Brandon Truaxe built the hugely profitable cosmetics empire Deciem — and then plunged it into chaos before his tragic death
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A few weeks before he died, Truaxe contacted the National Post from a psychiatric hospital in the United Kingdom, in response to an email. Sober, cogent and alert after a week detained in hospital, he offered to explain how it came to this., posed a journalistic challenge, which is shared in this latest episode of the podcast True Crime Byline.Article content
Here was a major financial and cultural news story in which the primary source, and primary subject, was clearly mentally ill, detained on a psychiatric hold with a presumptive diagnosis of bipolar disorder. He had a psychotic episode, but denied he was even sick. In “Out of the Ordinary: The Tragic Story of Brandon Truaxe,” reporter Joseph Brean discusses the ethical challenges posed by mentally ill subjects and sources, who deserve to be heard in newsworthy moments as anyone else does, but also have a unique vulnerability as a risk to themselves and their own interests.
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