And Nevils tweeted the acronym DARVO and spelled it out: “Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.” DARVO is a “perpetrator strategy,” according to the professor who coined the term, Jennifer Freyd.
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Tracy directly replied to Tucker’s statement saying, “This is just more of the same DARVO, deflection, victim blaming and lies that I’ve been dealing with now for months.”
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