Photograph | Lou's Story Part 2

You Probably Think This Story’s About You

Brittani Ard

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

3.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This episode references domestic violence and other mature themes. [Lou’s Story Part 2/3] Lou is searching for a photograph of John — but it’s not just a picture she’s after. Beneath the surface of one man’s destruction lies a tangled web of resilience and buried truths waiting to be uncovered. In this chapter layers of manipulation are stripped away, exposing the hauntingly intertwined lives of Eve and Lou —two women forever linked by their shared past with John. As their stories unfold, they confront the ripple effects of trauma, the sinister disguises of control, and the power of reclaiming what was never his to take. From pregnancies to escapes, from shattered illusions to hard-fought reckonings, Lou and Eve retrace their paths, confronting the past as they piece together their present. Each revelation brings them closer to understanding not only John’s shadow over their lives, but the strength they’ve found in breaking free from it. All chapters are available ad free on Patreon: https://patreon.com/BrittaniArd Share your story with Brittani. Production of BDE Unlimited Sponsor information at https://brittaniard.com/sponsors ___ RAINN Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network Helpline https://rainn.org/about-rainn Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Call or Text 988 https://www.988lifeline.org Childhelp Call or Text 800.422.4453 https://www.childhelphotline.org/ National Drug Helpline call 844.289.0879 https://www.drughelpline.org/ National Domestic Violence Hotline www.thehotline.com Narcissist Abuse Resource https://www.helpguide.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	True Story Media.
0:07.2	Some names and details have been changed.
0:10.2	This episode contains mature themes and can be difficult for some listeners.
0:16.0	Please see the show notes for details and resources.
0:23.4	And then it turned to like, I want to get a picture of him.
0:28.2	I don't want to see him.
0:30.0	But I want to put it up somewhere and just go, I can't believe I used to be scared of you.
0:35.4	Like I'd love to have the same thing with spiders, but I wanted to be able to look at it and go,
0:42.4	look at this tiny picture.
0:43.4	You're not scary.
0:44.1	You don't scare me.
0:44.9	And if I saw you now...
0:46.3	That's when she began searching.
0:57.2	You probably think this story is about you. You probably think this story is about you.
1:00.3	I'm Brittany Ard.
1:24.0	This story belongs to Lou. When she saw John at the barbershop, it had been nearly a decade since they had had any contact.
1:28.1	So she started with the last thing she knew.
1:40.9	But I got a phone call after we broke up from his mother saying he's gone missing.
1:43.6	We think he's trying to commit suicide.
1:46.5	Like, this is all your fault. And I was like,
1:50.9	no. And I remember talking to a friend, a family friend of mine, and he was like, delete that number.
1:56.5	The last I had heard was that their house had been raided, which is like, where they turn up at 5 o'clock in the morning, because they know you're going to be there. And he was taken to prison.
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