Hey, remember Taylor Chandler?
Didn’t think so.
In case you need a refresher, she’s the intersex woman who claimed to have engaged in a torrid love affair with Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps last November.
According to Chandler, she and Phelps initially connected on Tinder back in September 2014. She says she did not tell him she was intersex before they hooked up together.
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“One thing led to the next,” she said, “and we made love during halftime. Later, we had sex again. The intimacy with him was amazing! It was the first time in my life that someone has made me feel like a true woman.”
After going public with her story, Chandler teamed up with Vivid Entertainment to shoot a porno called Going For The Gold in which she fooled around with a Michael Phelps lookalike.
Now, about a month after Going For The Gold was released, it seems the 41-year-old entrepreneur has tried to kill herself.
It all start earlier this week, Howard Stern referred to Chandler as “some guy” on his show, prompting Chandler to launch into a angry tirade on Facebook.
“Shame on Howard Stern for perpetuating hate!” she wrote on Wednesday. “This is 2015 where addressing someone as ‘dude’ ‘he/she’ and ‘gross’ is unacceptable. It’s the same hate that fueled society to not want to believe that Michael could like me, be attracted to me, care for me, and want to be with me!”
Things only got worse after that. Because hours later, Phelps announced he was engaged to his long-time girlfriend, beauty queen Nicole Johnson.
Evidently, this was too much for Chandler to handle. Last night, she wrote the following cryptic tweet:
Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep. @MichaelPhelps
— Taylor L Chandler (@RealTayChaTLC) February 26, 2015
Then this morning, someone posted to her Twitter page that she tried to kill herself last night:
Taylor was almost successful in taking her own life last night. We ask that you keep her in prayer. — Taylor L Chandler (@RealTayChaTLC) February 26, 2015
A similar message was posted to her Facebook page:
No further details were given.
In all seriousness, we hope Chandler is alright and gets the help she clearly needs.
As for Phelps, he has not responded to any of the rumors involving his alleged tryst with Chandler.
UPDATE: The following message was posted to Chandler’s Facebook page this afternoon with an update on her condition:
MisterDemand
Save for her suicide attempt, i have little sympathy. Kissing and telling is trashy at best…
MisterDemand
@MisterDemand:
On second thought i dont feel bad for her at all. Most actual suicidal people don’t tweet out cryptic, hackneyed cliches before they take their own life or tell anyone at all. Tweeting Phelps directely is just embarrassing- as is having to inform the public of your own suicide attempt. Nowhere close to the behavoir of an actual vicitm of suicidial thoughts, but exactly the behavior of a pathetic attention whore.
demented
That’s unfortunate…
DarkZephyr
“In all seriousness, we hope Chandler is alright and gets the help she clearly needs.”
Then don’t post callous insensitive garbage like this Graham:
“Hey, remember Taylor Chandler?
Didn’t think so.”
@MisterDemand: Ugh. C’mon! What do you think lead her to be this way? She has probably been treated like shit most of her life! She probably wants some fucking love and tenderness in this f*cked up world.
cflekken
All a ruse for attention, if you ask me. She tweeted Phelps directly insinuating suicide, and he didn’t respond, so she posted about her own supposed attempted suicide. People like have seriously deep issues and do need help. But I’d bet $100 she didn’t try to kill herself.
demented
@DarkZephyr: And probably all the piled-up bad PR got to her eventually. If nothing else, it is a cry for help.
mcdfishfilla
wow.
ebendi
Agree with DarkZephyr. No one has any compassion anymore. It’s all a stupid popularity contest it seems and sports figures are so untouchable today that they can get away with anything, so long as it respects archaic gender norms and treats abberations of that with dismissal and contempt. The opening statements of this article about Taylor Chandler testify to the inhumanity of the world of entertainment today, which such supposed advocates as Queerty have turned into…. Remember her? I mean at least you respect her and address her by her personal gender identity? @MisterDemand: Hackneyed cliches? As if committing suicide and alerting the public first is so non-original? She tried to commit suicide but no one cares because she was so non-original…as if she was auditioning for a part in some reality show. Public reception to suicidal tendencies is sick.
