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The Lies That Bind

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RISK!

Arts, Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Performing Arts

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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DESCRIPTION: Mishelle tells Taj her story of a lifetime lived with an abusive mother in an environment of relentless lies, instability and unspeakable violence.  Check out all of our Conversation Stories! 🎙️Conversation Story: The Lies that Bind by Mishelle Roberts SYNOPSIS: (CONTENT NOTE: child abuse, child murder) Mishelle tells Taj about growing up in the shadow of hospitals, horrific medical drama, and a web of lies that defined her entire life. As an adult, she starts to uncover what was really happening and discovers that the lies were bigger and darker than she ever could’ve imagined. Mishelle’s story was also the focus of Season Six of Nobody Should Believe Me.  keywords: Munchausen by proxy, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, medical abuse, child abuse, family secrets, attention seeking, childhood trauma, gaslighting, sibling death, mother-daughter conflict, Nobody Should Believe Me, podcast journalism 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved • 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on Dec 11th! • ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ • ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ • 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ • 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠ • 🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.0

Hey, everybody. This is Brisk, the show where people tell true story that you're not sure whether to believe or not because they're so fantastic and outlandish.

1:21.3

I'm Talibur, and this is one of our conversation story episodes.

1:26.2

This story is so fantastic and tenderly and honestly told

1:30.1

that you are going to lose your shit. I hope you don't drive off the road or lose your job.

1:36.2

Cut your finger off or drill a hole into your hand. Also, if you're around people that you don't

1:42.7

want to see you sobbing like an emotionally healthy

1:45.6

person, then turn this off right now.

1:49.0

Choose a different podcast.

1:51.9

Don't listen unless you're prepared to be an emotional wreck in whatever setting you may be in right now.

1:59.4

This episode contains child abuse, child murder,

2:04.5

poisoning, incredibly disturbing human behavior. So if you're not in the mood for that today,

2:11.7

I'd skip this, come back to it later, come back to it, never decide for yourself.

2:24.1

The story came to us because I worked on a show called Nobody Should Believe Me,

2:25.6

which is incredibly good.

2:28.3

I hope you'll all go listen to it.

2:29.6

I imagine you will.

2:35.2

I imagine you won't be able to help yourself after falling in love with Michelle by listening to her for this amount of time and hearing the unbelievable story she's about to tell.

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