Waking Up | EP 10 | Saskia's Story
Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts
4.6 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Seven years have passed since Saskia’s discovery. This episode is a reflection on how Saskia got here – and how she's trying to move forward.
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Content Warning for rape, tech-enabled sexual abuse, nonconsensual intimate image distribution, and mental health struggles.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.5 | Hi, everyone, Andre here. I have some exciting news to share. |
| 0:09.4 | ABC has turned Betrayal Weekly into an eight-episode anthology, which means each episode |
| 0:15.6 | features one of your favorite Betrayal Weekly stories. You'll get to see the people involved, |
| 0:21.9 | hear from people who have never spoken before, and actually see where the story took place. We are so proud and excited to |
| 0:28.9 | share it with you all. It's called Betrayal Secrets and Lies, and you can watch it every Sunday at 10 p.m. |
| 0:36.8 | Eastern Standard Time, 9 p.m. Central. |
| 0:39.9 | Please check it out. |
| 0:43.9 | Throughout the years we've worked on this show, our team has talked to hundreds of people who've been through some kind of betrayal. |
| 0:52.0 | Some of their stories are about abuse, left undiscovered or unchecked for years. |
| 0:57.3 | Others are about financial crimes or secret identities. But across all of these stories, there are |
| 1:03.9 | similarities. Like in the way people talk about the aftermath and the moment everything changed. |
| 1:09.5 | Our life blew up on April 11th. |
| 1:11.6 | April 2020 is when D-Day happened. |
| 1:15.6 | And everything just blew up. |
| 1:17.6 | All of this blew up our life, our kids' lives, our community. |
| 1:21.6 | He completely ruined my family. |
| 1:25.6 | For so many people, a betrayal is an ending, a death of the life they knew. |
| 1:32.6 | I often get asked if it's depressing, working on stories like this day in, day out. |
| 1:38.4 | And the truth is, a lot of the time, it's the opposite. |
| 1:42.4 | Because as much as these are stories about the moment of destruction, |
| 1:46.6 | they're also about what happens after that moment. How people get up the next day, how they |
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