@Jas
It seems to me she didn’t want to give him her side of the story because being stuck between two emotionally abuse friends who have a pissing contest on the internet and feel no shame turning their ‘friends’ into yet another battlefield turns you into a paranoid wreck, who thinks strangers trying to get your side of the story are out to make you look like an idiot in front of their audience. Which that guy did. With all the false bravado of Clint Eastwood at a Republican convention. She should have stuck to her guns and refused to talk to him.
If you had psychological issues, a bad childhood, and just became the centre stage of internet drama, and a total stranger came up to you saying ‘let’s talk about your history with abuse’ and then began arguing semantics over what constitutes abuse, would you have remained calm and rational? Be honest.