Jackie is clearly a pathological liar.
I think she is too. Or maybe she’s a mental case.
One thing I noticed in an earlier article, I think a WaPo one but not sure, was that Jackie said that she was taking medicine for migraines, and that’s why she knows she wasn’t drinking that night.
Well, I’ve looked up if migraines are a symptom of mental illness, and while that’s not necessarily true, they are often seen together. (I have a sister who often has migraines, and I think she has some sort of mental illness. I think she’s bipolar, but she refuses to tell me that she is being treated for only depression. Depression alone doesn’t explain her manic phases. I think she’s not completely honest with her therapist...yet.)
At any rate, Jackie has obviously made things up. My sister is the same way. She talks about things in the past in a very different way than I remember them. Like Jackie, I know that some of the things she has told me happened to other people in our family...not her.
So I think Jackie has made things up. They aren’t true, but she believes them.
As for her scars that Erdely says she saw, Jackie could easily have done those herself.