{"id":256180,"date":"2026-08-07T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/matt-rife-blasted-for-telling-fan-with-autism-to-take-his-own-life\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:37:08","slug":"matt-rife-blasted-for-telling-fan-with-autism-to-take-his-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/matt-rife-blasted-for-telling-fan-with-autism-to-take-his-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Rife Blasted For Telling Fan With Autism to Take His Own Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Comedian Matt Rife is at the center of yet another bizarre controversy.<\/p>\n<p>And this time, even \u201cedgy\u201d humor fans who might usually defend Rife are conceding that the comic may have gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>You see, this wasn\u2019t a case of Rife lashing out at a heckler on stage. Rather, he took to social media to encourage a fan with autism to kill himself.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Rife attends the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. \" class=\"wp-image-560657 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2192548759-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matt Rife attends the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer\/WireImage)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s the deal: Matt and a business partner named Elton Castee recently purchased the Haunted Warren Museum in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The place was formerly owned by famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, and it houses the notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/07\/dan-rivera-paranormal-investigator-dies-in-presence-of-haunted-annabelle-doll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">haunted Annabelle doll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rife has taken some flak from the paranormal investigation community for seemingly not taking the museum seriously and for charging outrageous ticket prices.<\/p>\n<p>One such investigator, Chris Mac, did <em>not<\/em> harshly criticize Matt (at least not that we know of), but <em>did<\/em> comment on one of his posts with some historical context about the Salem Witch Trials.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DbdzIZju8Pu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>And for some reason, that comment prompted a scorched earth response from Matt:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir, you are a lifeless douchebag. Please remove yourself from this earth. Absolutely nobody is reading your novels in these comments. You do not matter to anybody,\u201d he wrote (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/08\/07\/matt-rife-goes-after-autistic-paranormal-investigator-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TMZ<\/a>), adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe event has already sold thousands of tickets. Now watch as I block you and you fall back into nonexistence<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow am going move forward with all this nonsense garbage what Matt said and Elton Castee control your mentor Matt or get Matt therapy I don\u2019t want ever ever want see Matt bully a person with autism again do I make myself clear not ok to say with a person with autism I have autism,\u201d Mac shot back in response.<\/p>\n<p>Rife has not yet responded, but Mac has quite a few supporters who have come to his defense.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to Rife explain that he is frequently bullied in the comments of his posts.<\/p>\n<p>They explain that he has reached the point where he frequently replies in brutal fashion, and more often than not, the troll just quietly deletes their comment and goes away.<\/p>\n<p>The insiders note that there is crucial context missing in this situation. Whatever the case, Matt is receiving a whole lot of flak today.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/\/988lifeline.org__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!xstZYD4AbXf0LaB3IqKVOtjtvRshAZeK_thC8G4jTkSPgw1On9BVzh0v4EF5VdXJcCRY2gMkHk0Wk23rMHpnHVIszS-M8A%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>988lifeline.org<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/08\/matt-rife-blasted-for-telling-fan-with-autism-to-take-his-own-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Comedian Matt Rife is at the center of yet another bizarre controversy. And this time, even \u201cedgy\u201d humor fans who might usually defend Rife are conceding that the comic may have gone too far. You see, this wasn\u2019t a case of Rife lashing out at a heckler on stage. Rather, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}