I felt numb – not sure what to do. How did deepfake images of me end up on a porn site?

There was an insistent knock at the door. This in itself was startling – it was the winter of 2020 and we hadn't yet returned to socialising indoors after lockdown. When I answered, I was surprised to see a male acquaintance of mine. He said he needed to speak to me. I knew it was something unprecedented because he asked to come in. He told me to sit down. That's when the adrenaline started coursing through me – people only suggest that when they're about to deliver bad news.