Fyre Pageant founder Billy McFarland has mentioned he’s “too scared” to look at the documentaries in regards to the pageant.
McFarland served a six-year jail sentence after pleading responsible to wire-fraud expenses associated to the failed pageant, and was the topic of Netflix documentary Fyre: The Biggest Social gathering That By no means Occurred and Fyre Fraud on Hulu.
The co-founder spoke to British entrepreneur Steven Bartlett in his The Diary Of A CEO collection, and mentioned the documentaries made their method into the jail throughout his sentence on a USB stick, which different prisoners used within the jail TV room to look at them.
“I actually went exterior, I believe I used to be one in every of two individuals who wasn’t within the TV room watching the documentary, however I couldn’t do it,” McFarland mentioned.
“I believe I used to be nonetheless within the combative part the place I simply hadn’t come to actuality with the whole lot that had occurred and I used to be too scared to listen to allegations or feedback by the individuals and never be capable of reply.”
He added: “I simply hadn’t come to actuality with the whole lot that occurred. I used to be too scared to listen to allegations or feedback by different individuals and never be capable of reply.
“I wouldn’t have been capable of do something about it, so I really feel like I wasn’t steady sufficient or mature sufficient at the moment to look at it, and possibly nonetheless am not.”
Billy McFarland just lately launched a brand new enterprise enterprise which is about to happen within the Bahamas.
Titled PYRT, the occasion will see McFarland lead a treasure hunt which begins with contributors monitoring down one in every of 99 bottles with a message contained inside.