Ashley Grills finally speaks out about Megan Meier suicide
April 1, 2008 by ElfNinosMom
Ashley Grills, the mysterious 18-year-old employee of Lori Drew, has finally spoken out about her involvement in the fake “Josh Evans” MySpace persona which instigated 13-year-old Megan Meier to commit suicide.
Grills told “Good Morning America” today (video below) that she, Drew, and Drew’s daughter had come up with ways to find out what Megan was saying about Drew’s daughter, and finally decided upon a fake MySpace account.
Grills has admitted that she made the MySpace, with the approval of Lori Drew, and that she sent the final message telling Megan Meier, “the world would be a better place without you”, explaining that she was trying to end the “relationship” because she felt that the joke had gone too far.
“I was trying to get her angry so she would leave him alone and I could get rid of the whole MySpace,” Grills said.
What Grills did not know, and would not know until after Megan had committed suicide, is that Megan was depressed and suicidal …. and that Lori Drew knew it even before the hoax, but hid that information from her.
“[Lori Drew] had then finally mentioned that Megan was depressed and suicidal. She says, ‘And maybe we pushed her overboard.’”
Grills insists that, despite Lori Drew’s claims to the contrary, Drew did indeed actively participate in the MySpace ruse, from beginning to end, and that she also sent messages to Meier, thus confirming the original police report on the matter in which Drew admitted that involvement. Drew later stated that the police recorded the incident incorrectly, once the story hit national news, but few believed her.
More chillingly, Grills revealed the extent to which Lori Drew, a 47-year-old mother, was willing to go to humiliate a 13-year-old girl who she knew to be not only seriously depressed, but also suicidal.
“She [Megan Meier] was wanting to meet him [the fake "Josh Evans"] … and me and Lori’s daughter were both telling Lori that we thought it was going too far ’cause none of us can meet her, none of us are guys,” Grills said.
“And she [Lori Drew] was like, it’s fine, you know, we can set her up. We can have her go meet him at the mall and go there and just laugh at her, and I thought that was wrong.”
After she heard Meier had hung herself, Grills said, “I was in shock. I just — I went back and Curt [Lori Drew's husband] was yelling at us to get rid of the MySpace, so we did that. And then I just sat down and didn’t say anything.”
“I thought it was my fault,” Grills said.
Here is the part of the interview with Ashley Grills which appeared on television.
Perhaps Grills’ testimony will push local officials into finally filing charges against Lori and Curt Drew, for destruction of evidence, impeding an official investigation, and child abuse. We can only hope.
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Source: ABC News
Bullying, suspicion, envy, jealousy…. secrets. Whatever happened to treating people like human beings?
SHE’S ( DREW) A BITCH AND A LOW LIFE WHO HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN TO DESTROY THE YOUNG GIRLS LIFE BY ACTING LIKE AN ANIMAL HERSELF. SHE’S AN EVIL BITCH AND SHE SHOULD PAY.
Unfortunately, we don’t know all the details. This young Megan sounds like she had serious mental problems. She committed suicide over a boy she didn’t even know? Where were her parents? Are they not monitoring the computer activities of a 13 year old? Not blaming the parents, but all parents need to realize these are young kids and cannot be left to themselves and unsupervised. I have friends who do myspace checks every day! Lori Drew acted very immature in dealing with this girl, but suicide! Cyber bullying has become a serious problem among teens. This happens everyday and no one seems to care. It is terrible at my child’s school. She has told me about horrible things that people have done to others…creating “groups” that say “Why I hate so-in-so” where students write in hateful things. I mentioned to a teacher that I had heard about this and she was shocked. Our school is a very upper class school…oh my, this cannot possible happen here. Our heads are in the sand! Parents step up and monitor your children. Get your children help if they have problems. I supect Megan probably was talking trash about the Drew’s daughter and Lori Drew decided to step in very immaturly having no idea of the consequences.
Traci,
Megan’s mother DID monitor all her online chats. On the morning of that horrible day, she told Megan to get off the computer (but she had a dentist appt. and had to leave). Megan continued the confrontation with Josh and when Megan’s mom got home she closed down the computer and told Megan to go to her room (Megan had been using quite a bit of bad language in her rage at “josh’s” comments). It was a short time later that the parents found Megan hanging in her closet near death.
I think the parent were actually more involved then most. Most parents just leave the compute to the kids and walk away. I don’t think there was much Megan’s mom could have done to prevent this. The truth is that this little group of evil doer that Lori Drew put together should have never done this BS, but they did and Megan is dead.
I have heard Ashley speak and I believe she is truly sorry for what happened but all I hear from Lori Drew is denial and lies. I hope the state of Ca. gets her for something. She deserves some time in jail for what she did!
Traci’s willingness to blame a troubled 13 year old victim and her parents is sad to say the least. Any 47 year old that deliberately inflicts this kind of pain on a child is a sadistic monster, whether that child kills herself or not. She asks “Where were her parents?” without seeing the irony of Mrs. Drew being a parent herself. She should better ask where is Mrs. Drew’s HUMANITY? Even if she didn’t know the child would kill herself she was well aware that the words were hateful and cruel. She deliberately hurt that child and it is incredible that Traci brushes it off with “we don’t know all the details”. Regardless of whether a group of teenagers are dissing each other, this Drew person deliberately tried to hurt that girl. What other details are required to determine that there are NO circumstances that would make what she did anything less than an act of extreme cruelty? Are our “very upper class schools” not even teaching the difference between right and wrong or that Traci does not know that an adult deliberately hurting a child is wrong regardless of the circumstances? I also see the irony of my castigating Traci’s view of life but I worry… are these schools turning out more people like Mrs. Drew who lack basic human compassion for others?
There is evil in this world. Lori Drew is the personification of that evil. Without conscience, she hurt a vulnerable young girl to the point she felt her life was not worth living.
What kind of animal could do that? Only a heartless, selfish, evil, immature devil. Lori Drew is that devil.
And, Traci, what kind of person would try and find justification or rationalize that kind of behavior? How would you feel if someone did the same to your child?
“I was trying to get her angry so she would leave him alone and I could get rid of the whole MySpace,” Grills said.
thats crap!!!! all she had to do was hit DELETE then YES to really delete the profile, ive done it myself. She didnt have to try to make megan angry at this josh profile, if she had just deleted it then megan would be alive today, she and the drews need to be tried for murder and punished accordingly in my opinion.Grills is trying to cover her own a$$, they KNEW megan was batteling depression and on meds, that combined with teenage hormones is a lethal combination.