What if your daughter committed a seemingly unforgivable act? [Rebroadcast Ep182]
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
After a traumatic childhood, a young woman spirals into mental illness and in her darkest moment makes an unthinkable decision that will change her family forever.
Today’s episode featured Brittany. You can read more about Brittany, and her current life updates on her blog at becomingB.com.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: mental illness, alcoholism, self-harm, sexual abuse, rape, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, car accident, near death experience, severe injury, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening |
| 0:05.0 | by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.6 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:13.9 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:17.0 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you. episode and for more information about support services. Hi listeners. Today we bring you the third episode of our annual three-week winter |
| 0:31.1 | rebroadcast series. We'll return with all new episodes starting January 13th. |
| 0:36.3 | Today's rebroadcast episode, What If You Committed |
| 0:38.8 | A Seemingly Unforgivable Act, originally aired as Episode 181 on March 9th, 2021. This episode is the |
| 0:47.3 | first of a two-part series. Today, we feature the story from Brittany's perspective, and in the |
| 0:52.3 | second part of the series, later this week, we'll feature her mother, who shares the story from Brittany's perspective, and in the second part of the series, later this week, |
| 0:54.6 | will feature her mother who shares the story from her perspective. |
| 0:59.7 | I could not control my emotions whatsoever. I just kept saying, I don't know, I'm sorry. I don't |
| 1:07.0 | know. It's all my fault. I can't believe I just did that. |
| 1:10.9 | Like, I'm in disbelief. |
| 1:19.6 | From Wondery, I'm Witt Misseldine. |
| 1:23.2 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:29.9 | Episode 1.89. You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. Episode 181. |
| 1:33.4 | What if you committed a seemingly unforgivable act? |
| 1:51.5 | Startups move fast, and with AI, they're shipping even faster, and attracting enterprise buyers sooner. |
| 1:56.2 | But big deals bring even bigger security and compliance requirements. |
| 1:58.8 | The SOC2 isn't always enough. |
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