Liana Shanti Truths
Costarted Slander Campaign Against Liana

Paula Haygarth

How did Paula go from hooking up with her best friend, Amanda Brady's ex-husband to...

being identified as the primary participant in the slander campaign against Liana, a woman she did not know?

“a high degree of confidence that Paula played a primary role in the harassment campaign”Sourced Intelligence, Private Investigator
Paula Haygarth
Paula Haygarth
Who is Paula Haygarth?

“(Paula) has tried to ruin my family for 8 years” — Amanda Brady

Paula was Amanda Brady's best friend and bridesmaid in her wedding. UNTIL she hooked up with Amanda's ex-husband, Wade Martin. Then jealousy and a bitter feud.

Since Amanda had full custody of the two girls from her previous marriage to Wade, she and her new husband, Drew Brady, moved their family to Florida.

Paula complained that they tried everything and no law enforcement would help bring their girls back to Canada. The real reason: Wade didn't want to pay child support.

Paula connected with another jealous stepmom, Stefanie Horvath, and together they conspired to blame Liana for Amanda moving to Florida with her kids.

Then they started the online attacks on Liana.

After enduring 7 months of vicious attacks, Liana finally defended herself and publicly exposed Paula, Stefanie and Byron.

Stage 01

Before Amanda knew Liana · 2013–2015

  • 2013–2015 Her friend. Her bridesmaid. Her ex-husband's new lover. Paula was Amanda’s Reiki practitioner and close friend. She was a bridesmaid in Amanda’s wedding to Drew. Then she hooked up with Wade Martin, Amanda’s ex-husband.
  • Before Liana, the family conflict already existed. Amanda described years of Paula harassing her and her daughters. She said once Paula moved in with him, Wade saw his daughters “sporadically” and didn't pay child support.
Stage 02

The move to Florida · November 2021–February 2022

  • Late November–December 2021 · The Florida trip was discussed before departure. Paula acknowledged hearing Amanda tell Wade about the Florida holiday. Liana’s name did not come up. Wade agreed to the trip; Amanda and Drew left Canada in December for medical travel and a Christmas holiday.
  • Early 2022 · A holiday becomes a relocation dispute. Amanda and Drew decided to apply for visas and purchased a home in Florida in February. Her lawyer’s June response says Wade knew about the visa application by late January and that relocation discussions had continued since February.
  • Amanda and her attorney tried to arrange parenting time with Wade. Her attorney proposed four two-week blocks each year, with Amanda covering travel costs. Wade’s response included: “Go fuck your self.”
  • Wade didn't pay child support for years. Amanda’s attorney wrote: “Wade has refused to provide income disclosure or pay for section 7 expenses since shortly after the parties separation.”
Stage 03

The Jealous Stepmoms Unite · March 2022

  • March 20, 2022 · Stefanie Horvath calls Paula (a complete stranger) Stefanie contacted Paula, whom she had not previously met, and arranged dinner at Famoso Pizza in Regina. Paula & Wade meet with Stefanie & Byron.
  • Byron & Stefanie ask them to write an affidavit to take away Isla from her protective mother, Haley.
  • Wade agrees to write an affidavit for a complete stranger, who has been accused of drug abuse & sexual abuse, to help him get custody of his daughter.
  • Paula supports taking a little girl away from her protective mother.
  • The jealous stepmoms concocted a story that their partners' ex-wives, Amanda and Haley, were in a cult and that Liana Shanti was their cult leader. Their proof? Both women wanted to move to Florida. Both women took online classes from Liana.
  • Paula acknowledged that she assumed Liana was involved in Amanda’s move because of conversations with her teenage stepdaughters. That's it. That was her "proof" before she colluded to harm Liana.
  • Wade & Byron both testified that their wives (Paula and Stefanie) were the ones running the organized campaign against Liana, while they focused on work.
Stage 04

