Speaker 1: This is a freaking lifetime movie. An next say he
Speaker 1: deserves an Oscar. He really deserves an Oscar. I'm like,
Speaker 1: am I lose? In my mind? I could believe it
Speaker 1: was happening to me.
Speaker 2: I'm Andrea Gunning and this is Betrayal, A show about
Speaker 2: the people we trust the most and the deceptions that
Speaker 2: change everything. Nancy grew up in Boston in the seventies.
Speaker 2: She was the youngest of three girls. From birth, she
Speaker 2: was deemed a medical miracle.
Speaker 1: When I was born, they told my mother that I'm
Speaker 1: going to die in three days because i have a
Speaker 1: pin hole in my heart and it's twisted. Now She's like,
Speaker 1: I don't think so she took me home. They toltally, well, she's.
Speaker 3: Gonna have to have open hot surgery.
Speaker 1: By the time she's sighed. Didn't, well, she's gonna have to.
Speaker 3: Have at least by eighteen, and she's gonna die. Didn't
Speaker 3: I'm fifty five.
Speaker 1: I've never had open hot surgery.
Speaker 2: Because of her heart condition, her mother kept a close
Speaker 2: eye on her. Her activities were restricted. She wasn't even
Speaker 2: allowed to go to gym class in school. Family and
Speaker 2: teachers babied her, mostly because she was so small.
Speaker 1: I'm only four eleven, and when I was five years well,
Speaker 1: I think I actually have a picture. I looked like
Speaker 1: him too, so everybody treated me like I was the
Speaker 1: baby all the time.
Speaker 2: As a kid, Nancy went to the cardiologist every week
Speaker 2: for her heart condition. She wasn't scared about it, but
Speaker 2: she knew her mom was.
Speaker 1: I even remember being over her friend's house. We'd be
Speaker 1: playing with their children, and they'd be in the kitchen talking,
Speaker 1: drinking or whatever, and I would hear her crying and
Speaker 1: telling her friend, I'm so afraid that she's just gonna
Speaker 1: die on me one day.
Speaker 3: I never told her I heard that never.
Speaker 2: She surpassed medical expectations and grew up to be healthy,
Speaker 2: but doctors told her she wouldn't be able to have
Speaker 2: kids of her own. The entire experience made Nancy and
Speaker 2: her mom really close.
Speaker 1: I didn't hang out with friends on Saturday night. I
Speaker 1: hang out with my mother because she's just my best friend.
Speaker 1: Everybody who loved her because she was just down to earth.
Speaker 2: Early on in her life, Nancy saw that her father
Speaker 2: was treated differently than her mother.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, my mother and my father used
Speaker 1: to get pulled over a lot and the cost would
Speaker 1: ask my mother, is he hurting you?
Speaker 3: Because she's white?
Speaker 2: Her father was black, and other kids tease Nancy about
Speaker 2: having interracial parents.
Speaker 1: It's like, what's wrong with your mother? There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with my mother. What are you talking about? My mother
Speaker 1: never paid attention to it. She said, if you pay attention,
Speaker 1: that's given them more energy to do what they're doing.
Speaker 2: When Nancy was a teenager, she met a boy in
Speaker 2: her neighborhood named Devon. He was always trying to catch
Speaker 2: her eye, so.
Speaker 1: I'm like, who is this person? And he was extremely handsome.
Speaker 2: One day, Devon brought her a present.
Speaker 1: So he heard that I love saft served and ELASTI
Speaker 1: with colored Jimmys. From that day on, we were together.
Speaker 2: She and Devon became high school sweethearts.
Speaker 1: We were a class couple, of course we were. We
Speaker 1: were together all the time. It was like nothing could
Speaker 1: come between us.
Speaker 2: Their plan was to be together forever, and to this day,
Speaker 2: Nancy still wishes they could have been, but tragedy derailed
Speaker 2: their future.
Speaker 1: I had heard that there was this extremely bad car accident,
Speaker 1: and I was in a school that sat up on
Speaker 1: a hill, so you could see, like the police cause
Speaker 1: and the ambulances all that.
