Nobody Should Believe Me Season 5 Trailer

You Probably Think This Story’s About You

Brittani Ard

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships

3.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Season five of Nobody Should Believe Me tells the story of Sophie Hartman: a young, white midwestern evangelical missionary who travels to Zambia and comes home with two vulnerable sisters in her care. When she returns to the states, she lands far away from her family in Seattle, WA where she embarks on a medical odyssey with her younger daughter, C, reporting a variety of alarming symptoms: from chronic vomiting, to seizures, to days-long episodes of full-body paralysis. Eventually, C is diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder called Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood. Sophie weaves a tale of a child who could “leave us anytime” and uses the child’s illness to fundraise tens of thousands of dollars for special equipment and medical expenses, takes C on a Make-A-Wish trip, posts constantly about her family’s plight on her prolific social media accounts, and even writes a memoir about the story of her journey to adopt her. But is Sophie really the heroic mother of a sick child, or is she the ultimate unreliable narrator? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	True Story Media.
0:07.6	This season on Nobody Should Believe me, we're covering a story that happened right in my own backyard.
0:14.2	There is a family in Renton that I want to introduce you to mom, Sophie, went on an inspiring
0:19.2	trip to Zambia in her college year. She's since adopted two
0:22.8	girls. One of them has an incredibly rare disorder. Doctors say it's a one in a million chance.
0:30.7	Sophie Hartman's family was in the spotlight in 2019 as she fundraised on behalf of her supposedly
0:36.1	sick child. But in the spring of 2021, it all came crashing down.
0:41.1	So this is Detective Orworth with the Rentson Police Department.
0:43.4	Can you just state your name for me?
0:44.6	Sophie Hartman.
0:45.6	In 2019, King 5 first met Sophie Hartman after she adopted two sisters from Zambia.
0:50.7	She told us one has a rare neurological disorder called alternating hemiplegia of
0:55.8	childhood or AHC. Today she faces second degree assault charges against a child, her own daughter.
1:02.3	If she wasn't guilty of these allegations, how horrific. I mean, she seems like a saint.
1:07.8	Supposedly has this very this very rare, progressive disease.
1:13.8	But from my observations, she's like the healthiest kid
1:16.6	ever seen her life.
1:17.9	Would it surprise you if I told you that AHC is not a terminal disease?
1:23.2	Yes, it would.
1:24.9	And we, as Haven Church, got the opportunity to support her and hold her up with our prayers
1:31.5	and doing whatever we could to help her to get through that situation.
1:39.0	She allegedly had this journal entry that talked about how she had an issue with lying.
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