The Online Slander Campaign & Byron's Death Threats · April–May 2022

  • April 2022 · The Instagram slander campaign begins. They attacked Amanda & Drew first. Then quickly switched to viciously slandering Liana. Threatening calls were made to Drew’s office on April 14.
  • April 28, 2022 · Amanda and Drew hire a private investigator, Sourced Intelligence. The report records an engagement to investigate online harassment and threatening communications to find out who was behind the attacks.
  • May 9, 2022 · Paula shared a Reddit post slandering Liana on her Facebook page. Paula shared The Shanti Summary to Facebook with her own commentary on May 9. The very same day the private investigator said most of the Liana slander accounts started.
  • May 10, 2022 Amanda told Liana she had spoken to Alex, the private investigator, and that the investigators identified Paula as behind the slanderous Reddit activity.
  • May 19, 2022 · The Death Threats from Stefanie's husband, Byron. Amanda and Liana received voicemails threatening their lives and the life of Liana's minor son. Byron's ex-wife identified his voice as the one in the death threats.
Stage 05

The findings reach Liana · June 2022

  • June 10, 2022 · The private investigator report reaches Liana. Liana asked Amanda how she knew Paula was driving the slander posts. Amanda pointed to Alex’s report.
  • Amanda supplied the accusations and the report. Her messages show the information she repeatedly passed to Liana about Paula, Wade and the other people she blamed.
Stage 06

Liana waited seven months before defending herself · Late 2022

  • Late 2022 · Approximately November–December · Liana begins defending herself publicly. Liana testified that the attacks had continued for seven to eight months before she posted about the defendants. The information Amanda supplied in May and June therefore preceded the response she described by several months.
  • “I remained silent for seven months.” Liana placed the Instagram attacks in April and the Reddit attacks in May 2022. Asked if she had posted about the defendants before her later response, she answered: “No, not a single time.”
The investigation Amanda and Drew commissioned

“A high degree of confidence”: Paula played a primary role in the harassment campaign. (the jury NEVER saw this)

Amanda and Drew hired Sourced Intelligence to investigate the harassment directed at them and Liana. The report assessed with a high degree of confidence that Paula Haygarth played a primary role. Amanda brought that finding to Liana.

This is the investigation Liana says she relied on when she exposed Paula publicly and decided to sue her. (The jury NEVER heard this.)

Sourced Intelligence assessed with a high degree of confidence that Paula played a primary role in the harassment campaign targeting its clients. Its linguistic analysis also identified her as one of the authors of the communications. Report, pp. 3, 21 (The jury NEVER heard this.)

“Up to 95% confident that Paula and Byron were involved in posting the content”

Up to 95% confidence in the deposition. The May 22, 2026 order describes Feil’s confidence as about 80–95% that Paula and Byron were involved in posting the content. The order cites his sworn deposition at 81:8–82:12. ECF 92, pp. 8–9, 13

Sourced Intelligence summary assessing with high confidence that Paula Haygarth plays a primary role in the harassment campaign and identifying additional actorsSourced Intelligence · summary close-up

The report’s summary identifies Paula as a primary participant and names additional people assessed as involved.

Sourced Intelligence scope and summary of findings, page 3Sourced Intelligence · summary

The report names Amanda and Drew as the clients and identifies Paula as playing a primary role in the campaign.

Sourced Intelligence open-web analysis of Paula HaygarthSourced Intelligence · open web

The open-web analysis describes Paula’s large digital footprint and active promotion of her coaching business.

This is why Liana sued Paula.

“So odd that your ex-husband's wife is targeting me.” — Liana Shanti

On May 10, Amanda reported that she had just spoken with Alex and that the investigators had identified Paula as one of the people behind the Reddit account. On June 10, Liana asked how Amanda knew Paula was driving the posts. Amanda’s answer was direct: it came from Alex’s report.

This is the investigation behind Liana’s account of why she pursued Paula: it was commissioned by Amanda and Drew, and Amanda passed its findings to her. The May 22 order independently records that Amanda and Drew hired Feil to identify the anonymous authors. ECF 92, p. 4

Read the dates. Read their admissions. Then read what Amanda put in Liana’s hands.

Chapter 01 · Before the campaign

Her friend. Her bridesmaid. Then her ex-husband’s partner.

Amanda and Paula’s history began years before the attacks on Liana. Amanda first trusted Paula as a practitioner, then welcomed her as a close friend and bridesmaid. Paula subsequently became the partner of Amanda’s former husband, Wade.

