Love Is No Defense | EP 8 | Saskia's Story
Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts
4.6 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Advocates fight to change the law that protected Mike Levengood.
Content Warning for rape, sexual violation by an intimate partner, and nonconsensual intimate image distribution.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.5 | Hi, everyone, Andre here. I have some exciting news to share. |
| 0:09.4 | ABC has turned Betrayal Weekly into an eight-episode anthology, which means each episode |
| 0:15.6 | features one of your favorite Betrayal Weekly stories. You'll get to see the people involved, |
| 0:21.9 | hear from people who have never spoken before, and actually see where the story took place. We are so proud and excited to |
| 0:28.9 | share it with you all. It's called Betrayal Secrets and Lies, and you can watch it every Sunday at 10 p.m. |
| 0:36.8 | Eastern Standard Time, 9 p.m. Central. |
| 0:39.9 | Please check it out. |
| 0:45.9 | Earlier this season, we went through Saskia's divorce trial. |
| 0:49.5 | We talked about all the hurdles that Saskia had to overcome, all the insults she had to endure, |
| 0:56.4 | just to end her marriage. But I want to go back to that trial for a second, because there's |
| 1:02.2 | one more moment you need to hear. It's the devil in the details. What's on the screen here is |
| 1:09.8 | Vendant's Exhibit 3. |
| 1:13.2 | This is audio from the middle of the divorce trial, during Mike's cross-examination. |
| 1:18.9 | Saskia's attorney began by quoting Mike's initial divorce filing. |
| 1:23.5 | Paragraph 8 says all of these acts were consensual, and in paragraph 10, that all of these allegations are false and defamatory, cause a serious threat to your good reputation. |
| 1:34.5 | You recall making those statements? |
| 1:37.8 | Yes. |
| 1:39.2 | The statements about this being a betrayal and that all acts were consensual, those were false statements, correct? |
| 1:49.5 | Those are not false statements. |
| 1:52.3 | Well, we know that not all the acts were consensual, right? |
| 1:56.5 | I maintain they were consensual, absolutely. |
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