Being a celebrity comes at the price of normalcy and safety for most. Paparazzi clamor to get a picture to the point of genuine harassment. Everyone thinks they are entitled to approach, address, or pass comments on famous people simply because they are well-known. While this is bad enough, often it is not just the celebrity who gets caught up, but also their family and friends.
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We can see that clearly in how NBA fans have been treating Stephen Curry’s mother, Sonya, who, by the way, is not new to the circus. Two of her sons are NBA players, with one of them being arguably the second-most well-known player in all of basketball.
Sonya’s ex-husband, Dell, played in the league for 16 years and experienced similar situations. Her daughter, Sydel, is a college volleyball player and influencer who is married to an NBA player. So Sonya has been here before. But people, unfortunately, are making up stories again and stretching the envelope even.
In a long Facebook post, a user laid out this epic about how Sonya had been harassed at a Ferrari store while trying to buy her son a Ferrari Roma. The post detailed that Sonya was racially profiled by the store owners. It then claimed that Steph had launched an investigation by sending in people of different ethnicities to expose discriminatory practices.
While stories like this do happen, this one is not true, as confirmed by Sonya herself. Unfortunately, inventing this to drum up controversy cheapens the real instances of racism that often happen in the United States.
The entire Curry family has been advocates for racial justice for years. So it’s especially insulting to fabricate stories of them facing inequality.
As if a Facebook post weren’t untrustworthy enough in a vacuum, there was also a dead giveaway that this post was fake: Steph Curry’s car collection does not include any Ferraris. According to the man himself, he prefers Porsches.
If this troll wants to try to fake a story again, maybe they should change that detail. Or, better yet, they could just not make things up for clicks.