Speaker 3: That looks like a really bad accident up there.
Speaker 1: Everybody knew but me. Nobody wanted to tell me because
Speaker 1: they were afraid to tell me. He was in that
Speaker 1: car accident.
Speaker 2: He was a passenger in the collision and they needed
Speaker 2: the jaws of life to pull him out of the car.
Speaker 1: And I found out the person who told me said
Speaker 1: he was in a car accident and he died. I
Speaker 1: passed out, woke up in the Narses office and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I didn't just hear what she said. The nurse said
Speaker 1: he wasn't a carson, but he's not dead. He was
Speaker 1: at a coma for three days. I went every day,
Speaker 1: waited in the room. Every day, wait in the room,
Speaker 1: talked to him.
Speaker 2: She was by his side when he woke up from
Speaker 2: the coma.
Speaker 1: But when he woke up, it was a different person,
Speaker 1: you know. They asked things like when's your birthday, what's
Speaker 1: your name? Who's the president? Things like that. He said
Speaker 1: his name was Robert.
Speaker 3: Something and he was born in nineteen twenty one.
Speaker 2: DeVaughn was never the same.
Speaker 1: After that. He started smoking cigarettes, never spoke, he was
Speaker 1: like completely against it. He started drinking, swearing and he
Speaker 1: was like mean sometimes and I'm like, who is this person.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, Okay, it's gonna get better. It's going
Speaker 3: to get better.
Speaker 1: That better.
Speaker 2: After his traumatic brain injury, it wasn't the same relationship.
Speaker 2: It was a lot for a seventeen year old to
Speaker 2: manage emotionally.
Speaker 3: I felt like he died in that. To me, he
Speaker 3: died in that accident.
Speaker 2: Nancy made the tough decision to leave Devon and focus
Speaker 2: on herself. She started her own life in Boston, working
Speaker 2: in the office of a stock brokerage. By her early twenties,
Speaker 2: she was living on her own and fully supporting herself.
Speaker 3: And a beautiful condo in my house was fully furnished.
Speaker 2: Every day, on her lunch break, Nancy chatted with a
Speaker 2: guy who worked outside her building.
Speaker 3: I worked in the financial district.
Speaker 1: It was always constructing going on at the Liberty Mutual building,
Speaker 1: and you know, the construction guys would do the cat
Speaker 1: calling when the girls walked by.
Speaker 3: But there was this one guy. He was just when
Speaker 3: he's having lunch. I'm going to lunch, he's at his lunch.
Speaker 2: His name was Marvin, and Marvin became a fixture in
Speaker 2: her day life, a friendly face that she felt comfortable with.
Speaker 1: And then he invited me to this club that he
Speaker 1: belonged to.
Speaker 3: It was like a dance club.
Speaker 1: It was like the Caribbean Cultural Club.
Speaker 2: He was Jamaican and Nancy's dad was from Cuba, so
Speaker 2: she was interested in Boston's Caribbean community.
Speaker 3: And I was like, guy and my friends have come
Speaker 3: part of this weekend. It's all right.
Speaker 2: That weekend, as promised, she and her friends stop by.
Speaker 2: It was a lively scene with music and dancing.
Speaker 1: So when I went into the club, I was expecting
Speaker 1: to see Marvin. I'm going to let him know that
Speaker 1: I did come for his invitation. And I never saw
Speaker 1: him that night at all.
Speaker 2: But she hardly noticed because she got distracted by a
Speaker 2: guy her age named Seth, and.
Speaker 1: He asked me to dance. I've danced to me, it's
Speaker 1: just the dance. I went to sit back down with
Speaker 1: my friends that continue were hanging out, and he asked
Speaker 1: me to dance again.
Speaker 3: Dance again.
Speaker 2: Seth wasn't exactly her type.
Speaker 1: Well then four eleven it is, because everybody's gonna be
Speaker 1: solid it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's six ' three.
Speaker 2: Nancy and her friends decided to leave the party before
Speaker 2: it got too.
