She melted down for us the first time when the judge denied the defense request to exclude parts of the sex tape. I saw exactly the same truculent expression then, crossed arms, tears, stink-eye, the whole nine yards. In my view, this is how she handles being out of control. She would default to narcissistic rage, but she is unable to act on that; so instead, we get the victimization route, which is her line of last defense. She adopts the helpless child, which is obviously contrary to fact to all of us who now have seen her and know her behaviors well. It's foolishly ineffective, but entirely hardwired in her narcissistic outlook. She is incapable of altering her behavior even when it is absolutely necessary -- and if we look at her past behaviors, we see many examples of inconsistency and outright foolishness in her reactions to situations -- the police interviews immediately come to mind, the foolish lies that were easily disproven, etc. All of those things are entirely predictable, because narcissists (and Borderlines, as she certainly suffers from a cluster of PD's in my opinion) tend to repeat mistakes because they are blinded by their warped sense of self. She thinks she's wonderful! We should all agree! Of course we will, if she has even a moment to convince us! When this fails -- as in this case, as a massive searchlight has been cast upon her life -- she has nothing but an attempt at garnering pity via her "I'm just beset unjustly on all sides" routine. :cow: