‘Unhealthy Vegan’ star Sarma Melngailis slams Netflix

Sarma Melngailis is accusing Netflix of “mocking” the “psychological abuse” she allegedly suffered by the hands of her ex-husband, Anthony Strangis.

The previous couple is on the middle of the streamer’s four-part docuseries “Unhealthy Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.,” which premiered earlier this month.

Melngailis ran vegan sizzling spot Pure Meals and Wine in Manhattan earlier than she went on the run together with her then-spouse in 2015 after they stole almost $2 million from buyers and workers.

The couple was arrested the next 12 months, with Melngailis, 49, subsequently sentenced to 4 months in jail.

She filed for divorce from Strangis, 41, in 2018, claiming he abused her and coerced her into the crimes.

The glamorous blond — who has been dubbed the “vegan Bernie Madoff” — participated within the new Netflix documentary, however she clearly isn’t proud of the completed product, taking to Instagram to slam the streamer in a meaty submit on Tuesday.

“There are extra essential issues occurring on this planet than the misrepresentation of *my* story, however I’ll proceed to talk out in objection to the mocking of psychological abuse by Netflix and the misportrayal of those sorts of tales basically,” Melngailis fumed.

She shared two pictures — one in every of a Netflix promo exhibiting her as a “glamorous villain,” and the opposite, a selfie exhibiting her with mascara smudged throughout her face.

“Me wanting like a glamorized villain consuming a money salad will not be me,” she declared. “It might assist Netflix sensationalize the story, however at my expense, and on the expense of a higher understanding of the bigger subject together with #coercivecontrol, #narcisssisticabuse, #cultmindcontrol and extra.”

Melngailis additionally linked to a letter on her private weblog, which she alleges she wrote to Strangis in 2016, following their arrest for fraud.

The Put up has reached out to Netflix for remark.

Within the prolonged letter, she accuses Strangis — whom she calls Mr. Fox — of psychological abuse and of brainwashing her into believing he might make her beloved pet canine, Leon, immortal.

“All the things is gone – the restaurant, the model, my house, my work, my workers, my clients, even all my issues: garments, papers, recordsdata, pictures, everything. Additionally, my integrity. And scariest of all for me: my independence,” she wrote within the letter.

Melngailis added that Strangis made her “drunk with false hope,” saying he might ship her “eternal youth” and that pet pooch Leon could be “by her aspect perpetually.”

“You figured me out — what would work on me. You reeled me in, then received me trapped by borrowing cash you’d promise to repay. Solely a bit of at first, however that was the hook,” she continued. “I needed to be repaid, so I’d allow you to again in. I’d allow you to again into my house after I’d resolved to don’t have anything to do with you once more since you had been telling me you had money to pay me again.”

Melngailis then wrote: “Then one way or the other you’d pull some insane mind-f–kery and would find yourself borrowing extra. How that occurred, I don’t even know. Why did I provide you with extra? How did that occur? How did you try this?”

Within the letter, the blond additionally alleges that Strangis took management of her Gmail account, contacting a few of her well-known purchasers — together with Alec Baldwin — to ask to borrow money.

“Begging Alec for a couple of thousand {dollars} as ME? Writing all that s–tty and past humiliating stuff from MY e-mail, so these folks assume they’re speaking to me?” she wrote.

Baldwin was a daily at Melngailis’ Pure Meals and Wine, the place he famously met his now-wife, Hilaria, again in 2010.

Tuesday’s Instagram submit isn’t the primary time Melngailis has hit out at her portrayal within the Netflix doc.

Final week, she slammed the ending of the sequence, claiming it implied she nonetheless talks to her ex.

“The ending of ‘Unhealthy Vegan’ is disturbingly deceptive; I’m not in contact with Anthony Strangis,” she wrote. “I didn’t need to marry him, and that a part of the story was inaccurately condensed.”

She additionally wrote a separate weblog submit discussing the way in which she was manipulated by Strangis, saying: “There was no precise gun to my head so it will likely be stated that in fact I had a alternative. I get that. Nevertheless, the response that I should be loopy and/or silly is a straightforward, reductive one. I’m not silly and I’m not loopy. I am humiliated and shamed by all of the injury prompted, however have been working to rebuild a powerful basis of self-reliance and self-awareness.”

Melngailis and Stangis disappeared after she repeatedly didn’t pay her workers in 2014 and 2015. The 2 had been arrested in Could 2016 after ordering a non-vegan Domino’s pizza to the Tennessee motel room the place they had been hiding out.

Melngailis pleaded responsible to fees of grand larceny, legal tax fraud and a scheme to defraud buyers in trade for 5 years’ probation and 4 months in jail, which she served at Rikers in summer season 2017.

Strangis pleaded responsible to 4 counts of grand larceny within the fourth diploma and was sentenced to at least one 12 months in jail and 5 years’ probation, in addition to having to pay $840,000 in restitution to buyers. It’s unknown the place he’s now.