Speaker 1: Late by that time, and the night was ending and
Speaker 1: he comes running out the club.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, Seth, what did Nancy's number?
Speaker 1: It was the nineties, so he had to go to
Speaker 1: his car to get pen and paper.
Speaker 2: Nancy found it endearing. She thought she was meeting up
Speaker 2: with a friend from work and instead ended up meeting
Speaker 2: this nice guy. It felt like fate. The next day,
Speaker 2: Seth called.
Speaker 1: I'll not forget. It was a Sunday.
Speaker 3: It was two o'clock in the afternoon and he called.
Speaker 1: He said he was working.
Speaker 3: He was a butcher. Oh, I want to come seeing
Speaker 3: you after I got work?
Speaker 1: All right, where you live?
Speaker 3: I said, I live on?
Speaker 1: Really? I work on Wow.
Speaker 2: He worked just a few blocks down from her apartment,
Speaker 2: So they agreed to meet up for lunch. Seth recently
Speaker 2: moved to Boston from Jamaica, so you.
Speaker 1: Told me about, you know, living in Jamaica, and that
Speaker 1: he was here on a visa.
Speaker 2: She loved his Jamaican accent, especially the way he said
Speaker 2: her name. She also liked his easygoing personality, so she
Speaker 2: said yes to a second date. That's where he really
Speaker 2: impressed her.
Speaker 1: He cooked for me. He actually cooked it at his
Speaker 1: house and brought it to my house. That was like,
Speaker 1: so it's Jamaican wood. It was a red snapper. Delicious,
Speaker 1: absolutely delicious. He's an excellent cook.
Speaker 2: She hadn't had a serious boyfriend since DeVaughn in high school,
Speaker 2: and Seth reminded her a bit of him. He went
Speaker 2: out of his way to make her feel special, just
Speaker 2: like DeVaughn had.
Speaker 3: I always tell people you sweetly off my feet.
Speaker 1: I'll say.
Speaker 3: The biggest attraction was.
Speaker 1: He was pleasant and calm and respectful. She cheeked me
Speaker 1: like a lady. It was good to me, and everything
Speaker 1: just seemed like it clicked.
Speaker 2: After they'd been dating for a few months, Seth took
Speaker 2: Nancy to meet his uncle. He was one of a
Speaker 2: few people in Seth's family who also immigrated to Boston.
Speaker 2: When Nancy walked through the door, she was shocked.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I know you.
Speaker 2: It was Marvin, Nancy's lunch break buddy.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you do the construction that Liberty
Speaker 1: needs to him right. He's like, yeah, yeah, I see
Speaker 1: you when you're going to lunch that. Yeah, Well, I said, wow,
Speaker 1: what a small world.
Speaker 2: Years later, Nancy would find out it wasn't much of
Speaker 2: a coincidence at all. That summer, she and Seth took
Speaker 2: their first vacation together.
Speaker 1: We went to New Hampshire, ham to Beach. I went
Speaker 1: every year with friends or whatever, and I stated, they
Speaker 1: view hotel every year right across from the beach, and I.
Speaker 3: Know that's where I could see my child. I know
Speaker 3: that for a fact.
Speaker 2: Nancy had lived her whole life believing she'd never have kids.
Speaker 2: She told Seth she couldn't get pregnant. When she found
Speaker 2: out that she was expecting, it felt like another medical miracle.
Speaker 2: Her first call was to her mom.
Speaker 3: She was like, yeah, you'll have to get married now.
Speaker 1: I said, right now, right now.
Speaker 2: It seemed old fashioned, but she trusted her mom to
Speaker 2: guide her in the right direction.
Speaker 1: We went to city Hall to register for the marriage certificate.
Speaker 1: I'm four months pregnant and the lady gives you the paper.
Speaker 1: It's split in the middle and your information is here
Speaker 1: and his information is here.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, they have your birthdate wrong.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, that's right. I said, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: He's like, it is, Well, you can't be twenty six
Speaker 1: with this day of birth. He was nineteen.
