Within my interaction with many of Joy Kuos’ associates, I found Tiffanie shared first hand experience. To keep the tone intact I put down my whole interaction in exact words of Tiffanie.

Sweet and caring

During the initial year of knowing Joy Kuo, she came off as a sweet and caring person as she would often text me to ask how I am doing, pretending to be my friend. But in hindsight, she was just trying to get to know about me more and getting information as she would ask me for ideas for her businesses.

Vested business interests

Also, she was contacting me a lot more when she was trying to recruit the volunteers into her World Ventures, Multilevel Marketing & pyramid businesses. When she was unsuccessful with these ventures, there was little to no contact from her (unless she needed something from me of’course).

Unhealthy obsession

Joy has an unhealthy obsession towards one of the volunteer (Clarito) and was very possessive of him to the point she would not let anyone near him. Joy knew that I was recently divorced and recovering from a narcissistic abusive marriage and she made use of my vulnerability so that I would be scared of Clarito to keep me from getting close to him.

Recruiting Flying Monkeys

Joy would often provoke Clarito and get into heated arguments with him and then come up to me immediately to slander Clarito, saying that he has such an ill temper so that I would be afraid of him.

As a result, I would often feel very stressed instead of having time for healing and respite during Retreats as they will always get into some argument or another and Joy would always tried to manipulate me to take her side.

Use & Abuse Cycle

In 2017, Joy Kuo was very keen to stop over in Malaysia on the way to an India pilgrimage trip as I didn’t want to go to India alone. We both understood that it was a short holiday for her and she looked forward the most to try Malaysian food and even asked me to look for durians for her.

But I found out from Li Ping (fellow volunteer) that Joy told her that she was coming to Malaysia to help me to start a branch of our spiritual movement in Malaysia!

Joy never offered me any help whatsoever, for any workshop or meditation evenings during all the years I knew her. I was shocked to hear how Joy could blatantly lie to Li Ping and misleading her into thinking that her objective to visit Malaysia was to help me so that she would look good to other volunteers.

Blame Shifter

Joy tend to protect her face to appear good and would often shift blame onto others without batting an eyelash.

For instance, there was a time during Indian Pilgrimage where we used the wash room. I went in first and then Joy took her turn to use it.

Joy squeezed her way in before everyone and came out a moment later saying that the toilet was clogged with toilet paper.

Joy immediately turned to me and said “Oh, it was you who went earlier” to try to shift the blame and put the guilt on me but I knew very well it wasn’t me because I had thrown the toilet paper I used into a big rubbish bin in the wash room and not into the toilet bowl.

So it was definitely Joy who clogged the toilet bowl as she went to use the washroom after me but denied her fault as in her head she is “Little Miss Perfect”.

The real face & Narcissistic intimidation

It was during this India Pilgrimage that I got to see Joy Kuos true face as she started to physically bully me. When she hurried me to the front to do voice recording of our mentor, she gave me a big shove that I almost fell but tried covering it up by saying it was not a push.

In a second incident, she suddenly and unexpectedly grabbed my hand holding the voice recorder, roughly handled me while bossing me to “Do it properly!”

I felt very intimidated by her at that time because she always portrayed to be soft and gentle to others, but with me, she was showing her true colours and behaving physically aggressive with me.