Low Country Boy
@MisterDemand: I tend to agree.
ddean
Ok her 2 seconds are over… It’s sad she’s crazy is probably more of a headline to me. Cheer up sister there’s no need to go crazy because a 8 foot lizard with a 4 in pecker said something negative.
aliengod
Cry me a river! I have very little sympathy for guys who trick other guys into sex by pretending to be a woman. And to top it off, he then goes on Stern to tell the world intimate details about his sexual escapades with Phelps. Doubtful he really even attempted suicide. It all reeks of “Look at me! Look at me!”
ingyaom
Who’s using whom here (and what does “intersex” mean, anyway)? Apparently, this woman claims she had some kind of affair with MP (presumably false), then used that claim to make a porn movie with an MP look-alike (notice Michael’s initials on her shirt in the photo). I’d say that’s pretty trashy. She’s lucky MP isn’t suing her.
Realitycheck
@ingyaom:
Totally agree, but just in case….
another possibility, the entire story smells of schizophrenia,
individuals affected by it, create (in their own mind) and deeply
believe completely made up stories, no matter how crazy or unrealistic,
unfortunately there are no cure for schizophrenia.
Either way I have no sympathy for this person, what she/he is doing is wrong and I do not believe for half a second that MP would go out with such a creepy looking person, have you guys seen his “girls”.
RomanH
Flagging @aliengod. Queerty shouldn’t allow hate speech that attacks members of the LGBT community.
Captain Obvious
I feel like the majority of the internet is full of noobs who will literally get trolled by anything and everything. Even in 2002 people weren’t falling for this stuff anymore, it wouldn’t even have garnered any attention.
DarkZephyr
@Captain Obvious: I guess being white and intersex is funny to you Captain Obvious.
Realitycheck
@RomanH:
Roman, you could say aliengod is harsh but he is not in any way using hate
speech, otherwise we are at the point where no one can say anything about anything, there is such a thing a free speech and while we are free to do
as we please in our democratic society, others have the right to freely make comments.
aliengod
@RomanH: Hate speech? I don’t hate anyone! I’m not sure what you’re referring to.
DarkZephyr
@Realitycheck: he used @$$hole speech. He ALWAYS calls Transmen “she” and Transwomen “he” and he seems to think that intersex people fall under that same umbrella. But this woman was BORN intersex. She is biologically male AND female and likely has XXY chromosomes.
Ronbo
Taylor, mental health professionals can help you deal, keep your troubles private or others will prey on you.
Michael, I’m here if you need comforting.
Tracy Pope
@DarkZephyr: That part about intersex is the part that went completely over the heads of some. Then again, these are the type of people who would blame her for being born with XXY chromosomes.
While I think the whole thing is tragic, it does seem that Ms Chandler has other issues that have not been properly addressed. I cannot imagine the difficulties someone who is intersex must deal with.
Avery Alvarez
Threatening suicide to manipulate a former lover is emotional abuse. To do it in such a public way, to me, just screams “I want control over this situation!”
I agree with others. Ms. Chandler, please seek emotional help.
You can live a full, happy, fulfilling life, but this is not the way to do it.
MisterDemand
@ebendi:
Yes the whole child’s nursery rhyme was absurd and fake as was her breathless announcement and now update calling out Stern and Phelps.
I don’t believe she actually attempted to take her own life, but in the improbable reality that she did, her shameless, masturbatory, dramatic way she is choosing to promote the event only encourages the canard the actual suicidal people do it ‘for the attention’.
stanhope
@ddean: 8 foot lizard with a 4 inch pecker….now that’s the line of the week. LOL. There ain’t much in the front of those speed-whoes
covert
I wanna know the name of the Michael Phelps look-a-like in her porno. He’s fine.
covert
@covert: Nevermind! It’s Ty Rocerick. i just answered my own question.
