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episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. What a lot of people don't realize is when you are subject to the process of court.

It's one thing when it finally gets to trial, but what people don't see is the months and months of work that went into leading up to trial.

The depositions that you go into are incredibly excruciating because the defending attorneys,

they can ask you any question and you are compelled to answer.

It was very difficult.

Then there's the civil side of it where then everything in your life is absolutely exposed,

your medical records, your psychiatric records, everything.

And because of the position I was in where I was going after a multi-million dollar

organization that had people that were willing to die for the leader, I had to be incredibly

fierce in my approach because my life was being torn apart by

this. After Warren's trial, I had a nervous breakdown. I had just reached a point where it was

just too much. The unspoken shame, the unhealed trauma, the retramacization process that I had

been through. And having war-inched

conviction overturned, it broke something in me for a period of time. So yes, it was a very complex,

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