Ep. - 1672 - A TOXIC LOVE STORY
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
She spent 88 days in jail for a rape plot that was never real, and the man who reported her to police was the same deputy U.S. marshal she used to be engaged to. Kate breaks down the true story behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story: the faked pregnancy, the forged cancer diagnosis, the Craigslist rape-fantasy ads, and the staged 911 call that sent Michelle Hadley to prison for a crime her ex-fiancé and his new wife invented from scratch.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey. |
| 0:07.0 | I hope that you have had a great week. |
| 0:08.6 | I want to make sure that you go back and listen to this week's previous episodes. |
| 0:12.1 | I have a two-part episode about the ultimatum on Netflix, which is truly an insane show. |
| 0:17.8 | The concept is wacky. |
| 0:19.8 | We had the best time reviewing it if you need a good |
| 0:22.8 | laugh this week. I'm telling you go back and listen to it. And then for something a little bit more |
| 0:26.7 | thought-provoking, you can listen to my episode with Sophia Maddox and the director of my |
| 0:32.5 | grandfather Charles Manson, which is a Hulu documentary. And then look out for the Saturday |
| 0:37.4 | series episode |
| 0:38.1 | this week with a fantastic guest. Today's episode is about a Netflix documentary called A Toxic |
| 0:43.7 | Love Story. So imagine spending 88 days in a jail cell. And for a crime that never happened, |
| 0:52.3 | arranged, prosecuted, and reported on you by the very people who committed it. |
| 0:57.8 | This is actually not a plot twist. That's Michelle Hadley's actual life. And this week, Netflix dropped |
| 1:04.1 | the documentary telling her story. Again, it is called a toxic love story, and it's streaming now. |
| 1:09.4 | I have read the court filings. I've read the DA's |
| 1:12.0 | press conference transcripts, and I've read the federal indictment. And I have to tell you, |
| 1:16.9 | the documentary, even in 88 minutes, barely has room for all of it. So because this isn't just a |
| 1:23.0 | story about one bad breakup that's spiraled, it's really a story about a faked pregnancy. And as you know, |
| 1:30.8 | with my interview with Clayton Eckhart, that is something that really is of interested people as |
| 1:36.8 | of late. Why would someone fake a pregnancy? Well, this story is even more. Not only a faked pregnancy, |
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