After accidentally spitting on various guests at a party this weekend, Becky Chett insisted to multiple friends that she was a total empath, even as she was talking way too close to their faces at a birthday party.
“I’m just really connected to people’s feelings,” Chett insisted, while blowing what friends described as ‘wine breath’ into their faces. “I can, like, feel what other people are feeling. We’re all the same energy, you know? It actually makes being around other people really draining sometimes because I’m so sensitive to their energy.”
Partygoer Anna Peters reports that Chett grabbed both of her hands and would not let go while both were waiting in line to use the bathroom.
“She said that she could totally tell that we should be friends, even though she’d actually been making me really uncomfortable most of the evening,” recalls Peters. “She winked and told me we were so similar and should hang out more.”
According to Chett’s roommate, Gina Lopez, Chett’s behavior at this weekend’s party was only a small sample of a recent larger change.
“Becky watched a Netflix documentary about ESP a few weeks ago,” reports Lopez. “Ever since then, she’s been convinced that she’s extra sensitive to other people’s feelings.” In the past two weeks, Chett has made multiple trips to buy crystals to protect herself from all the toxicity around her, despite the fact that she was seen initiating long conversations with strangers multiple times per day.
“It’s not easy being so sensitive to the world, but that’s just what happens when you’re an empath,” sighs Chett. She reports that she needs to take long salt baths to soak away the energy she’s picked up from being in crowds, though she hasn’t spent a night in since she realized her “gift.”
Friends are reporting that they dread running into Chett at the next party, because this might be like when she got into CrossFit.
“I’m not sure if she’ll get me to try to be an empath with her or just never stop talking about it, but either way it’s already exhausting me,” says friend Lucy Moses.
