BONUS EP 5: Melissa’s Listener Essay

Betrayal: Weekly

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture, Relationships

3.7 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In our first listener essay, Melissa reads her account of resilience and healing after her father’s betrayal.

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0:00.0	In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.
0:05.8	Someone was posting photos.
0:08.1	It was just me naked.
0:09.5	Well, not me, but me with someone else's body part.
0:13.2	This is Levitown, a new podcast from IHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Colliderscope,
0:18.2	about the rise of deep fate pornography and the battle to stop it.
0:22.1	Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.9	After a crime, you read the headlines, but do you know the story?
0:40.2	At the time that I called a place he knew, I had called him and left the house with a firearm
0:43.8	and was texting me that he was going to use it.
0:47.2	I'm Hannah Smith, and I'm Pasha Eaton.
0:49.7	We host The Knife, a podcast from the Exactly Right Network that cuts to the heart of the story.
0:55.8	Through in-depth interviews and candid conversations, we'll bring you firsthand accounts of people living through the ripple effects of crime.
1:04.1	Most of us don't know the legal process, and because they always tell you this word closure. I really wish people would stop using that word
1:12.0	because there is no such thing as closure.
1:14.1	These are the scars that are left behind.
1:16.4	These are the voices you haven't heard.
1:18.7	New episodes every Thursday.
1:21.0	Listen to the Knife on the IHeartRadio app,
1:23.4	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:29.8	Ever wonder what it would be like to be mentored by today's top business leaders?
1:34.1	My podcast, This Is Working, can help with that.
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