Speaker 2: He lied about his age. He was in twenty six,
Speaker 2: like he said he was nineteen. Nancy was twenty three
Speaker 2: at the time. Seth gave her a simple explanation.
Speaker 1: He had to make up that age for me to
Speaker 1: be interested because he told me he was nineteen.
Speaker 3: I was definitely not dated him, he said, I.
Speaker 1: Said, you're right, so he.
Speaker 3: Lied to be able to date me.
Speaker 1: I just stood there for a minute. The place that
Speaker 1: you get the marriage certific k was at the bottom
Speaker 1: floor in the building where there is an echo because
Speaker 1: there is a big square of balconies, and I screamed
Speaker 1: out what and it echoes all of the place. All
Speaker 1: you saw was people coming over and looking down.
Speaker 2: Seth insisted that it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 1: He didn't comprehend that it was wrong, like telling a
Speaker 1: child that it's wrong to play in the dirt. And
Speaker 1: they looked at you, like why not like that? You know,
Speaker 1: like what's the problem.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, what what do I do?
Speaker 1: At this point, I got an imagine to get in
Speaker 1: one hand and a baby in the belly.
Speaker 2: She decided she was gonna let it go. She couldn't
Speaker 2: change his age, so she signed the papers.
Speaker 1: I think I was more in love with my baby
Speaker 1: than any situation. I wanted her to have a married
Speaker 1: mom and dad, and I want to everything for her,
Speaker 1: So that was in my head.
Speaker 2: A few weeks later, Nancy and Seth had a small wedding.
Speaker 2: The couple set their sights on parenthood. They got an
Speaker 2: adorable apartment on the top floor of a converted Boston mansion,
Speaker 2: complete with a castle like turret.
Speaker 1: It was like a cute, little quaint hogmoon beginning of
Speaker 1: life apart.
Speaker 2: Nancy wanted the sex of the baby to be a surprise.
Speaker 1: When she came out, there was a girl. He actually
Speaker 1: had a frown on his face. I said, I don't
Speaker 1: care if it was a frog. All that I went throre,
Speaker 1: you better be happy.
Speaker 2: Set's disappointment quickly faded. They both fell in love with
Speaker 2: their daughter.
Speaker 1: I was just in the awe of her every day.
Speaker 1: She was a wonderful, wonderful little girl.
Speaker 2: Those first few years of their daughter's life were magical.
Speaker 3: He was a sor father. He always took care of.
Speaker 1: My daughter, always like he died for her, not to pampers,
Speaker 1: diapered like washing material diapers. He made her baby food.
Speaker 1: He's the one I got up in a milan ni
Speaker 1: I didn't change poopy diapers because he did that all
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: He was also excellent to Nancy.
Speaker 3: He did all the cooking, he did all the cleaning.
Speaker 3: I could tell him until time. Coming home from work,
Speaker 3: he'd have a.
Speaker 1: Bath ready for me.
Speaker 3: He'd have a buss wine for me. He always cooked dinner.
Speaker 2: And this wasn't a phase for him. Year after year,
Speaker 2: Seth showed up for their family and their marriage. She
Speaker 2: and Seth were a team.
Speaker 1: We worked together in the house without effort, not like Okay,
Speaker 1: you're going to do this and I'm gonna We just
Speaker 1: did it like you and my mother used to say,
Speaker 1: you can'ts just do things effortlessly.
Speaker 2: Years into their marriage, they were still very much in love.
Speaker 1: The romance was still there. As as I'm concerned, that
Speaker 1: didn't change at all.
Speaker 2: Even a neighbor commented on how physically close they seemed.
Speaker 1: She was like, every time I see you guys, just
Speaker 1: so close. She was like, he's mowing the lawn and
Speaker 1: you're right next to him. I'm like picking weeds. But
Speaker 1: we were. We were always close together like that. Always.
Speaker 2: At the time, Nancy worked at a bank.
Speaker 1: I had a computer to take home just in case
Speaker 1: it was implement weather.
Speaker 2: Nancy was the only one in their house who used
Speaker 2: the computer.
