Grandma's Secret Prayer
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Angela tells how as a kid all she wanted was her mom. And all her mom wanted to do was teach her how to melt crack. It's a backstory no one would suspect, including her daughter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Ben. My name is Angela, and my secret is that while trying to form a relationship with my mom at 15, |
| 0:10.6 | the only thing she taught me was how to manipulate, steal, and melt down her crack. It's my backstory. |
| 0:16.6 | I can't tell people for obvious reasons. |
| 0:27.3 | Today, my guest, Angela, is here to reveal her eye-popping secret backstory that lies in stark contrast to the normal life she lives today. |
| 0:30.1 | It's a story of escaping a terrible childhood and how a dead body in the bushes should have |
| 0:34.9 | been a warning sign. |
| 0:36.1 | Here we go. |
| 0:41.3 | Hi, Angela, and welcome to the secret room. Thank you for having me. Well, you're welcome. We just heard your secret and all I can say is |
| 0:48.0 | wow and thank you for coming forward to share. Of course. Thank you. Yes. |
| 0:54.6 | We had a really tough childhood. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah, it was definitely difficult in some aspects, but I feel like when I think about |
| 1:03.8 | it now, I don't really think that I would change too much because of my grandparents. |
| 1:10.1 | They definitely saved me. So you're saying things worked out. |
| 1:13.5 | Yes. But your backstory is not something you can tell people because of how they would think of you. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah. I have grown into like a professional and it's just not really something that anybody would necessarily expect. |
| 1:30.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.1 | And in a world where, you know, everybody judges you for everything. |
| 1:37.7 | If I don't have to share it, I really don't. |
| 1:39.9 | Makes a lot of sense to me. |
| 1:41.4 | Well, we'll get into it. |
| 1:42.9 | Okay. |
| 1:43.6 | How did your parents meet? |
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