S15 Ep8: [Lex Fitzgerald] Actively Seeking to Cause Us Harm

Something Was Wrong

Broken Cycle Media

True Crime, Documentary, Education, Society & Culture

4.1 • 24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

*Content Warning: emotional and mental abuse, bullying, defamation, false accusations of child abuse, ableism, hate speech (r-word), slander, stalking, cyber gang stalking, harassment, invasion of privacy.

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Episode Sources:

Lex Fitzgerald’s Instagram: @lex.fitzgerald

The Fitzgeralds on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFitzgeralds

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0:00.0	Something was wrong is intended for mature audiences, as it discusses topics that can be upsetting,
0:06.1	such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence.
0:09.5	Content warnings for each episode and confidential and free resources for survivors can be found
0:15.6	in the episode notes.
0:17.5	Some survivor names have been changed for anonymity purposes.
0:21.5	pseudonyms are given to minors in these stories for their privacy and protection.
0:26.3	Testimony shared by guests on this show is their own and does not necessarily reflect the
0:31.3	views of myself, broken cycle media, or wondering. The podcast or any linked materials
0:37.1	should not be construed as medical advice,
0:39.9	nor is the information a substitute for professional expertise or treatment. All persons are
0:46.1	considered innocent and less proven guilty in a court of law. Thank you so much for listening.
0:52.7	You think you know me, you don't know me well. you so much for listening. Hi, you don't know anybody until you talk to someone.
1:32.0	Hi, my name is Lex.
1:35.6	I'm 32 and a mom to four little ones.
1:40.9	I have a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, a 2-year-old, and a 7-month-old.
1:49.8	My husband and I, we met in 2011 and got married in the spring of 2015. We currently live in Fort Worth, Texas, but we were both born and raised in New York. We knew that we always wanted
1:55.0	to have a big family, so later that year we began trying for our first baby. It was during this time, I became
2:02.6	familiar with YouTube. I had always thought it was for things like funny cat videos. I was unaware
2:09.2	that there was so much information available on YouTube. My mom was living in South Africa.
2:15.9	That's where she's from. So I began posting my pregnancy updates for my family to watch. And that's sort of how I became introduced to YouTube. I had had zero interest in becoming a YouTuber. Back then, I wasn't even really tech savvy enough to know what that would entail.
2:35.8	It just wasn't as big of a thing as it is now. I would say the biggest misconception of content
2:44.0	creation is that it's easy. When I first started out creating videos on YouTube, I wasn't making anything, literally $0.
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