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My mom was the first one to be like,

does this seem off at all to you?

It was really the first time someone said something

that made me think, what do you mean off?

Like I was immediately defensive.

No, no, no. like I was immediately defensive. I'm Andrea Gunning and this is Betrayal,

a show about the people we trust the most

and the deceptions that change everything.

When I hear other people's horrific stories of things that have happened to them,

I now have a lens of what a human experience to love so deeply that we're willing to suspend disbelief that high is like,

I truly believe that deception really comes

from a deep desire to be loved, and I can sympathize with a desire to be loved. This is Kelsey's story

of building her life around someone else's lies. Lies that consumed Kelsey's 20s, derailed her early

career, and destroyed her sense of trust.

For many years, she tried to hide from the deception she experienced. But now, she's ready to tell her story.

As a listener note, names and locations have been changed to protect privacy.

When she was a little girl, Kelsey's mom told her the origin story of their family unit.

It was a survival story.

My dad was really abusive to all of us kids and my mom.

And so my mom was finally able to get out

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