281: Out of the Shadows With Lunden Roberts
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we are going to learn what it's like to be in a relationship with someone who is deep into addiction. Imagine being a young woman who gets involved with an older man who dazzles her. Imagine that you get pregnant by that man, and despite promising that he would stand by you, he, in fact, abandons you and denies paternity. Imagine that man gets sober and remarries, and his whole family pretends that you and your child don't exist.
Imagine that man is the son of the most powerful man on earth. Today, we are going to hear Lunden Roberts's story. Lunden is the mother of a little girl named Navy, whose father is Hunter Biden and whose grandfather is President Joe Biden. Lunden Roberts has written a book called Out of the Shadows, which details her dysfunctional relationship with Hunter, his constant fear of being the family black sheep, and Lunden's fight to have the Biden family recognise her daughter.
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| 0:00.0 | I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting |
| 0:10.1 | their story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:22.4 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:27.5 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome back to the Soaphaful podcast. |
| 0:31.5 | Today we are going to be talking about when someone is in active addiction, |
| 0:37.3 | how that impacts the people around them, |
| 0:40.3 | the people they come into contact with. So imagine being a young woman who gets involved with an older |
| 0:46.1 | man who dazzles her. I know I didn't make great choices when I was in my 20s and I really |
| 0:51.9 | didn't make good choices about the men I dated. I dated a lot of |
| 0:55.3 | men in active addiction. Imagine that you get pregnant by that man, and despite promising that he would |
| 1:01.4 | stand by you, he in fact abandons you and denies paternity. Imagine that man gets sober, remarries, |
| 1:09.0 | and his whole family pretends that you and your child don't exist. |
| 1:14.4 | And imagine that that man is the son of the most powerful man on earth. Today we're going to hear |
| 1:20.1 | London Robert's story. London is the mother of a little girl called Navy and whose father is Hunter |
| 1:26.4 | Biden. London has written a book called Out of the |
| 1:30.8 | Shadows. Welcome to the show, London. Thank you. Now, I believe you're in Arkansas. Is that correct? |
| 1:36.9 | I am. Yeah. I am in Arkansas. So you're just above me. I'm in Alabama. You can tell by my accent. |
| 1:42.8 | Oh, okay. Yeah, I could. |
| 1:47.5 | I say that all the time. I'm from Alabama and people like, what? Yeah, I wouldn't. I wasn't |
| 1:52.3 | expecting that one. I'm British and I now live in the deep self and I just want to say, |
| 1:59.2 | I love it here and I find Southerners to be the friendliest |
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