters, cyber toxicity, bullying, lies and slander, and defends Nina tooth and nail.

He defends her integrity, talks about her on a daily basis, talks about her personality, people noticed the affection he had for her in his way of speaking, his conviction, the sparkle in his eyes, he declares that he has the sure that she never had an agreement with anyone, and these people who were lying were going to be unmasked by the authorities.

He didn't know that these false witnesses had been paid and hired by his own staff. It was them all along, after all. From the first photo published in Rome. That's why they didn't publish Nina's face before. That's why they had control over what would or would not be exposed. They could never harm David and his image.

He makes a plea for respect, asks his fans to respect her. Ask the nasty comments to stop. He lectures the media and all the people who have published lies and slander without bothering to destroy a person's life. He sends her a message live, on Elena's show, for the whole world to witness. Apologize for everything:

“David. The program ends in a few seconds. If you could say something about this to Nina Dahl, what would you say? asked the presenter.

"I would apologize." He looked at the camera, as if speaking to her. "Sorry for everything people are doing to you." That was her biggest fear! I know it wasn't you, I believe you, Nina. Be strong! All this will pass. No matter what they post, I'm with you.

This interview caused a stir a thousand times greater on the internet. If Nina's name had become the subject of media gossip after these statements by David, surely her name would never be forgotten. Kara and Lyon watched this interview, tried in various ways to show her this video, but they couldn't find a way to show it because they could barely touch his name with it. They knew they would break it. Nina couldn't look at a picture of him without breaking down.

— Niny... he defended you woman, he exposed himself for you, he kicked the tent's cock! He would never do that if he didn't really love you! Look what you made him do! — Lyon said without patience for not understanding: if there is love, why didn't it last?

"Nina woman!" You don't even deserve this man's love! If it were I would have already left everything, home, work, dog, cat, and I would have left with him! What is this warm love? We see you falling apart, breaking every bone in your body from the inside out, every time you hear his name, and why the hell don't you call? Don't get on a plane and go after him? He goes to a press conference and says he loves him, dammit!

Nina sat them down, started telling them every fear, frustration, every detail and moment she'd lived with Dave since the day they'd first met. She recounted the threats she had suffered from her agents, what they had been able to do with other famous and millionaires who had passed through his life, she recounted every feeling she had about an exposed life, and her friends understood her. They screamed, kicked, threatened Paul and Tony loudly, indignantly!

Kara and Lyon understood that they too could easily become a target, if they brought it up to the media, or tried to stand up to them. There was a militia manipulating what went viral on the internet or not, firms specializing in gossip publications and subjects about artists, or whoever it was. Their lives could be completely overturned in the blink of an eye.

"But Niny... if that's what you feared, now there's nothing left to be exposed!" There's nothing more to be done to you.

- We do not know. And not just for the three of us, there's Dave too. If Rich is the egg hen of this gang of white-collar mobsters, what can they do with his career when they lose control of him? I can't risk it! It's out of the question. I won't pay to see it!

A few more weeks passed in Ytrehus' world and Nina didn't set foot on the street. No phone, no social networking whatsoever. Maybe that's what saved her, because she didn't read anything, didn't follow anything at all. She did very well. Friends could swear she wasn't human.

She watched every series that existed on HBO, Netflix, Passionflix, Withlove, Amazon and others. She had talked to her private doctor and her leave from work had been extended indefinitely. She used Lyon's phone to talk to her doctor, she accompanied her by texting, video calling and solving virtually everything.

David spent day and night recording for multiple streaming and film projects at the same time. Several advertisements and interviews in lives, this was the new trend in the market since the “corona virus” appeared. Companies had to reinvent themselves in order not to go bankrupt and continue producing. If people were to stay home, entertainment had to be delivered somehow from home. He still didn't have any kind of news from Nina. All emails to Kara and Lyon kept coming back to her mailbox with the message: “recipient not found”. Her phone had also been cancelled, from the thousands of times he called from other phones, the message was the same: “this number doesn't exist”.

As if everything that was happening was not enough, Nina, prisoner of her own life without having committed any crime, accused, hated and cursed by thousands of people who never even saw her in front of her, yet another bomb came in the morning.

Her current cell phone and laptop had been hacked through the internet and the nearly 100,000 photos she'd had since her time on Orkut in 1999, were on display for the world to see. Private photos, photos from your adolescence, photos from school, nudes, prints of conversations and accounts, private letters from public bodies, absolutely everything. There wasn't a filter, there wasn't a selection. Whoever did this couldn't leave traces, couldn't select just a few intended photos. So it had to look like anyone with no specific interest just did it out of spite. A crime without bail, several crimes had been committed against her.

