After we exposed Rachael Wright as a cancer faker, the family of Chelsea Goldberg, a 28 year old leukemia patient, was extremely angry with people who dared to fake cancer on the internet.
NOTE: Chelsea’s blog has been deleted. Luckily, we saved it and you can read it here. Her personal blog was also deleted and it will be linked as well.
Harsh, but understandable. After all, Chad is Chelsea’s twin brother and he’s stood by her side as she fought leukemia, had a kidney and a pancreas removed and several scary bouts with sepsis in the hospital. Chad and Chelsea’s other siblings Matt, Lindsay, Annabelle, Ryan, and Tanner document Chelsea’s illness with humor and the support they give her is touching to read about. Chelsea also maintains her own Tumblr and she’s funny and foul mouthed and inspirational as she deals with the curve ball that life threw at her.
Except it’s fake.
This picture of Chelsea’s scar from her tumor removal in 2012 was actually taken in 2003.
This picture of her platelet infusion was stolen from the cancer blog of a woman fighting Multiple Myeloma.
Take a close look at this picture from Chelsea’s blog.
Now compare it to this picture, posted by a real life cancer patient.
Yes, Chelsea photoshopped her face over the patient’s face, took away the color and cropped the picture so it would be more difficult to prove it fake.
Here’s another one.
Now, from the same cancer patient as above.
Since this faker went to the trouble of trying to manipulate her images, I figured it wasn’t her first rodeo with faking cancer online. I was right.
Meet Chelsea.
A few years ago, Chelsea was a contributor to Joseph Gordon Levitt’s website for artists, hitRECord. She made a lot of friends on the site and they were all devastated when she announced she had cancer. A friend from the site recorded this video of Chelsea talking about her illness. Then, they gave her support as she shaved her head and posed for pictures afterwards.
Chelsea was caught plagiarizing art on hitRECord and she deleted her account, her Twitter and her Tumblr. Then, her ex husband contacted her friends from hitRECord and let them know she didn’t have cancer at all. A few calls to hospitals where she was supposedly a patient confirmed his story. Chelsea didn’t have cancer at all.
Here’s another blog Chelsea started to document imaginary cancer. She didn’t keep up with it.
How are we sure that Chelsea is behind Cheecha Kicks Cancer? Well, for one thing, Chelsea and Chad have the exact same birthday.
This is from the Goldberg’s Tumblr from January 16th.
And from Chelsea’s mother’s Facebook, also from January 16th.
Need more proof? Look at this picture, from Chelsea’s personal blog.
It was taken with an iPhone 4 and the location information pinpoints the place where it was taken. The home of Chelsea’s new fiancee.
Need even more proof? On October 13th, Chelsea wrote about finally teaching her parents how to use Skype. She included this picture.
Here’s Chelsea’s mother’s Facebook post from October 12th.
It looks like some people were on to Chelsea during her blogging life. The family posted about their cousin who had impersonated Chelsea online and raised a ton of money pretending to be someone with cancer.
As you can see from her old blog, Chelsea has used the handle “Cancer Girl” online. She also has two children and lives in another state, just like the “cousin” who was impersonating Chelsea. Did Chelsea raise $7500 with PayPal by pretending to be “Cancer Girl Problems” on Tumblr, Blogger and WordPress? If you have any information on this, I’d love to hear about it at warriorelihoax@gmail.com.