What is up Daddy Gang?

It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy.

Bethany Joy Lens, welcome to Call Her Daddy.

Thank you.

Your book, Dinner for Vampires, comes out this week.

Congratulations.

How are you feeling?

I feel proud of it.

You know, people often ask me, are you excited? And I'm thinking, excited is not the right adjective because it's not a story that I was ever really dying to tell. It's not like I

thought, oh, this is, this is great material.

I just live through something traumatic and, you know, you go through therapy and you want to just work through it in your private life.

But that became part of the healing was recognizing how relatable my story was to so many other people

who hadn't been in something as dramatic as a cult. And yet somehow I was finding myself in

conversations with so many women in particular, but so many people who had found themselves

in this kind of dynamic,

relationally.

And the more I had that conversation, the more that brought healing to me.

And then when the opportunity for writing a book came up,

it just felt like this is the right thing to do.

It's also what good are our mistakes if we can't.

It's honestly one of the things I love about you and listening to your show is that there's this sense of like an open mess.

And please don't take that the wrong way.

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