The 28-year-old woman who allegedly faked being a teenager to enroll in an NYC school claimed she fled an abusive marriage and struggled with an eating disorder that landed her in a psych ward.
Kacy Claassen told her hometown news outlet in Hays, Kansas, about three hours northwest of Wichita, that she was unemployed and homeless and using a nonprofit’s transitional housing program to rebuild her life.
“It was definitely a humbling experience,” a then-25-year-old Claassen told the Hays Post in March 2023, claiming she had briefly lost custody of her then 2-year-old daughter because of her financial issues.
“I don’t regret marrying my husband, I do wish I would have seen signs sooner before I married. But every piece of life is a learning experience, I’ve found. I have no hard feelings toward him at all. What he does with his life is his life. What he did to me was his choice,” she said…