Regarding the letter, no this letter is a separate issue.
The letter being referred to by spillingthetea24 is a letter that Simone and Trent had a good, trusting friend write to confirm that Simone had been donating, when others said she had not. This person, in a position of high trust, wrote a letter saying that Simone had been donating during the period before June 2020. Simone then used this letter, and possibly still continues to use it, to convince businesses of her innocence. Trent convinced the person to write the letter by saying that Simone was so upset by the donations situation and potentially losing her career as an influencer, that she was possibly going to have a miscarriage (Simone was pregnant with Asher at this time). The trusting friend wrote the letter believing in Simone’s innocence and was absolutely devastated when the Herald article came out that evening or the next day which printed part of Makaia Carr’s legal statement that there were no donations before June 2020.
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