Helen | Betrayal Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Relationships

3.7 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Helen’s world revolved around her mother. After her mom passes, she leaves something behind that reshapes Helen’s past and challenges her understanding of who her mom truly was.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.4	There's this feeling that moms are good.
0:09.8	No matter what, moms are good.
0:12.1	Even if they do the wrong thing, it's because they love you so much.
0:16.6	If you need to accept the lie to live, then you accept the lie.
0:33.5	I'm Andre Gunning and this is Betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most and the
0:39.6	deceptions that change everything.
0:45.4	Today we're telling Helen Naylor's story.
0:48.5	Helen grew up in the Midlands of the UK.
0:51.1	The place where I was born was a really little town.
0:55.0	So you basically knew everybody and I'd walk through town and bump into ten people I knew.
1:01.0	She was an only child.
1:03.0	Her parents were Eleanor and Alan.
1:05.0	We lived in a really nice three bedroom semi-detached, which was painted yellow with a bright blue door.
1:13.4	They have very 70s taste in decor,
1:17.3	so it's like swirly brown carpets,
1:20.0	and very peach.
1:22.1	If there was a colour choice, it was peach.
1:25.2	Helen's parents were older than her friend's parents.
1:28.4	Mum was 35 when she had me. My dad was over 40. And at the time, that was quite a big deal.
1:37.2	Helen was very young when her dad's health took a turn for the worse. When I was seven, my dad was
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