They became close friends. Amanda confirmed that Paula was a bridesmaid in her wedding to Drew and first saw Wade on the wedding day. 6-89–6-90

The friendship broke down. Amanda said she was hurt and devastated when Paula began dating Wade. Her timeline describes blocking Paula and ending contact. 6-91; Amanda’s timeline

“She has tried to ruin my family for 8 years now.” That was what Amanda told Liana in April 2022. The statement records Amanda’s account of the family conflict already in progress.

Amanda later sent Liana repeated claims about Paula’s treatment of the girls, hostility toward their mother, finances, healing practices and online activity. Those conversations are preserved in their own section below.

“People (in Weyburn) are SO dark and so messed up.” — Amanda Brady

Chapter 02 · The parenting and financial record

“We tried everything to get the girls back” - but did you? Read Wade's nasty response below.

Paula told the jury that she and Wade contacted police, immigration authorities, the FBI, a lawyer and a local politician. “Not one single authority helped us,” she said. The correspondence shows another part of the story: a proposed parenting arrangement, travel paid by Amanda, and a waiver of financial claims. 4-169–4-175

The financial history cannot be left out

“Wade has refused to provide income disclosure or pay for section 7 expenses since shortly after the parties separation.”

Amanda’s lawyer’s draft response · June 14, 2022, p. 2

The letter says Amanda and Drew paid the girls’ health and dental expenses. It refers to an earlier retroactive claim and proposes waiving retroactive and ongoing child support and additional expenses to reach an agreement.

What Amanda’s lawyer proposed

Four two-week parenting blocks each year. The proposed arrangement included contact, schooling, health and activity information.

Amanda would cover travel costs. While the children’s visas were pending, she offered to bring them to North Dakota or another U.S. location for Wade’s parenting time.

A waiver of financial claims. The proposal offered to waive all retroactive and ongoing child support and section 7 expenses.

The illegal-entry accusation was expressly disputed. The letter says border officials permitted the original entry, Wade consented to December travel, and he knew of the visa application and relocation discussions.

June 14, 2022 draft attorney letter, pp. 1–3. The letter records Amanda’s side and a settlement proposal.

“You're such a piece of shit. I won't be signing a parenting agreement....Go fuck your self.” - Wade's response to Amanda

Wade’s email says he will not sign a parenting agreement and directs profanity at Amanda.Wade’s email

Wade’s email says he will not sign a parenting agreement and directs profanity at Amanda.

Amanda’s accompanying message says she supported a relationship between Wade and the girls but wanted a signed plan addressing visitation, visas and return travel. That exchange is preserved in the additional messages below. Paula also acknowledged that Amanda had not stopped phone and Zoom contact between Wade and the girls. AB-178, AB-184; 4-171:14–18

Chapter 03 · The organizing and the assumption

“No facts.” Paula said Wade's affidavit to take Isla, a little girl, away from her mother, Haley, was NOT BASED ON FACTS.

“We had made an assumption that she (Liana) was involved.”

Where she first heard about Liana: Paula identified her stepdaughters and said they told her Amanda was Liana’s student. She also testified that she looked at Liana’s website in 2019 or 2020. 5-44–5-45

What supported the assumption: “Based upon what my stepdaughters had already told me.” 5-49

The shared teacher: Asked whether the common fact was that Amanda and Haley were both Liana’s students, Paula agreed. Asked for other facts tying Liana to the move at that point, she said no. 5-50–5-51

“No facts.” Asked whether the assertion in Wade’s affidavit rested on a belief rather than facts, Paula agreed. 5-52

Paula admitted to colluding with other people to try to harm Liana.

Paula also joined a Zoom call about Liana without establishing who organized it. She and Wade submitted their own statements to Judge Mollway in April 2023. Paula explained that they hoped proceedings against Liana could help get the girls back. Under oath, she described the purpose as to “let the court know that there was stuff going on that could be a problem with the probation.” She said the group asked them to submit letters about their family situation in Liana’s proceeding, hoping a probation violation could help return the children to Canada. Trial transcript, 5-162–5-163 5-21–5-23, 5-154–5-157, 5-162, 5-166–5-167

Chapter 04 · Amanda’s reports to Liana

Amanda kept reporting the slander campaign to Liana.

