Jesus Christ. Woman sues for heartbreak via Facebook:

Cheryl Gray says Wylie Iwan led her on, caused her to spend money on gifts and a trip to the Tri-Cities, then humiliated her when he posted vulgar comments on her Facebook wall.

The 50-year-old unemployed paralegal admits she was “devastated” and angry when a week before her planned trip, he said he met someone else at a Kennewick bar.

Now, “I feel foolish,” Gray said. “I’m not so much mad or angry. I feel foolish. I am disillusioned.”

Iwan says he and Gray were just Facebook friends who played Mafia Wars together, but the friendship developed into an online relationship. Still, he said, he told her she was welcome to visit during spring break as “my friend.”

When he met someone new, he said he was upfront with Gray about it and initially she was OK with it. But then, the 35-year-old who works at Applebee’s said, Gray started a hate group about him on Facebook and called him an online predator.

“I want this lady to move on and leave me alone,” said Iwan, who had to find an attorney in Michigan to represent him. “It’s a completely frivolous lawsuit.”

And the cruelest detail of all:

Iwan said he wanted nothing to do with Gray “after she had done all her crazy stuff, after she created a hate group about me.” He said he even disabled his Facebook account and stopped playing Mafia Wars because “she took all the fun away from that game.”

Read the whole thing here. FROWNY-FACE.

Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more....

9 replies on “Is This the Saddest Story Ever Written?”

  6. an all-too familiar story, i’m afraid. neither one of them picked up the others’ signals. she wanted the fairy tale: he just wanted to play mafia wars.it happens quite a lot with middle-aged, divorced women who play everquest or world of warfare, or whatever the kids are into nowadays. an online relationship starts with a younger man, and pretty soon they’re talking for hours on Skype and declaring their undying love. when she suggests meeting in person, the guy abruptly disappears from the interwebs, and her voice mails go unanswered. some assholes even fake their own deaths, just to twist the knife. women, listen up: don’t believe a man who says he loves you before you’ve even met in person, and don’t spend a fuckin’ DIME on them.

  7. And this is why socializing on Facebook is a sign of being socially retarded.

    Meet people in the real world; not cyber land!

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