220. I Almost Married a Skinhead
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Skyler’s odyssey into adulthood was a perilous journey from foster homes to skin heads where disappointment waited at every turn. Today she shares her secret coming of age story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Ben my name is Skyler my secret is when I was a teenager in foster care I was living life on the edge and I almost married a skinhead |
| 0:10.0 | it's a secret I don't share because if people knew what I've been through, they would see me very differently. |
| 0:16.4 | Today the secret room presents, I don't want to go with you and I was like let me out of this car right now |
| 0:36.8 | I'm gonna jump out let me out so he unlocked the door and pushed me out of the moving car. |
| 0:43.0 | Oh my God. |
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| 0:56.2 | Today my guest shares her odyssey into adulthood in a perilous world where |
| 1:06.7 | disappointment awaited her at every turn. The challenges she faced and how she |
| 1:11.1 | dealt with them are her secret. Let's get started. |
| 1:14.1 | Hi Skyler and welcome to the secret room. |
| 1:22.3 | Hi Ben, thank you for having me. Hi Skyler and welcome to the secret room. |
| 1:23.0 | Hi Ben, thank you for having me. |
| 1:25.0 | You're welcome. |
| 1:26.0 | Your secret is, among other things, that you almost married a skinhead, right? |
| 1:31.0 | Uh, yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | Okay. Well, I guess we'll hear about your journey to the precipice and why it did not happen. |
| 1:39.4 | Yes. And you also said in your confessional at the top of the show that you were in foster care, right? |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, I grew up in foster care and group homes. |
| 1:48.0 | Can you tell us how you ended up there? |
| 1:51.0 | So I had a really abusive mother. It was because I attempted suicide at around 12. And a half. My brother walked in on me attempting to hang a noose on the |
| 2:07.2 | shower. My mother had gone out for the night. My stepfather called 911 and they came to get me and they put me in a psych ward. |
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