Speaker 1: And I had told them this is just my work
Speaker 1: computer only I can go on all right. Everybody knew
Speaker 1: that I was good. One day I went on the
Speaker 1: computer and a dating website popped up. It was called
Speaker 1: adultfinder dot com. I'll never forget it now. The username
Speaker 1: was there, but the password was there.
Speaker 2: The username was Peter Parker. Five years into their marriage,
Speaker 2: Nancy found a strange dating website on her work computer
Speaker 2: with a username she didn't recognize.
Speaker 1: I'm like Peter Pocca. So I'm like, somebody got my
Speaker 1: computer and put their name on them. I'm thinking Peter
Speaker 1: Parker's a person, and I'm like, Seth, what is did
Speaker 1: you see that? He was like, oh, those things like
Speaker 1: pop ups? And I'm like, oh my god. Let me
Speaker 1: call my company and let them know. I did not
Speaker 1: go on that website, and they took it out of
Speaker 1: space value. They didn't dig into it or nothing like that.
Speaker 2: Nancy didn't either, Besides, her focus was on their daughter,
Speaker 2: who just started school.
Speaker 1: I went to every at the school program and every play,
Speaker 1: and I was always by myself because he was working.
Speaker 2: He'd taken a demanding job at the Metro rail. He
Speaker 2: often worked overtime hours to make extra money. They were
Speaker 2: only in their thirties, but they were already planning for
Speaker 2: an early retirement.
Speaker 1: And we always talked about retiring in Jamaica. Have a
Speaker 1: house there up in the hills. We finally had a house.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful up there. The air and everything is different.
Speaker 1: We had a book and everything that we wrote in
Speaker 1: What we Want, What We're going to.
Speaker 2: Do, a book where they wrote down their dreams for
Speaker 2: the future. In order to make those dreams happen. Nancy
Speaker 2: and Seth worked long hours. The only day they both
Speaker 2: had off was Sunday. That day was reserved for family.
Speaker 1: When she got older, like ten, we would go to
Speaker 1: the mall. I would go one way and they would
Speaker 1: go another because they'd go into the video game store
Speaker 1: and I'm in Macy's or jaz or something and we
Speaker 1: had wacky talkies. We had lacky talkies. It was cute.
Speaker 1: They had a lot of fun with her.
Speaker 2: One Sunday, Nancy was looking forward to their family time,
Speaker 2: but Seth took an overtime shift.
Speaker 1: Well called him at work for something. I can't remember
Speaker 1: what it was, and he said he's not here. I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 1: did he go to the bathroom? You know, No, he's
Speaker 1: not today's say, oh, but he's not doing overtime today. No.
Speaker 1: So when he got home at midnight, when he normally
Speaker 1: gets home, he comes in the door. I didn't mention
Speaker 1: to him that I knew he wasn't at work. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: ya home a little bit later then, No, I was like,
Speaker 1: I know they at traffic at the summon. You okay?
Speaker 2: He said he stayed late to talk to a coworker
Speaker 2: who was having a releaseationship problem.
Speaker 1: He was like, we would talking a long time because
Speaker 1: he was telling me that he cheated on his girlfriend
Speaker 1: and she found out, and that's why we was talking.
Speaker 1: He needed somebody to talk to. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: a woman always finds out when you're doing A dog
Speaker 1: comes to Mike, don't forget.
Speaker 2: She knew she'd caught Seth in a lie. He hadn't
Speaker 2: been at work that day at all, and he certainly
Speaker 2: hadn't been comforting a coworker, So where was he? Instead
Speaker 2: of asking him directly, she decided to wait and see
Speaker 2: what else you can find out. Plus, she wasn't ready
Speaker 2: to accuse him of anything.
Speaker 1: Once you put it out there that you don't trust them,
Speaker 1: your full relationship changes. You can't really ruin even like
Speaker 1: a friendship. Say you and I, if we're friends. In
Speaker 1: my pocketbook is missing. I put it in the wrong place.
