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During a three-part special examining the crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer that aired in November on “Dr. Phil,” Phil McGraw, the host of the daytime talk show, played a TikTok video of a 27-year-old woman named Stanzi Potenza as evidence that true-crime fandom had gone too far. In the video, Potenza said she was so obsessed with Netflix’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” that she stayed home from work in diapers to binge the series uninterrupted.

As it turns out, Potenza had made a video satirizing true-crime obsessives – and McGraw mistook it as sincere.

Potenza is a cringe comic and actor who describes herself as a “sketch comedian from hell.”