Mum's Secret Illness

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On the outside Helen Naylor had a pretty standard childhood. She had a father, a mother and roof over her head. But all was not as it seemed. In 2016, 2 years after her mother’s death, Helen discovered her diaries. And in those diaries lay not only the truth about her mother’s medical conditions. But also the truth about Helen’s upbringing. A Somethin’ Else Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a typical gray winter's day in the English city of Nottingham.
0:11.9	There's wind and rain.
0:14.1	You know, it's the kind of day you just want to stay inside and cuddle up with a good
0:17.6	book.
0:20.0	Helen Naylor is chilling at her home.
0:23.7	She's bored.
0:25.2	Her kids are at school and her husband's at work.
0:29.9	Nothing to do and eager to pass the time, she heads up to her law.
0:36.9	It's a room that's big and dark and filled with a bunch of junk.
0:42.2	Among the junk is a box filled with colorful pocket-sized diaries, some of which are older
0:47.3	than Helen herself.
0:49.7	The diaries belong to someone very close to Helen, someone she owed her entire life
0:54.2	to.
0:55.7	Her mother.
0:57.0	I did feel really close to my mom and I thought we had an unusually positive relationship.
1:04.7	Helen flicks through the old dusty diaries, hoping to relive a few memories of her childhood.
1:11.3	You know that amazing day at the theme park or the zoo.
1:15.1	The time Helen made her mom laugh or even proud.
1:19.8	Trouble is, this trip down memory lane took her to a dark place.
1:26.1	And as Helen sat there reading, eyes wide open, she slowly began learning the truth about
1:31.3	her mother and the truth about her childhood.
1:34.8	Nobody likes to be played for a fool.
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