Teen Mom OG star Farrah Abraham took to her podcast Farrah & Friends last week to allege that an Uber driver tried to rape her on a 2 a.m. ride on Long Island in January last year.
In her version of events, on-again-off-again boyfriend Simon Saran came to her aid when it happened: “My non-boyfriend threw him in the window and almost broke his car window.” Abraham then went on to say that after the police had arrived, “The Persian dude ran after me. The cops were like, ‘You’re harassing her’ and I was like, ‘See I told you!’ and then I went to bed.”
Uber responded back by saying no such incident occurred, and added that Farrah and Simon actually instigated the whole thing, and added that Farrah’s been banned from the service. “We have no record of a complaint from a rider on this trip ever reporting any incident like this,” Uber spokesman Matt Wing told Page Six. “Her rider account was banned because an Uber driver-partner reported that a friend traveling with her dumped their alcoholic drink on the front seat of the partner’s car.”
Shortly after Farrah’s story hit the media, she rescinded, clarifying that while the driver did not attempt to rape her, he “was looking me up and down.” Adding to her story, she explained that though she ordered the car to pick her up from her hotel, the driver asked her to walk to his car a little down the road. “It could have escalated into a rape situation,” she added.
We can’t help but be disappointed in the way Farrah handled the situation. There are so many women whose stories are not taken seriously, or whose assaulters are never brought to justice—so to have a high-profile woman go on record with a blatant lie is certainly not helping how society handles the rape crisis.