The definitive dossier of Megan Fox's transformation into an unethical content creator

How did a hard-working journalist transform into an unethical pseudo-Jerry Springer?

Screenshot from an interview Megan Fox and I conducted with Australian journalist Grant Wyeth

Megan Fox, the ethical truth teller

When I worked hand in hand with Megan Fox covering family courts across the world for about a year starting in January 2021-January 2022, one of the first stories we both covered was of Angela Freiner in St. Louis County.

What brought Megan and I together was a remarkable Zoom conference of thirty-eight corrupt guardian ad litems {GAL) in St. Louis County, which was leaked to me.

Angela’s GAL, Venus Jackson, was on the call.

Angela and her daughter were both in court in early 2021 facing off with the judge, Nicole Zellweger.

Angela’s daughter, then fourteen, begged the judge not to send her to live with her father.

Angela’s daughter told Judge Zellweger that he was molesting her.

“I still don’t understand,” said the minor. “I told you that he was touching me [unintelligible] and you’re still going to make me go with him?”

Judge Zellweger didn’t care and sent this girl to live with the man who she said molested her.

“There’s no evidence,” Judge Zellweger said at one point, ignoring the testimony she just heard.

The girl recorded this hearing secretly and that recording was leaked to me.

A couple weeks after this hearing, Angela sent an ill advised email to Judge Zellweger, who was in the process of forcefully sending her daughter to her alleged molester.

The email was ex parte and unhelpful, but not criminal by any objective view.

“The court does not have the right to hold my daughter against her will or traffic her across the country! If she is not returned to me today there will be consequences for your conduct. You have stepped over the line for any time of immunity as a judge!” Angela said in the email.

Law enforcement saw an opportunity and arrested her for threatening the judge.

The only local coverage of this story came from Joel Currier of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. It was perfunctory, without mentioning the audio which had been linked.

“Angela Freiner, 42, of the 8500 block of Pilot Avenue, was charged Saturday with tampering with a judicial officer.

“Freiner has sent several emails to St. Louis County Judge Nicole Zellweger, who had presided over a custody dispute involving Freiner's daughter, charges say. One of them March 5 told the judge the court had no authority to hold Freiner's daughter ‘against her will.’"

Megan and I both reached out to Currier, but he never did a follow up or story on the audio, which by then had received lots of coverage outside of St. Louis.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch article was an example of the sort of media spin both Megan and I used to hate, missing context and afraid to tell the whole story.