Cam
This might be B.S. she’s already posting ads for other stuff and her movies on her facebook page, and was posting the next day. If it was a major suicide attempt she wouldn’t have been up and ready to actively post that soon I am assuming, as even a trip to the hospital and a stomach pump are going to keep you in there for 2 days or so.
jt5540
Nothing this person says can be believed. This all started with a leak to Hollywood Gossip that Chandler was with him the night of his DUI arrest. The problem was he was arrested at 2 in the morning and he was alone when he was taken to the station. The tape of him at the station was released. She then changed her story to “no what I really meant was the following night”. Problem was his mother and his sisters were with him the following night. No one other that Chandler seems to be able to confirm that he even knows her. My guess is she was the tipster.
She says she was forcefully outed because of the DUI and that “people” were digging into her past so she came clean. She followed that up with a “career move” from sign language to pornography. Really, Taylor, really? This from a person who says she did not want all that nasty horrible publicity. She has since granted interview after interview, showing that she is really avoiding all that publicity.
She has populated her facebook, twitter and insta accounts with pics of Phelps gotten from google. Yeah that’s how I get pics of my boyfriend, don’t you?
She has a pic that she posted that she says is Phelps in a towel at his house. She forgot he has tattoos on his hips and they are missing. Forgot the Photoshop I guess. She says that Phelps sent pics of his penis to a woman named Dana Shapiro and to prove it she showed a screen shot of a twitter of “Dana”. Guess what? There is no Dana Shapiro.
Her twitter account was initially populated with tons of fake followers. That was not hard to figure out.
She claims she was born intersex, and her birth certificate lists her as David Roy Fitch and she was raised as a boy until she had surgery to correct what she calls a birth defect. Problem is she appeared on the Maury Povich show in 1992 as David Roy Fitch, a male that was in the process of going through gender reassignment. Here is the link for your reading enjoyment: http://archive.poyi.org/items/show/20557
She was convicted of extortion and went to jail for that. She has used the names David Roy Fitch, Paige Whitney Daniels and Taylor Lianne Chandler.
On one of the dates she claims she was with Phelps, he was photographed by a fan with his real girlfriend, Nicole Johnson at the Apple store.
She has attacked his sister and his girlfriend with multiple phony social media accounts as well as in her own name.
She says that Phelps was in rehab in Colorado, in reality he was at the Meadows in Arizona.
This woman did not attempt suicide. This is just one more lie. Anyone who would harass a person just out of rehab does not deserve any sympathy.
jt5540
@Tracy Pope: She’s not intersex. The intersex condition she claims to be born with, no ovaries and no testes does not exist. She says she was on testosterone blockers. Why? If she had no gonads of either sex she would not even have the amount of testosterone that a WOMAN has let alone a man. She was actually born male and under went gender reassignment. She appeared on Maury Povich in 1992.
jt5540
@DarkZephyr: No she wasn’t. She was born male. She has been lying about that.
jt5540
@Captain Obvious: I agree with you Captain Obvious. It was obvious to me at first when this whole thing with her started.
jt5540
@ebendi: Because she is LYING. She has lied and lied about everything she has said since Phelps DUI. Phelps is the victim of a nutjob stalker. I am sure Chandler isn’t the first stalker he has had and won’t be the last. Chandler is just more twisted than most.
AnitaMann
She is crazy.
KEVINVENTION
@RomanH: You can’t be serious. Or maybe you can. Your misguided zealousness is unfortunate… 🙁
KEVINVENTION
@stanhope: Pretty sure the “lizard” being referred to is Howard Stern. Spot-0n, too… 😉
Puh-leeze
JT5540 is spot on with his/her wrap-up of the facts. I would like to add details of her alleged actions of this past week. (Why is everything with this woman alleged or supposed? Think about that.) Posting this info because it is vital to her character and she has deleted posts from her social media acounts. More proof of her manipulations, harrassment and potential libelous behavior. Bottom line – WITHIN 24 HOURS OF THIS ATTEMPT (her 19th?) SHE WAS BACK ONLINE back online, discussing Phelps, posting pics and promoting her new contract with Vivid entertainment to be a per-minute webcam porn participant.
