Australian surfer Ellie-Jean Coffey is facing death threats after a video of her urinating off a boat in Western Australia was falsely shared as her defecating in a sacred Indian lake. The 30-year-old clarified the mix-up, stating she has never been to India and the incident occurred in the Aussie outback, not Udaipur.
Australian surfing star Ellie-Jean Coffey is facing death threats after people in India wrongly accused her of defecating in a sacred lake. The 30-year-old posted a short Instagram video two days ago showing her urinating off the side of a boat in Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region, with a crocodile swimming just metres away. But the video went viral in India after it was reposted with false claims that it showed her going to the bathroom in Udaipur’s sacred lake.
Ellie-Jean Coffey clarifies truth after viral mix-up
The confusion started when Coffey shared the clip with the caption, “A croc almost got me.” Soon after, an Indian Instagram account called SwadesiOfficial reposted it, wrongly claiming she was an “American tourist pooping into a lake in Udaipur.” The post quickly gained attention, and angry comments began pouring in.People demanded that Ellie-Jean Coffey be arrested or deported. Some called her “classless” and accused her of disrespecting Indian culture. “I started getting comments asking if I was in India, but I didn’t know what was going on,” she told News Corp Australia. “Then I saw people saying I should be deported — and I’ve never...
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