An Illinois man who believes his life is being secretly filmed for a reality TV show has filed a lawsuit in federal court against HBO, seeking payment for the production, sales, distribution and syndication of the imaginary show.
Nicholas Marzano, of Hillside, Ill., filed suit in April alleging that HBO has hidden cameras hidden in his car and home, recruited local law enforcement and hired actors to play “attorneys, government and law enforcement officials, physicians, employers, prospective employers, family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.” According to Buzzfeed, Marzano “also says HBO is keeping him from getting a job or paying his bills, so that he will be forced to remain on the show.”
So-called “Truman Show delusion” (referring to a 1998 Jim Carrey film) is a type of persecutory/grandiose delusion in which patients believe their lives are staged plays or reality television shows. It is not officially recognized and is not separately listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Assn., but could be classified as a “Delusional Disorder, Persecutory Type.”
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