E973 Ask Nick - My Therapist Is Bestie’s Toxic Ex
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
4 • 24.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Our first caller’s best friend is a deadbeat dad. Our second caller is debating telling her friend that her soon-to-be ex husband was her therapist. And, our third caller wants to know how to move on from her ex who held her keys hostage and hid a social media scandal from her?
“You HAVE to tell her!"
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Timestamps:
(00:00) - Intro
(01:05) - Caller One
(38:17) - Caller Two
(01:17:19) - Caller Three
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| 1:02.7 | See MintMobile for details. How's it going. Hey, Nick. My name's Sadie. I'm 35 and my husband and I's best friend is a deadbeat dad, and we're not sure where to go from here. |
| 1:28.0 | Is he, I mean, not that it really matters. |
| 1:30.3 | Are you friends with them through like your husband? |
| 1:32.2 | Is it like a mutual college friend that you're both friends with? |
| 1:34.8 | Yes, I met him through my husband. |
| 1:37.5 | Him and I have since become very close. |
| 1:40.7 | We, you know, over the years through all of his relationship experiences, I'm kind of his go-to for advice. |
| 1:48.4 | Like, he just called me this morning. |
| 1:50.1 | We talked for an hour about his current-ass relationship. |
| 1:54.1 | But he, if you like, I can go ahead and give you some background on the context of why he is a dad is really important. So I can definitely |
| 2:04.8 | jump into that. So essentially, our friend was in a very toxic relationship and he finally |
| 2:12.3 | broke up with her. It dragged on for an unnecessary amount of time. Then she ended up showing |
| 2:17.4 | back up at his house a |
| 2:18.5 | couple days later. They ended up sleeping together and she got pregnant. Come to find out she actually |
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