David was freaking out about it all. It was the height of the lack of evolution of the human species, to have exposed their romance, but now, they were exposing her family too, their intimacy, privacy. She was having her clothes ripped off in a public square, like in that scene from Cersei in Game of Thrones, where she walked naked through the streets, being stoned, the difference was that her sanding was virtual, but no less impactful and consequential.

From now on, Nina would have to leave the house to attend the police station and meet with a lawyer. The Norwegian police were thoroughly investigating the facts of the incident. After all, several laws had been broken, including invasion of privacy, espionage, exposure of a non-public citizen, and many others.

A whole private life played online for anyone who wanted to access, copy and opine. The Norwegian and Brazilian justice was supporting and guiding her. These crimes committed against her have caused controversy and debate around the world. People were starting to divide opinions and protest what they were doing to her, even though there were still radical haters accusing her of setting her up to be world famous.

Lay people accused her, not knowing that David was directly connected to these images, and not knowing that David's agents, also had access to these contents, where she kept all the photos online. She also kept copies of everything she did on her phone through her phone company as the service was free and included in the phone plan, but neither company was able to crack the case.

The moment David told the agents at the hospital how he met her, he gave ideas and ammunition against his beloved. Unknowingly he dictated his sentence, handed his head on a platter. They acted immediately by shutting down Nina's phone to search for these hundreds of images. If she hadn't turned in her cell phone, they'd find a way to access the account David was following her in secretly.

Nina was only aware of what was happening on the surface, as her friends Kara and Lyon did not tell everything, following the psychologist's recommendations that accompanied them in this difficult phase. Kara had gotten another phone number for her, one that wasn't registered in either of their names. Nina had filed a lawsuit against the internet company that allowed a hacker to breach their network secrecy, another lawsuit against Google Photos, against the phone line company, and against her phone brand company, etc.

No one could explain how hackers gained access to her Google account, until she turned over her phone to the proper authorities.

Lawyers and police immediately found a suspect to hold responsible for releasing all of her photos: David. Who had suddenly been summoned by the British police.

Tony and Paul once again were unharmed from any accusation, as no vehicle in any app had claimed first-hand news that left traces, there were thousands of online publications, which were renewed and reposted every day, on Instagram, people retweeted, reposted on Facebook and all other pages. It was like a snowball, thus making it difficult for the police to track down who were the first promoters of online libel.

These cybercrime professionals had thousands of fake accounts and published in all of them, there are companies that work with that, with fake accounts to increase likes and comments on artists' photos, all to manipulate the media and the numbers of views.

They never found evidence that they were David's agents. Even David couldn't blame them, as they were all so interested in their romance, always telling him that they were supporting him, and that they were happy for them.

Nina had to cancel several times the only means of communication she had, which were her email and phone number. She tried to make several fake profiles on Facebook, Messenger etc. to talk to her family in Brazil, but these were instantly discovered.

She made a new one every time she wanted to talk to someone, then permanently deleted it. She was afraid to even make a phone call from her friends and then find out that they too had been hacked because of her.

Time seemed to drag on. Nina hidden in the mountains in Ytrehus, slept early, woke up early, trained, danced, cooked, meditated, fished, hiked outdoors, studied and followed a schedule of her own making to overcome all these setbacks.

She had become her own resilience! Although the world was against Nina, a lonely woman, poor, a nurse, they hadn't been able to shake her as much as they thought they could. She cried, yes, when David left, but she would wipe her tears and be ready to go back to work and her humdrum life after a while.

She cried, yes, turned inside out when she discovered the scandals on the internet, but one day it would all pass if it weren't for the constant quotes of her name months after it happened. Either way she would rise again. Until, Kara and Lyon decide not to hide what was happening anymore.

Nina couldn't believe her ears. His friends claiming that police found the source linking the online library between his Google account connected directly to David's. She doubted it, even going so far as to retort that information.

- Not! David no. Not even! Stop talking like that! It was not him! I'm telling you, it wasn't him.

“We're not the ones saying, you'll see all the records, they're police statements. There's no denying it, Nina. I'm very sorry. Kara said, trying to prepare her.

"No matter what the police say, no matter what the police show me, even the most irrevocable evidence, I'm telling you, it wasn't him!" I know him. I would never do that.

'You said yourself he threatened to make a fuss!' Lyon completed.

“David would never expose me like that. Nude photos, photos even in the bathroom, videos, my whole life without a filter... say what you want, it wasn't him!

Despite everything that was crumbling over her head, she knew how to protect herself. He went to the police station, gave his statement, saw the evidence, heard the arguments of a specialized team, even so, she continued stating with all conviction that it hadn't been him. Until, investigators inform her that he had confessed.