Wed. Feb 25 @ 9 pm she posts the “Now I Lay Myself to Sleep” prayer twice. Tagged Michael Phelps in one. Seemed odd that there were no worrisome, reactionary posts from her “team” whom she frequently refers to. Nothing from her publicist, nothing from her friends.
Thurs. Feb 26 a.m. Posts announce that she had attempted suicide, was in hospital, asking for prayers. Followed up by another post which states a suicide note has been found and family feels it is beneficial to publicize. The note blames Michael Phelps and Howard Stern for her death.
WITHIN 18 HOURS of her attempt there is reposting activity on her social account promoting a radio show which she will be on
WITHIN 21 HOURS of her attempt she apologizes to her audience via social media that trying to take her life was wrong. She continues to post pic of Phelps, and continues to discuss him and Howard Stern, supposedly the ones she blames for her attempt.
Friday Feb 27 @ 2 a.m. She thanks her fans for their support. She was not kept at the hospital for psych evaluation.
NOW, WHAT MEDICAL FACILITY WOULD ALLOW HER ACCESS TO BEING ONLINE, IF THAT CONTRIBUTED TO HER TRYING TO KILL HERSELF? AFTER PAST SUICIDE ATTEMPTS, WHY IS SHE NOT KEPT FOR MEDICAL EVALUATION AND FOR HER OWN SAFETY? AS SOMEONE WHO POSTS CONTINOUS SELFIES AND TIMEHOP PHOTOS, WHY ARE THERE NO “SELFIES” OF HER IN THIS HOSPITAL, AS THERE WERE WHEN SHE PASSED OUT IN CVS SEVERAL WEEKS AGO? WHY NO ONLINE THANKS TO ANY OF HER SUPPORT SYSTEM, THE STAFF WHO HELPED SAVE HER LIFE?
Would a person twho tried to kill themselves be withdrawn, depressed and despondent for a while, or would they be back online continuing to poke the bear that was to blame for her attempt within one day? Would a person who truly tried to end their life post that the show must go on and act like nothing happened and continue to promote her pornography business? Would a person who tried to kill themselves be debating with “haters” within 24 hours of her failed attempt?
dinahmcc
I’m pretty sure this woman is schizophrenic, in addition to definitely being a money-grabbing self-serving extortion artist. But the fact that the Phelps team has NOT denied one single shred of what this woman says indicates to me that they must have actually hooked up. Silence is implied consent. Everything this woman ways is preposterous, internally inconsistent, self-piteous, ever-changing, bullying, libellous, etc. But WHY doesn’t Phelps say it never happened? It would take about 11 keystrokes to put an end to the rumors. The fact that he hasn’t is mind-boggling. I am a member of the swim community and it couldn’t possibly be more embarrassing to have the world’s most famous swimmer have such poor character as has been displayed in the past 5 months. It is also mind-boggling that his adoring REAL girlfriend (& now Fiance!) is willing be thrust into the middle of all this. She has God-like forgiveness skills & I hope she isnt going to be asked to sign a pre-nup because she’s earned whatever divorce payout might be in the future. I hope they DON’T ever get divorced, because Phelps apparently needs a full time babysitter.
dinahmcc
@jt5540: I agree that she’s a button stalker, probably guilty of breaking federal law & co u of be used. But why doesn’t Phelps just deny that he hooked up with her? Silence is implied consent.
dinahmcc
…federal law & could be sued…..not used.
Puh-leeze
Michael Phelps is not allowing this scheme to interfere with his training. Letting his mgmt team handle various legal issues. This is a complicated case involving several federal laws. His interfering and bringing more attention to this woman will be a bigger distraction to his competition and would not be fair to his colleagues, foundation, sponsors or students. He is under no obligation to acknowledge anything. Whether or not several dates occurred is not the issue. Her continued harassment of him, and his family members, and other illegal activities are.