A Reckoning: Clark Fredericks Confronts Abuse

DEVIANT

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4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED In this episode of Deviant Off Script, host Andrew Iden engages in a deep and intense conversation with Clark Fredericks, author of 'Scarred.' Fredericks recounts his harrowing journey of surviving childhood sexual abuse, and the impactful decision to confront and ultimately kill his abuser. He delves into the psychological and emotional turmoil that ensued, his struggles with substance abuse, and his path through the legal system. Fredericks also discusses his process of healing and transformation into a motivational speaker and advocate, aiming to help others overcome their trauma. This episode provides a raw and honest examination of the complexities of confronting one's past, and seeking justice on one's own terms. GET CLARK'S INCREDIBLE BOOK: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Scarred/Clark-Fredericks/9781668018651 JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast READ THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT: ⁠⁠https://go.happinessexperiment.com/begin-aff-o2?am_id=podcast2025&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=michael⁠⁠ Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome back to Deviant Offscript, our conversation series.
0:33.9	I want to take a moment to talk a little bit about today's guest.
0:37.0	A gentleman by the name of
0:38.0	Clark Fredericks. And Clark has an amazing story. And I want to tell you kind of up front. For a number
0:45.5	of reasons, this is a really hard, hard conversation. Clark has been through a lot. He has dealt with a lot.
0:53.3	And it's a tough listen in a lot of places this conversation, but it's also an important listen because we don't often get to have conversations with people who really know how to express the level of difficulty and problems that abuse as a child can lead to. And Clark is
1:15.5	uniquely positioned to talk about that. He was sexually abused and abused in a number of
1:20.5	different ways as a kid. But what he does is he talks about that with a lot of candor and with a
1:26.1	lot of frank honesty. And he's got a new book out called Scard, which really talks about that with a lot of candor and with a lot of frank honesty.
1:33.6	And he's got a new book out called Scard, which really tells his story from start to finish. Because obviously, as you might imagine, that abuse leads to a lot of problems as an adult,
1:38.5	substance abuse, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, etc.
1:41.4	But also, I'll tell you up front, Clark also spent time in prison because what
1:45.7	he did was during his, you know, his adult life, he reckoned with that abuse and he killed
1:53.6	his abuser. And he talks about that in this conversation. So with that said, here's Clark
2:00.7	Fredericks, the author of Scard.
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