Hello and welcome to Juicy Crimes. I am speaking to a victim turned survivor whose story I found

on social media, beautiful, smart, articulate young mom. I'm very excited to have

Kenna Renee Harper on the show to tell us her insane story about her mother and the crime that

she committed. Welcome to the show. I'm so glad you could make it.

Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor. Thank you. Well, I came across you talking about

your true story of how your mother tried to kill you and did spend time in prison for it. And I immediately

just wanted to reach out to you and kind of get your story here. Let's just start for the

beginning. What was your childhood like from your earliest, earliest memory? Yeah, I think I always was introduced to chaos but didn't know it at the

time. I had parents who were divorced. I think they were married, well, pregnant, married and divorced all

within my first year. And they were blended families. So my mom had a child before my dad and my dad had

children before my mom and then they had me, but I was the only one from them too. And then they

lived in different states. So the divorce caused me to go back and forth. Between what two areas

were you going from? So initially it was Idaho and Washington and then my mom moved around a

ton. So then it was, you know, Portland, Westland area, then back up to the Seattle area. So I was always on

a plane, always between houses and always integrated into a blended family. And I had some of my earliest memories, I just, I thought were

normal. My mom honestly was my best friend for the first, I would say seven or eight years in my life.

I felt like I had a pretty normal childhood. I look back now and it was a very codependent relationship,

but I did everything with my mom. She got me into dance. She got me into, you know, all of the things I wanted to do, basketball, soccer. She was the soccer mom. She was like everything. When you say I'm going to go, when you say it was a codependent relationship, are you now recognizing as an adult that you as a child were codependent on making

sure she was okay and feeling that she was okay? So there was a little that going on? Is that what

you're talking about? Yes. And almost I'm realizing it now. It was enmeshment. Also, my mom was

heavily reliant on me for her emotions as well.

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