Father of Many
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Annie’s secret is an epic tale of an unexpected friendship. At the heart of it is her 70-year-old gynecologist—a man she trusted, only to discover he had committed fertility fraud. What began as a complicated yet heartfelt bond spiraled into a whirlwind of emotions, ending in a tragedy that changed everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Ben. My name is Annie, and I became best friends with my 70-year-old gynecologist who had committed |
| 0:05.8 | fertility fraud in the 1980s and whose children are all my age. It was a tumultuous but endearing |
| 0:11.4 | friendship that left me with mixed emotions when it came to a devastating end. I'm not sure if this |
| 0:16.2 | is one big secret or lots of little secrets, but I'm here to tell my epic tale of a great |
| 0:20.2 | friendship and a |
| 0:21.2 | great loss. Today, the secret room presents the father of many. |
| 0:36.5 | As I write this, it's the four-year anniversary of meeting doc. |
| 0:40.0 | There are several secrets in this story, and I've never been able to tell the whole thing start to finish because I haven't wanted anyone to know who he really was, because I don't want to be judged for being so close to and loving such a sicko. |
| 0:51.6 | Any mention of him online is full of vitriol and hate. I can't tell people |
| 0:55.4 | in my regular life that I'd love an opportunity to tell this story on the Secret Room podcast |
| 0:59.6 | and help me get it out of my system. Today on the Secret Room, Annie didn't plan to become |
| 1:06.2 | best friends with her 70-year-old gynecologist, and she definitely didn't plan for him to be at the center of a decades-old fertility scandal, |
| 1:13.7 | but somehow that's what happened. |
| 1:16.1 | This is a secret about a flawed friendship, |
| 1:18.4 | and what happens when the person you trust most reveals the unthinkable? |
| 1:23.3 | I'm Ben Ham. Welcome to the Secret Room. |
| 1:30.1 | Hey, Annie. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 1:32.8 | Hi, Ben. It's great to be here. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:35.5 | You are welcome. It is great to have you here. |
| 1:38.7 | Your story is going to take us somewhere that's almost inconceivable. |
| 1:42.6 | I mean, your story is really quite, I'm not sure if shocking is a right word, but that's |
| 1:47.0 | what I'm going to go with. |
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