The Making of Season 5 | BONUS
Betrayal Weekly
iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts
4.2 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The Betrayal team takes you behind the scenes of Season 5 – unpacking how Saskia’s story came to be, and all the memorable moments along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Andrea Gunning, and this is betrayal. |
| 0:17.7 | Today, we have another bonus episode. |
| 0:21.1 | Now that season five is over, I wanted to get the whole team together, our producers, |
| 0:25.9 | our editors, to talk about how the season came to be and all of the moments that stuck with us |
| 0:31.2 | along the way. Here's our conversation. |
| 0:34.4 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:35.9 | Hi. Hi. |
| 0:47.3 | We did this last year where after we released season four, we got together and talked about all of our favorite moments, what it was like producing the season. And I thought that it would be kind of fun to do it again. Maybe where we can start is going around and everyone introduce themselves and tell a little bit |
| 0:58.3 | about how you worked on the show. Yeah, sure. Hi, I'm Caitlin Golden and I helped to produce this |
| 1:04.9 | season. Hi, I'm Carrie Hartman, also a producer. I'm Monique Laborde. I'm the story editor on the last two seasons of |
| 1:12.7 | betrayal. I'm Matt Del Vickie. I am a sound engineer on betrayal. And I'm Tanner Robbins. I am one of |
| 1:22.7 | the audio editors. I think a really great place to start is how we found the story in the first place. |
| 1:31.4 | I think this question goes to Caitlin. |
| 1:33.5 | Can you tell us a little bit about how this season and how Saskia's story came to be? |
| 1:38.7 | Yeah, I started at Glass about two years ago as an associate producer when Carrie and Mo were running production |
| 1:49.1 | on betrayal. And one of my big jobs was going through the email inbox where people, you know, |
| 1:55.4 | write in with their thoughts about the show, but also kind of most importantly, they're writing |
| 2:00.1 | with their own stories of betrayal. |
| 2:03.2 | So Saskia, she sent an email September 24, which is the same month that Giselle Pelico went to |
| 2:09.2 | trial for the rape case of her husband. I actually pulled up her initial email. I want to read it. |
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