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They say the latest allegations follow a pattern of behaviour since childhood, and that Ashley is manipulative, desperately craves fame and uses people to get what she wants.

“She loved playing the victim,” said her father, Mike Kirilow, a self-employed home renovator. “Because it gave her control over people.”

Ashley’s mother, Cindy Edwards, said Ashley was a sweet child, but desperate for attention.

“She always wanted to be the princess.”

Edwards said Ashley became greedier in adolescence.

“She just wanted more and more, no matter what I gave her.”

After disappearing for three days after her Grade 8 graduation, Ashley came home said she didn’t want to live under her mother’s rules anymore.

She briefly lived with her maternal grandparents in Paris, Ont., before moving in with her dad and stepmother, where she stayed until she was 16. When she didn’t like her father’s rules, she moved in with a friend’s family for three months and then back with her grandparents for a year.

“You couldn’t trust anything she was saying,” said Mary Edwards, Ashley’s grandmother.

Ashley then lived with a boyfriend’s family before moving back in with her father and stepmother.

“She made this house a living hell,” said France, Ashley’s stepmother, citing constant lying, stealing from her siblings and flagrant disobedience.

Ashley’s parents and stepmother say although she saw a number of therapists and psychiatrists, Ashley has never been formally diagnosed with any mental illness.

“She has lived in a fantasy world as long as we’ve known her, where she’s a princess and everyone adores her,” said her stepmother.
Gonna go against the kneejerk reaction and point out that no one could develop emotionally normal with family attitudes like this. Even when a kid is acting like a total manipulative bitch, the parents usually (and should) defend their child by pointing out that she was hanging out with bad influences, depression due to a breakup or being picked on at school, etc. The fact that every member of her immediately family ran to the media to badmouth her says a lot about them. She may very well be scum but they certainly aren't helping.