Was Nev Schulman Really Catfished?

But long before the reality show began, Nev Schulman had his own experience with a catfish. It started innocently enough. In 2007, Nev was contacted by an eight-year-old girl named Abby on MySpace. ... But while Abby continued to send Nev paintings, he began to fall fast and hard for her older sister, Megan.

Did Max leave Catfish for Nev?

As Max said in his statement, he was getting fairly busy. In 2015, he wrote and directed his first feature film, We Are Your Friends, starring Wes Bentley and Zac Efron. Unfortunately for him, the movie was a huge box office flop. Still, he left Catfish with a desire to continue his work.

Is the Catfish documentary real?

After the screening, documentary-filmmaker Morgan Spurlock approached the film's producers and called Catfish "the best fake documentary" he had ever seen. The veracity of Angela Wesselman-Pierce's life, as presented in the film, is not in question and has been confirmed by independent news sources.