Eric Lamaze Submits Forged Medical Documents to Court

[Virginia_Horse_Mom]

@eclipse

People that fake cancer are the lowest slime…. As someone that’s had breast cancer I just …… I’m beyond angry!

Ditto.

I remember the case of the college football star, Manti T’eo, from approximately ten years ago. He had an incredible senior year at Notre Dame and won all sorts of awards, and the press had been following a story that he had a girlfriend who was dying of cancer. He dedicated one of his final winning performances to her and received all sorts of sympathy and praise.

Guess what? It vs was a hoax. The girlfriend didn’t exist.

In the aftermath, a story came out that “the girlfriend” was some crazy guy online who had duped a naïve T’eo. I don’t know though. T’eo got some exceptionally good publicity right up until the hoax was discovered. I think he went on to have his image somewhat rehabilitated and to play in the NFL.

Anyway… people who fake cancer diagnosis for completely selfish or pathological or bizarre reasons… all so they can soak up sympathy and support that they don’t deserve? Karma will get them eventually. Lamaze definitely enjoyed quite a bit of sympathy and support for his “cancer” diagnosis…. What a scumbag.

Here’s a report on the weird T’eo story.

Existence, death of Te'o girlfriend called a hoax

[LSBC]

I guess the difference is that nobody duped Eric into thinking they had cancer… he made it up himself and got all sorts of good publicity from it. Manti T’eo was a case of him just not doing his research and investing everything in an online relationship (which people do with relative degrees of success). I remember when all of that went down.

[Virginia_Horse_Mom]

Yup.

It’s the aspect of all the great sympathetic publicity they got from a faked cancer diagnosis that really bugs me. Here’s a report from the Toronto Sun back in March of 2022 on Lamaze retiring because he was “battling cancer”… they have a long statement from him in it. Only a completely pathological human could fake something like this.

https://torontosun.com/sports/olympics/great-sadness-olympian-show-jumper-eric-lamaze-retires-as-he-battles-cancer/wcm/3a796160-f596-43b5-a5ca-99d9aca3d363/amp/

“It’s with great sadness that I am making this decision,” he announced on his Torrey Pines stable website. “There’s a part of me that feels really upset that I’ve been battling cancer with the hope of riding again and I’m crushed that that won’t be the case. I’ve always said that I will retire under my own terms when the time is right. The situation with my health has forced me to make the decision earlier than I had envisioned, but the silver lining is that I still have the will to win and can contribute to the Canadian team and the sport I love through my new role as chef d’equipe.

“Now I have to turn my focus to giving my knowledge back to my fellow riders. I’ve always loved teaching and preparing horses and riders for major championships. I will give these riders every opportunity I ever had myself and I have great ideas for the future. I want every Canadian rider to know that their dreams are my dreams, too. When they win, I win.”

[vxf111]

I think she is. I have never heard a bad word about her and in several instances she’s publicly done the right thing when she didn’t have to which I think reflects pretty well on her character.

I cannot image lying about having cancer to avoid legal proceedings. I just can’t. That’s truly cruel and selfish behavior.

[Pehsness]

@crackerjack

You will, I’m sorry. Although a brilliant rider obviously… eta brilliant riders- plural.

I’m out. Back to AQHA and Dressage where no one ever does anything bad.

( to Captain Canada )

[2bayboys]

@Pehsness

@crackerjack

You will, I’m sorry. Although a brilliant rider obviously… eta brilliant riders- plural.

I’m out. Back to AQHA and Dressage where no one ever does anything bad.

Sarcasm right?

[BostonHJ]

My grandfather died when he was 55 of this cancer - it’s not a good death.

This interview from 2020 read in hindsight… … he wasn’t even attempting to make the lies believable. No one on earth has an artificial kidney. This is not how one ends chemo. This is making it sound like he had a serious painkiller addiction and probably lied to someone about why he was on them, realized they bought they lie and it was a “get out of jail free card” and kept telling it.

"His doctors discovered that his kidney was the main problem in his recovery. It was infected and releasing toxins into his body that also affected his heart. He was given an artificial kidney that is controlled by a computer. This is a rare operation but given he had few options – he was told he was too weak to survive a traditional transplant – he said he felt better almost immediately.

As for his prognosis, Lamaze didn’t want to talk too much about it at this stage. He tries to train every day, but he says his next challenge will be weaning off of the drugs that have kept him alive and out of pain. “The tumor is very much under control, basically at this point they would like me to gain weight and try to cut the medication and see if the old Eric will come back,” he says. “But when they cut all the drugs that were keeping me getting up and smiling, that is the hardest thing to do. [I’m] going to live in a dark world for a while but if I succeed then I have a chance to rebuild my body without medication and start being who I am versus a person taking drugs to stay alive.”