She read the inquest but couldn't believe what her eyes just read. Nina glared at those accusing people, claiming that even though she didn't want to formally charge him, there was enough evidence and confession for him to pay for the crimes. The companies involved would not let this go unpunished.

She looks at them, and says that he may even have hidden from her the fact that he has tracked his life online through a photo storage network, but he would never have exposed anything in the media. She stated that the prosecution could not proceed, as she had sent an invitation to share her library online.

Nina sits down and tells in detail everything that happened before Rome. Every detail since the first day David sought her out. Her testimony took hours, and she defended him until the last minute, then went home.

In her home, she kept trying to assimilate the fact that David was stalking her. Never in such a short time had she experienced so many distortions of reality. "Who was he? What else did she not know? What else was he capable of? What else was he hiding?" were the thoughts surrounding his head. She couldn't sleep that night, thinking about what he'd done.

She only kept in touch with Lyon and Kara, who were the first to show her everything that was happening to her. Even now, after the testimony, Nina came to see the interviews that David gave defending her. Her mind felt like an amusement park, her feelings for him had never been so confused! “He hates to expose himself, and talk about his intimacy, hates talking about relationships, but he talked about me, defended me, and then reveals to the police that he raped me, spyed on me, read and reviewed all the secret, private, intimate details of my day-to-day, everything I've lived for decades... How can a person be righteous, moral, be good or even love, when he invades another's rights of freedom?” Nina wondered.

He was the first to violate her complete privacy, the first to act like the paparazzi and everyone else on social media. How could he now stand against all these people if he did the same! Hypocrisy! In the midst of so much hurt, she thought quickly, maybe the agents would stake her through Dave too. Thinking back to the day Paul and Tony took her phone, she began a rampant research into the policy of sharing photos, soon to be an expert on the subject. I wanted to find a way to set a mousetrap, to help the police catch the real rats!

Nina was already isolated because of the quarantine, she was even more isolated after such disappointment. He didn't talk to anyone but his two friends. I couldn't move house, couldn't travel. She was even lucky not to have been harassed by reporters and bloggers on her doorstep, first because we are talking about Norway, which severely punishes threats, slander, false witness, digital or physical harassment, where people respect the laws and people's rights with more care and attention, and second because of the pandemic.

Even with less intense chases around her, Nina lived in fear, if someone implanted themselves in the woods behind her house in Bergen, and managed to get thousands of intimate photos between her and David, who would know what else they would be capable of? She was already brooding about grace, imagine after all that! She kept imagining, studying how they had acted. “A listen? In David's things? In her things? Spy programs? How did they know absolutely everything that was going on?"

Nina didn't want to have to deal often with the police, or lawyers, didn't want to go to the police station, but she had to go to Bergen to talk to the responsible authorities every time she was subpoenaed.

Despite everything they did to her, including David, she was very strong. She had an impact, yes, she was very sad and felt violated by him, and by everyone, she needed a lot of meditation, a lot of concentration exercise to calm her mind, and in the end she did it. Although she could freak out, she preferred not to let her feelings control her, used an incredible inner resilience to overcome and fortify herself. He was letting the dust settle to get back to his work and his normal life, and most of all, he had the support of family and friends.

Weeks passed and Nina continued to refuse to speak out to anyone in the media. She didn't even feel the need to defend herself, or even retort or accuse anyone through the media, although she could have, because she knew it had been David's agents.

She spent the next few weeks locked away, more isolated from the world than the people who strictly adhered to quarantine, needed time to forgive Dave in her heart. Even confused, she didn't let her emotional turmoil end her state of mental health. I just needed time.

Nina didn't really want fame, nor anyone's money. She took a while to pick up her pieces, but she did, and now she was ready to put her face in the sun.

He went back to work before the deadline, on his own. She was dedicated to the contamination area, accompanying the patients isolated and infected with Covid-19, which was very good for her at that time, as she didn't want to have to explain anything to her colleagues there. People at work were banned from bringing up the subject. Nina didn't comment either.

Nina usually avoided closer contact with strangers, she usually didn't like it, but this time she walked with her head held high, smiling at everyone on the street who looked her in the eye, something in her inner ego was hurt with pride against the world. She was a passive Aryan, one of those who felt, but preferred to walk away, but this time, she was ready to attack!

It wasn't long before she walked out the door of work and had a journalist, albeit discreet as any good Norwegian, standing in the doorway trying to ask her a question. She didn't respond, purposefully walked with a posture so straight it hurt the vertebrae in her spine. She had walked with her head held high, as if she were walking down a catwalk to her car, purposefully dressed, wearing makeup, and wearing sunglasses when it wasn't raining. Now they were going to see what it's like to mess with an Aryan!