Amanda kept reporting the slander campaign to Liana. On May 11 she wrote that Paula was “going ham on Reddit.” At trial she confirmed the message, explaining that “going ham” meant posting a lot. 6-147

The messages below show what Amanda reported while the dispute was unfolding: online posts, the investigator’s findings and potential legal responses.

Chapter 05 · Liana’s response

Liana endured seven months of attacks before she publicly exposed the attackers.

Amanda had already brought Paula’s name and the investigator’s findings to Liana in May and June 2022. Liana’s testimony places her own public response much later, after seven to eight months of attacks.

April on Instagram. May on Reddit. “The slander started in April on this account, and on Reddit it started in May. And I remained silent for seven months…” Liana added: “I hadn’t said a word.” Liana’s August 4 testimony, 2-149

She had not posted about the defendants before that response. Asked when the posts began, with November raised in the question, she answered: “Seven to eight months after they were slandering me.” Asked if she had posted about the defendants previously: “No, not a single time.” August 11, 7-150

Why she finally spoke. “First, it was mostly defending myself. I had been attacked for eight months, and I was hurt, I was sad, I was devastated.” 7-160

Chapter 06 · Amanda’s additional messages

What Amanda repeatedly told Liana about Paula

Across these conversations, Amanda repeatedly discussed Paula with Liana: her family history, the online accounts, the labor-board complaint, healing work and the continuing dispute. Amanda described harm to her family, hostility toward the girls’ mother and attempts to disrupt their lives. These screenshots preserve her own accusations and commentary at the time. They are presented separately from the investigator’s report, sworn testimony and messages already shown above.

The online accounts and the people Amanda blamed

“Paula has been leaching off of Wade for years. She has NO money. Lives off Wade. skirts the CRA and taxes by accepting cash for everything.”

“Paula called the department of labor last week on the place London (stepdaughter) volunteers at”

“I went to Paula for healing sessions prior to meeting your work. Had HER SHIT worked, I wouldn't have needed to look elsewhere”

“The girls are going off on how much Wade and Paula suck.”

Chapter 07 · Her testimony and public presence

The privacy claim and the public Facebook photographs

Paula had these photos posted publicly to her Facebook page, but then took them down for the trial so she could lie and say she's “just a quiet private citizen in Canada who wants no attention”

The Facebook photographs Amanda supplied say otherwise

Amanda sent Liana photographs identified as images Paula had made public on Facebook, including lingerie portraits.

Chapter 08 · Earlier public account

“Evil in Saskatchewan”:

An earlier Exposing Family Abuse piece starts with its account of Amanda and Drew Brady’s family in Regina, Saskatchewan. It describes the attacks on their family and business, the cyber investigation, the move to Florida, and the role Paula played. This is a separate author’s account.

The letter says the campaign initially targeted Amanda, Drew, and Drew’s business, then increasingly targeted Liana. It describes a private investigation linked Paula to anonymous online posts. It also attributes a financial and custody motive to Paula. Those motive claims are the letter writer’s interpretation.

Read the original public letter, starting at “The Brady’s of Regina Saskatchewan”. The linked original includes material beyond the portion discussed here.

Chapter 09 · Source notes

The records behind this page

Investigation: Sourced Intelligence, Attribution Investigation: Working Product 1.0. The summary and open-web excerpts are reproduced above; the linguistic assessment is summarized from p. 21. The report was commissioned by Amanda and Drew.

Amanda’s later testimony: She confirmed supplying accusations to Liana, including the allegation concerning Paula’s son. 6-143–6-144, 6-147, 6-149–6-150, 6-160

Parenting and financial documents: The June 14, 2022 letter is a draft response from Amanda’s lawyer. It alleges missing income disclosure and unpaid section 7 expenses and proposes a waiver of support claims.

Sworn testimony: Paula’s August 7, 2026 trial testimony; Alexander Feil’s deposition is cited through the May 22, 2026 order, ECF 92, pp. 8–9 and 13, which cites deposition 81:8–82:12. The trial records portions of Feil’s deposition being read at 4-147–4-148 without reproducing their words.

Messages and photographs: Amanda’s contemporaneous messages, her timeline and the photographs she supplied.

The full attorney letter

Amanda’s attorney’s full response

June 14, 2022 · Full three-page draft response. Only contact addresses, email addresses and phone numbers are redacted.

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