“Why did you buy more bones?”
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Sisters Brittany Walsh and Nicole O’Neil have always been close. But when Nicole started experiencing mysterious health problems, her turn toward alternative treatments divided them. As Nicole spent more and more money on dubious cure-alls, Brittany was faced with a question: What do you do when you’re afraid the person closest to you might be losing themselves?
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| 0:00.0 | Brittany Walsh has always been really close to her older sister. |
| 0:06.0 | She's the first person she calls when she has a problem or just wants to talk. |
| 0:10.0 | But back in 2014, the two were starting to butt heads. |
| 0:14.3 | It's really hard to be fighting with the person that you are closest to, |
| 0:20.1 | the person you share all of your secrets to about something that they're doing to themselves. |
| 0:27.0 | Brittany's older sister, Nicole O'Neill, was dealing with some mysterious health problems, |
| 0:32.0 | and she was going on overdrive trying to find a fit. was dealing with some mysterious health problems, |
| 0:32.6 | and she was going on overdrive trying to find a fix, |
| 0:35.3 | trying everything from vitamins and supplements |
| 0:38.0 | to holistic practitioners and extreme diets. |
| 0:41.6 | And this new lifestyle wasn't cheap. Brittany could tell that it was |
| 0:45.3 | destroying her sister's finances. I noticed the most like how much this was all |
| 0:51.3 | costing when she stopped asking for gifts for Christmas and |
| 0:58.1 | started asking for a grocery store gift card. But Bernie felt too nervous to question her older sister |
| 1:05.1 | Nicole. She didn't want to make things worse. And it wasn't until we all sat down |
| 1:09.6 | together that she realized how much Nicole had spent in her quest to get healthy. |
| 1:14.0 | I don't like to fight with you and approaching you about any of this |
| 1:21.0 | would turn into a fight. |
| 1:25.3 | Nicole, have you ever shared with Brittany how much you were spending on your new lifestyle? |
| 1:35.0 | I don't I probably not. No I don't think so. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm honestly afraid to know the number. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, do you feel comfortable sharing it now? |
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