Lexi Weinbaum left TikTok viewers horrified after sharing a series of videos claiming that a group of people she considered friends drugged her and tried to kill her back in 2015.
Who is Lexi Weinbaum?
Lexi Weinbaum describes herself as a “victim advocate.” Although she had been active on TikTok since 2020, her account gained attention in March 2023 as she began detailing a chilling attack she says happened eight years prior, when she was just 16 years old.
What happened to Lexi Weinbaum?
According to Weinbaum, in 2015, she went with a female friend to a male friend’s house to smoke marijuana. She describes inhaling what she thought was marijuana and then blacking out; when she regained consciousness, she was being beaten.
Weinbaum says when she tried to escape, her female friend kicked her down the stairs.
She then recounted running into the street and screaming for help. But when passersby offered to call 911, her female friend told them that Weinbaum was experiencing psychosis.
Weinbaum says she then ended up passing out and having multiple seizures and cardiac events. She was eventually taken to the hospital, where she says that her toxicology report revealed that she had been given opiates.
What happened after Lexi Weinbaum’s attack?
In a July TikTok, Weinbaum’s mother answers questions about how she found out that Weinbaum was in danger.
Her mother says that she received a phone call from her daughter saying that she had been drugged. Weinbaum says that she had been in a drug-induced psychosis at the time.
“I’d never seen you like that in any way,” Weinbaum’s mother says in a TikTok about her daughter’s behavior in the hospital after being drugged. “You were just out of your mind.”
@lexiweinbaum My friends tried to kill me. In this video I an joined by my mother to answer some questions about her experience finding out her child was a victim. #truecrime #truecrimetiktok #crimesurvivor #crimestories #truecrimecommunity #crimejunkie #survivor #attacked #mystory #faq #victimstosurvivors #victimstory ♬ original sound – lexi
Many commenters on Weinbaum’s video said that the “friends” who tried to murder her weren’t friends at all.
“Those aren’t/weren’t friends,” @danamoran62 commented. “I hope they were prosecuted.”
“People who try and murder you were never your friends,” @shawn_dub wrote.
What happened to Lexi Weinbaum’s friends?
Weinbaum has declined to identify her alleged attackers. In her initial video, she noted that some of the people involved were also minors at the time, and insinuated that there was manipulation by adults at play.
However, she did speak of them further throughout later videos without identifying details. She alleged that the people who had orchestrated her attack blackmailed her. She also said that the group was “charged criminally” for the attack, but not brought to trial.
Where is Lexi Weinbaum now?
Since initially sharing her story on TikTok, Weinbaum has continued to speak out about what happened, focusing largely on the aftermath of and healing from trauma. Her videos often highlight the complexity of traumatic incidents, and the lasting impact they can have on future relationships and experiences.
In a TikTok posted January 31, 2024, Weinbaum explained that her initial videos going viral resulted in frequent invitations to speak about her experiences in person and on podcasts. She also shared that she’s been advocating for true crime victims and is working on a book.
“I turned those traumatic events into advocacy,” she said. “First on this platform, and then, eventually, it became my career.”
Weinbaum also founded Sound of Survivors, described on its website as “a platform dedicated to fostering ongoing discussions among survivors and providing essential resources to aid in their healing process.”
Editor’s note: This article is regularly updated for relevance.
