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12 hours before her show, he live-streamed himself from an undisclosed location, holding an identical jade bangle (later revealed to be their late grandmother’s original, while Jantzen’s was a replica). He did not smash it. Instead, he ate it — ground the jade into powder with a mortar and pestle, mixed it with whiskey, and drank it on camera. He then deleted the stream but not before thousands archived it.