Lamaze knows he will need help, including with depression that accompanies such a drug withdrawal."

[Pehsness]

@2bayboys

Sarcasm right?

OMG yes!!

[Virginia_Horse_Mom]

Wow. Do you have a link to who published this nonsense from 2020? ETA… never mind, I just clicked on the link and realized it was Horse Sport as well. This is utterly disgusting, and an insult to people who really are struggling with kidney disease and failure, as well as the real side effects from various cancer treatments.

My heart goes out to anyone who has lost a loved one to glioblastoma or any other cancer. I went through advanced breast cancer over a decade ago… which stunk… but I am alive and doing well. With that said, it took me years to put my body halfway back together after a lot of chemo, radiation and surgery… and I only ride at a low level. I’m happy to be alive and living a full life though - God is good. But reading this guy’s blatant BS is annoying.

[crackerjack]

@Pehsness

I’m out. Back to AQHA and Dressage where no one ever does anything bad.

( to Captain Canada )

Every time I hear “Captain Canada” I strain my eyeball muscles as they roll so far back in my head.

[Trekkie]

For every addict who has lied, conned, cheated and stolen their way through life there are plenty of real life people who have suffered actual illnesses and diseases-- mental and physical-- who maybe are not so public with their suffering but who people may not be as sympathetic to because of the many con artists who manipulate falsehoods for sympathy and support. These real people are the actual victims. Addicts like Eric Lamaze seems to be harm the general trust and goodwill of people–they destroy a fabric of truth upon which we all rely, and their web of manipulation is so widespread and deceitful it is unconscionable. To me, this behavior is sociopathic and beyond toxic. No amount of “help” can change the core of people like this. I have no sympathy for him or anyone who stood by him knowing the truth of this situation. I hope it all becomes widely public and he is disgraced and never supported again.

[Paint_Party]

@EmilyM

Unreal. As if the horse dealings alone were not slimy enough.

Just when it seemed like he couldn’t sink any lower, he did. Forging medical documents and faking a devastating cancer in attempt to garner sympathy and weasel out of a court judgement? Just. Wow.

[Pehsness]

@crackerjack

Every time I hear “Captain Canada” I strain my eyeball muscles as they roll so far back in my head.

Outside of cleaning stalls in a mid-end H/J barn for a brief period I’ve never been anywhere near this world - but man oh man I used to love to watch him go in the 90’s! This was before I understood the horse world was actually quite shite, lol.

[fordtraktor]

Never heard anything negative about Beezie herself, but her main sponsors, the Wexners, have well-established ties to Jeffrey Epstein. That’s a dirty little secret for sure.

[Davignport]

I always loved to watch Eric and Hickstead and was gutted for him when Hickstead passed the way he did. Thinking that he could fake brain cancer, is beyond hard to comprehend. Cheating people on horse sales is bad enough, but faking cancer. Wow!

[Ponyplusaninch]

I have a lot of mixed feelings about the Wexners (a lot of good done; a lot of ick too).

But in Beezie we trust. I think she’s the only hero of mine left standing who hasn’t done something utterly repugnant to humans or horses. And her and John’s horse management is just #goals.

I’m disgusted reading about about Lamaze. The lawyer hit it on the head saying he was sick (but maybe not with cancer).

[Sticky_Situation]

Yikes.

Struggling with substance use doesn’t make you a terrible person. I’m willing to look past that.

Cheating wealthy people on overpriced horses that don’t live up to expectations … not a great look.

But pretending to have cancer? WTF. Did he think no one would ever realize he’s lying?

I remember hearing a while back that he was stepping back from competition because of some sort of brain cancer, and thinking it was unfortunate, but I don’t think I’d ever heard much more than that. But there is sooo much sketchiness that seems to be coming to light that I’m surprised it took this long to be questioned. A computer-controlled artificial kidney? Random forged physician letters from Belgium? Surely if he wants to prove he’s got cancer he’s had some imaging done that would be more convincing than a random letter written in Dutch.

[Trekkie]

@Sticky_Situation

Struggling with substance use doesn’t make you a terrible person. I’m willing to look past that.

Agree. But this pathology goes far beyond that, I think. People who are willing to lie, cheat, steal and con a multitude without thinking about the possibility of massive harm are not your average person struggling with substance abuse.

[Rel6]

Not to mention Beezie is riding and living with an actual brain tumor…

[hoopoe]

implantable artificial kidneys are research stage but some say by the next decade they may be a reality