Run: What Is Really Wrong With Chloe (& How Accurate Is It?)
In Hulu's latest psychological thriller, Run, a young girl named Chloe Sherman (Kiera Allen) is made to believe that she is extremely sick, but what's actually wrong with her? According to her mother, she has five different illnesses that impact her ability to navigate the world as she wishes. As the movie progresses, it is revealed that something far more sinister has caused her to live in a wheelchair, and under constant observation by medical professionals. Once Chloe realizes that she may not be as sick as she's been led to believe, the truth behind all of her illnesses unfolds.
Starring Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story, Ratched) as Diane Sherman, the story follows the single mother as she tends to her daughter Chloe who is in a wheelchair, requires an inhaler, and takes several rounds of medication a day. It is proposed that all of her ailments result from her premature birth. After discovering a suspicious bottle of pills, Chloe takes off to the pharmacy to figure out what exactly they're meant for. She learns that it is a muscle relaxer that Diane gets for their dog, but her mother made her take them the night before. According to the pharmacist, this kind of medication would cause a person's legs to go numb. All of this information forces Chloe to question her mother's true intent behind her supposed caregiving.
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The story resembles countless news reports on Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, in which a parent or guardian purposefully makes the person in their care sick, to receive monetary gain or attention. One of the most famous cases is that of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose mother gaslighted her into believing that she was terminally ill, and of a very
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