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Director of Netflix doc reveals what she really thinks of mom who anonymously bullied her teen daughter online for a year

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Published 10:28 5 Sep 2025 GMT+1

Director of Netflix doc reveals what she really thinks of mom who anonymously bullied her teen daughter online for a year

Kendra Licari admitted to sending her daughter abusive text messages

Niamh Shackleton

Niamh Shackleton

The director of Unknown Number: The High School Catfish has shared her thoughts on the mom who bullied her own daughter.

The documentary landed on Netflix on August 29 and has garnered worldwide attention, having already racked up 13,600,000 views on the streaming platform, per FilxPatrol.

The programme looks at Lauryn Licari and her former boyfriend who were harassed online for 12 months by an unknown number.

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The authorities got involved in the case and discovered who it was who had been giving Lauryn abuse online — her own mother.

The FBI traced the IP addresses of the messages back to her mom Kendra Licari, despite the fact she'd used virtual private networks (VPNs) to hide her location.

Ultimately, Kendra was arrested and charged with multiple counts of stalking and using a computer to commit a crime.

Kendra Licari was arrested in December 2022 (Isabella County Jail)
Kendra Licari was arrested in December 2022 (Isabella County Jail)

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Now, the director of the doc, Skye Borgman has shared her own thoughts on Kendra and if what she said in the documentary who was truthful or not.

Kendra was interviewed for five hours as part of the show.

Borgman told PEOPLE: "I think it was important to me to get Kendra's perspective out there, and it was more important to get the kids' perspective out there, but to hear from her and to hear what her answers are was something that I felt was really beneficial to the documentary.

"Weighing whether or not those things are true or not, I can't really judge that 100 per cent."

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See the Unknown Number trailer here:

Apparently, Kendra repeated herself a lot in the hours-long interview and not everything she said made it into the final cut.

"I felt like the clearest answers that she gave to things were what eventually made it into the documentary," Borgman said of the edits she chose to include of Kendra's interview.

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All in all, Borgman doesn't think Kendra really knows why she did what she did.

Speaking on the You Can’t Make This Up podcast per TUDUM, Borgman shared: "I don’t know that she really knows why she did it."

The cops raided the Licari's home, where it was revealed that Kendra was behind the messages (Netflix)
The cops raided the Licari's home, where it was revealed that Kendra was behind the messages (Netflix)

She added: "[Kendra] does mention in the documentary an assault that happened [to her] when she was right around Lauryn’s age.

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"She talks about how scary that was for her to see her only child, her little girl, growing up, and that’s what she really relates to and that’s what she believes led her to sending these text messages and trying to keep Lauryn close."

Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is now streaming on Netflix.

Featured Image Credit: Netflix

Topics: Netflix, True crime, Documentaries, News, US News, Film and TV

Niamh Shackleton
Niamh Shackleton

Niamh Shackleton is an experienced journalist for UNILAD, specialising in topics including mental health and showbiz, as well as anything Henry Cavill and cat related. She has previously worked for OK! Magazine, Caters and Kennedy.

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