Last week, Lance Armstrong gave up his fight against doping charges. For two years, Mike Anderson was Armstrong’s personal assistant, during the height of his racing career. Anderson’s story, published by Outside magazine, makes you wonder.
Read My life with Lance Armstrong, on OutsideOnline.com.
Interestingly, Sally Jenkins, a columnist for the Washington Post who co-wrote Lance Armstrong’s book (It’s Not About the Bike), rode to Armstrong’s defense. She wrote, “Lance Armstrong is a good man. There’s nothing that I can learn about him short of murder that would alter my opinion on that.” Jenkins is also the sportswriter who originally believed Joe Paterno when he said he didn’t know that Jerry Sandusky had been accused of molesting a child.
Link to Mike Anderson story provided by a Lovefraud reader.
This is a great topic and the responses have been so interesting and informative.
I am from the same city where Lance lives. I have always felt like he was “too good to be true”. I do believe this is one of the RED flags about spaths. Isnt it?
As far as degrees of psychopathy – I do believe there is because we all have not dated/married someone like Hitler. However, I did found out after my ex husband moved out and into his new GF’s house(guest bedroom-yikes) that he had been lying on our taxes. So, I am wondering how many of the “non-criminal” pscyhopaths are really non criminial?
They fly under the radar on everything else, so why not actually breaking our state and federal laws? They are really adept at the moral inepititude so what keeps someone with NO conscience from the rest? I think we may be splitting hairs on this one.
I was shocked when I learned the truth about my ex husband, but then to realize that he already was morally corrupt – what would be his” boundary” when there are NONE?
Sheryl Crow hauled ass for a reason. She has not said a word about this recent debaucle with her former boyfriend and she never will.
AND WHY IS THAT? ( about Sheryl Crow) Why is she not talking? This guy is really a piece of crap…he fooled everyone with his good guy mask
Hope, the “non-criminal” ones are usually DISHONEST in “some” way or form.
That is why I have decided that I will A) be totally honest myself and B) not have anything to do with ANYONE who shows the least sign of being dishonest, irresponsible or crooked
I have been around several HIGH LEVEL psychopaths, including my biological father and my son, both killers…My p sperm donor killed but never went to prison for it. He gloried in killing and getting away with it…and I have been around other “non criminal” psychopaths but every one I knew was DIS-honest in some way and I saw that about them but didn’t kick them to the curb the FIRST SIGN of dishonesty I just thought “well, that’s not too bad” but IT IS BAD.
I realize that psychopaths lure us in. Like Lance’s personal assistant knew he was doping but didn’t quit immediately, he let Lance’s fame and h is High paying job with Lance keep him silent, so dishonest by knowing and keeping his own mouth shut up until Lance screwed him. What??? Did he think Lance would dope and be dishonest and cheat on his wife and treat her like shiat and then keep his word to him?
If they will screw someone else or be dishonest withothers they will screw you and be dishonest with you.
It is like the woman (or man) who has an affair with a married man or woman and then thinks the person will leave their previous spouse and be FAITHFUL TO THEM. LOLROTFLMAO
I found out that my X boy friend had cheated on his wife for the entire 32 years they were married until she could prove it and toss his butt out (she suspected but didn’t know for sure) and I thought YEA, AND HE WILL BE TOTALLY FAITHFUL TO ME…..boy, was I stoooooopid! LOL ROTFLMAO
It finally dawned on me that he was cheating on me from the get go as well….even introducing me at one point to a woman he had slept with that day.
No, all psychopaths are not “criminals” by meaning they have committed a felony, but many have and gotten away with it. But, some never cross the line into felonies, but i f a person is dishonest do you want them in your life? MY ANSWER NOW IS ABSOLUTELY NOT! NO WAY JOSE! I pay every cent of taxes I owe and I expect everyone else to do the same. .I ran my business to take full advantage of every LEGAL thing I could to keep taxes low, but I paid the rest I owed.
Not all psychopaths are physically violent either, but many are or are CAPABLE of violence in the right circumstances.
Google “steve Nunn, Kentucky” and you will find a former goovernor candidate and the son of a governor who killed his girlfriend. His father who was a governor was I think probably HIGH IN P TRAITS if not a full blown P himself. (he was a wife beater at least) so many psychopaths and people high in P traits rise high in the business and political world as well as sports world like Lance Armstrong.
hairellen,
she’s scared.
is it a coincidence she got cancer after being with him?
toxic people disrupt our immune systems, just like they disrupt their own.
I think she doesn’t want to get into a fight in the media. It’s not worth it. Anyway, his mask is slipping without her help.
The truth always makes it’s way into the light…
Skylar, spot-the-hell-ON. Show of virtual Survivors’ hands: who has been diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder?!
Of couse, she’s scared – weren’t we all? And, another show of virtual Survivors’ hands: who did not suffer severe ramifications/fallout when they tried to “out” the spaths?
In my fantasty of vengeance, I see the exspath in his gimp suit on the front page with a bold banner headline reading, “Necrophiliac Commits Federal Fraud In Long Con,” with every forged document and draft he ever wrote, along with details of his deviant activities.
In reality, I am walking away without an act of vengeance or attempt to “out” him for what he is. As OxD posted in another thread, “So by their own actions will you know them.”
My energies are too important for my survival and recovery to waste on waging any campaign of vengeance on the exspath.
Brightest blessings
A year or so ago, I came across a website called http://www.justnotsaid.blogspot.com, written by John Craig. He writes about different topics, but has a definite interest in sociopathy, going so far as “outing” some of them, declaring them as spaths. He has written articles about Bill Clinton, Lance Armstrong, Jesse Jackson, Tammy Wynette, etc. His article about Lance Armstrong was written in November 2010 (Sociopath alert: Lance Armstrong), giving the reasons why he thinks that Lance is a spath. It was just a matter of time before the public learned the truth about this particular celebrity.
I wonder what effect long term use of performance enhancing drugs has had on Lance Armstrong’s mind and behaviors.
Hi DawnG,
My friend is an ex pro cyclist. He would come home and tell me stories of Armstrong’s Narcissitic actions/behaviors, several years prior to his use of PED’s. He is a Narc., whether the drugs have altered his state of mind/brain function, or not… just an FYI.
One of his former teammates (and that teammate’s wife) says he admitted doping to his doctor way back in ’96 when he was diagnosed with cancer. That’s a long time to be injecting yourself with steroids, hormones, and all that other stuff. There’s no doubt in my mind he was a narcissistic a-hole way back in the day. It seems the older he got, the more success achieved, the more controlling and weird he became. He’s a Tiger Woods, micromanaging his own reputation with an army of lawyers. (And they’re like Scientologists — viciously smearing anyone who dares to criticize. )