From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. There are sometimes in the course of our history

where names become a joke, become part of the popular

lore, and we don't really investigate

the circumstances behind these names the extent

that we should. The compelling new doc series

on Amazon, Lorena,

about Lorena Bobbitt,

is just one of those

things that takes a much deeper dive into

that whole phenomenon of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt.

Its director, Joshua Rofay sitting across me, thanks for coming here and to do this, first of all.

And it really is one of those things that people, as you show in the opening,

where she sits down with Steve Harvey, who does basically the same tire jokes we've been hearing about this for the last almost 30 years now.

Thank you for having me, Ellis.

It is kind of unbelievable that she, 25 years ago, was on the stand during her trial, having a panic attack, testifying about the way she was raped, beaten, and sodomized.

And the takeaway in the aftermath was that this is just this hilarious story about a cut-off penis.

I mean, the second episode really goes into them.

I mean, you have so many clips of, and we can forget that the people, she's the subject

ridicule everywhere.

Everywhere.

Even on the news show she's being the subject of ridicule everywhere everywhere even on on the

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