239. Dad's Other Life
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Sammy’s perfect, doting dad had a dark, secret life. The truth rocked Sammy’s world, but you might be more surprised by how she reacted.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Ben, my name is Sammy, and my secret is that I learned a lot about my dad after he died prematurely. |
| 0:06.7 | That's when everything unraveled, and I learned the truth about what was really going on in his life. |
| 0:12.5 | Today, the Secret Room presents Dad's Other Life. He actually went to jail for that. |
| 0:29.2 | His friend bailed him out. |
| 0:30.7 | And I'm like, you know what? |
| 0:31.9 | If his friend wouldn't have bailed him out, |
| 0:33.6 | he probably would have learned a lesson sitting in jail. |
| 0:36.1 | He should have sat in that cell knowing that he did that. |
| 0:51.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:52.5 | Today, Sammy joins me to tell us about her perfect and doting dad. |
| 0:56.0 | Everyone saw him as the pillar of the community and the perfect husband and father. |
| 1:00.0 | And in truth, he was, except for the other life that no one knew he was leading. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi, Sammy, and welcome to the secret room. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, I'm excited. It's going to be a really interesting |
| 1:13.1 | story that you've got for us. I know, very, very interesting. Yeah. Your secret is kind of a |
| 1:19.1 | revelation. It's kind of sad. Something you learned when your dad, when your dad died. How long ago was |
| 1:26.5 | that? That would be, it would be four years in February. |
| 1:29.9 | So he passed away February 12th of 2021. |
| 1:33.1 | Okay. |
| 1:33.6 | So not that long ago. |
| 1:36.3 | Mm-mm. |
| 1:36.7 | It's very, very unfortunate, you know. |
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