I went home and I pulled up my shirt and I said I got laughed at today and this is why.

There's something wrong and my mother's reaction was so interesting.

It was like her face was very blank.

That's Alison Landa speaking about the realization that changed her life and I was of course

in tears.

I was something that I never expected would have happened to me and then when I realized

this is not just happening to me, this is who and what I am.

I needed her to help me and I started to realize in that moment, help is not a foot.

This is probably not going to happen.

I'm Danny Shapiro and welcome to the new season of Family Secrets.

It's hard to believe we're entering our eighth season and yet we're constantly discovering

new secrets.

The depths of them, the variety of them continues to be astonishing.

I can't wait to share ten incredible stories with you, stories of tenacity, resilience

and the profoundly necessary excavation of long-held family secrets.

Welcome to season eight which drops on Thursday, May 4.

Here's Isaac Fitzgerald, reflecting on New Year's Eve 1999 and the promise of a new millennium.

We were excited, yeah, clean slate and we couldn't wait for it because why not restart?

Look at all the things that were going wrong.

One of the movies that we're very drawn to which was that same kind of time period was

Cyclops.

What we really loved about that filter was it ends with this wiping of the deck, this idea

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