Nina was dressed in her armored armor, and nothing and no one was going to be able to hurt her, shake her, or insult her. She “rolled up her sleeves” and was just waiting to be attacked. It's like the Brazilian saying goes: it can come hot because I'm boiling!

As she opened the car door, a tall, bald, well-dressed man approached her carefully and said that he just wanted to ask if she was all right. Nina looked at him before getting into the car and asked if she knew him. He introduced himself as a journalist for one of the best-known newspapers in Bergen. She replied that yes, she was better than ever. He got into the car and sat down. The man came to the door and handed her a card, inviting her to an interview. She handed the card back to him, ending the conversation by saying she didn't see the need for it.

"You don't want to defend yourself against the accusations?" Show your side of the story? "You asked, sir."

“Are you recording this? she asked.

- No, I'm not. I just want to help you, Nina.

“I don't need help or defense.

"But there were many articles accusing you." It's been months and you're gone. Nobody had a chance to hear your version.

“I don't care about people's judgment. And I'm not interested in proving anything. I just want them to leave me alone!

“Your name will always be out there associated with everything that has been said about you. Whether you like it or not. We can talk without obligation after you read today's note. You can prove to people that you were everyone's victim.

“I don't want to prove anything. Let them think what they want. People just see, just listen, just understand and just say what they want. It's not worth spending time and energy on what happened. And the more people like you look for this story, for whatever purpose, the less I will be at peace!

Nina got in her car, started Spotify, turned up the sound, and got out. It still hurt to listen to the songs that reminded her of the times she'd spent with David. Of course! But she focused on the power of now. Every time heavy, sad thoughts tried to settle in her mind, she would soon shake them off. She used to ask herself what she was doing now, what she would do next, and she would describe now in her mind. She constantly trained her mind to be stronger than her desires and feelings, this is called emotional intelligence.

The next day there was a story saying that David Nichols' affaire had been caught leaving work, back to normal. And that she didn't want to know about giving an interview, much less explaining. The journalist had faithfully replicated everything Nina had replied. He came to her defense and raised several questions about the behavior of people behind a phone on various social networks.

The newspaper had arrived firsthand in Nina's mailbox. At first she was reluctant to read it as she already imagined such an annoyance. He thought a little about the new phase he was going through, in which he had decided to be strong, not to care and face the world, if necessary, with his head held high. So she read it. The journalist had written good and true things. It raised questions that were part of the thoughts Nina shared. He criticized the way in which humanity easily became inhuman with a cell phone in hand. She talked about feminism, cited Nina as an example of female empowerment, and she just loved it. For everything that was written there was true.

The journalist knew almost everything about Nina's life. One of the questions that suggested the haters' reflection was: How could a woman who has worked since the age of fifteen caring for sick people have made such preposterous plans to become the target of a prejudiced, sexist and unjust society? The journalist suggested that women themselves were more sexist than men. And he cited several examples of comments posted on social networks. For the first time in weeks, Nina cracked a smile when it came to something connected to the internet.

This open debate on the newspaper's online page generated thousands of positive comments. Norwegian women had a different culture from many women around the world. They were financially independent, and the most cherished motto in Norway was: Likestilling! Which means "equal rights!" Referring to men and women. The laws in Norway worked more severely than other countries in the world. You couldn't verbally abuse another person, literally. Almost nowhere in the world was it said that this was allowed, but in Norway people did report to the police and the offender had to pay a fine.

Everything there was stricter, including the rights of animals, children and the elderly. It was not allowed to walk with alcohol in the street. If someone was caught urinating in the street: fine! And it was precisely in Norway that Nina found support from women ahead of her time. Empowered women and men who respected that empowerment as a whole. Nina felt welcomed when she read many of the thoughts and comments of those people who lived in the same country as her.

Nina's life was no longer a secret to anyone. In addition to his thousands of photos from his years of experience having been opened and exposed to the public, photos from his childhood to the present day, journalists in Brazil and around the world have also reviewed his history, his past, and his family's life. Although there are claims that in Brazil everything becomes a carnival, not only the gossip channels on TV, but also the youtubers channels around the world have not forgiven! Turns and moves were exposing more and more everything that had ever been exposed. After all, they had material for months of gossip.

There was a saying in Brazil that Brazilians lost a friend, but they didn't miss a joke, but actually it was like that with the rest of the world too. Nina felt it on her skin, she had become the woman of the memes. Each photo of her came with a text that circulated with the most diverse feelings. It was almost like a jungle, all for the audience! Nina refused lives all the time since her private life was taken by force.