In 2019, in a frenzy of grief, media speculation, and legal proceedings, Robertson attempted suicide. This is something she writes about, in detail. Before the book was published, she says, only four or five people knew about this. She was unsure whether to include this detail in the book, but, “I just want people to know I hit rock bottom.”
“The biggest thing I want people to know about me,” she says, “is, you know, I really did everything I could to help the situation. I really did.” Robertson says that she tried to aid in the search for Cotten’s passwords. “Some people say I don’t have enough sympathy for the [Quadriga] users – I do.” Robertson certainly sounds remorseful when she speaks about what Cotten did; the lives he ruined from behind his laptop in the couple’s shared home, and on their luxury holidays. But that remorse is so deeply, and complicatedly, entwined with the love she felt for her husband. “He really was my best friend,” she says, “and I loved him more than anyone that I’ve ever loved. And he loved me more than I’ve ever been loved by someone.”
Meanwhile, in the wake of the whole scandal, the Quadriga money has never been traced. Investors like Tong Zou, an American who appears in the Netflix film, who lost his entire life savings to Cotten’s scam. He was part of a group of Quadriga users on the messaging app Signal, who took it upon themselves to investigate Cotten’s death. This group was where a lot of the…
