- The real-life Anna Sorokin of “Inventing Anna” says the stress of her scam wasn’t a problem.
- The Netflix show conflates the different ways she misled people and banks, she told Insider.
- In her brief time outside prison, she said she understood her reputation and began to feel regret.
As “Inventing Anna” topped Netflix charts this month, many viewers had the same question.
How did Anna Sorokin, a 20-something middle-class German national, go to New York and pretend to be an heiress with a $60 million trust fund, stiff expensive hotels, and create fake identities to lie to banks — and not freak out over the stress?
In a series of interviews with Insider this week, Sorokin had a few different explanations.
Any stress she felt, she said, was a good thing.
“I do not mind. For me, it’s kind of like a…