Speaker 1: But now I'm like, did you take my pocketbook? Our
Speaker 1: friendship is over. It's over. You just have to be
Speaker 1: careful with stuff like that, you know. So I was
Speaker 1: kind of stuck until I could get something tangible.
Speaker 2: And soon she would get something tangible or maybe metaphysical.
Speaker 2: Nancy was in bed late one night and out of
Speaker 2: their bedroom window, she could see Seth standing outside their house.
Speaker 1: And I saw a figure next to him. And I
Speaker 1: was half asleep and halfway can I stop back to see?
Speaker 1: And I talked to him the next day and I said,
Speaker 1: were you okay last night? Did anything different happen? He goes,
Speaker 1: she had almost got into a car accident. We were
Speaker 1: the only two cars in a road. I almost got
Speaker 1: a car accident. And I was like, I thigured something
Speaker 1: was wrong. He said why? And I told him the
Speaker 1: story how I saw the figure. I said, that was
Speaker 1: a guardian angel. That safe.
Speaker 2: After that, Seth was spooked. He knew she'd seen something,
Speaker 2: and Nancy knew that the figure next to him was
Speaker 2: no guardian angel.
Speaker 1: After that, you can tell he was so nervous to
Speaker 1: do anything.
Speaker 2: She wasn't about to start spying on him, so she waited,
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Checking your pockets and your cell phone records and finding
Speaker 1: a way going and following you leave. I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm not checking o man like that. I'm got time
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 2: But she kept setting traps in their conversations just to
Speaker 2: see how he would react.
Speaker 1: And I told him I kept having a reoccurring dream
Speaker 1: of him being with somebody else.
Speaker 2: Christmas was coming up, and that year Seth went all out.
Speaker 1: Every year we always said we would buy each other
Speaker 1: just one gift and we'd e splourge everything else on
Speaker 1: our daughter. And we did that for the longest time. Well,
Speaker 1: this Christmas I got it was an iPod at the time,
Speaker 1: does anyone and he got it engraved him back with
Speaker 1: a whole paragraph I love you, I love you today
Speaker 1: I die. I'm like, oh wow, I got the Nikes
Speaker 1: with the predominan that was inside the shoe. I mean,
Speaker 1: he gave me so many and it was expensive gifts,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, why'd you bind me so much. He's like,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to I'm like okay.
Speaker 2: As Christmas Day went on, she noticed that Seth was
Speaker 2: acting strange.
Speaker 1: He was so quiet, like he's a quiet person anyway,
Speaker 1: but I mean nothing. After we did the gifts with
Speaker 1: one in my mother's house in Boston, not a word
Speaker 1: driving there, not a word during dinner, not a word
Speaker 1: coming back home. And I was like, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Are you are? You're sick? What's wrong? He's like nothing.
Speaker 1: I was like, something's wrong, what's the matter? Nothing? Okay.
Speaker 1: We went to bed to a point I got if.
Speaker 1: I said I can't take it anymore. Something is wrong.
Speaker 1: What is wrong with you? He jumps out of the
Speaker 1: bed and he gets on his knees like he's going
Speaker 1: to pray, and closes his eyes and said, I got
Speaker 1: another woman pregnant.
Speaker 2: There it was the confession she'd been waiting for, but
Speaker 2: it was much bigger than she could have imagined. The
Speaker 2: revelation was so overwhelming she passed out.
Speaker 1: It was like somebody like boom right in my chest.
Speaker 1: I finally came to and I just said, well, I
Speaker 1: guess you just have to go. He said, just like that.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, just like that, because you're not even
Speaker 1: gonna try to fight for me. I said, how can
Speaker 1: I fight for something I already lost? I said, you
Speaker 1: can come get your stuff later. For now, you have
Speaker 1: to go, like right now, because if you don't, I
Speaker 1: really don't think you're worth going to jail for. So
Speaker 1: I really think you should leave.
Speaker 2: Right after he left, Nancy called her mom. It was
Speaker 2: three am, but of course her mom still picked up, and.
Speaker 1: She's like, I can't. I really can't believe this because
Speaker 1: you would have never known that. And she loved him
Speaker 1: to death. She said she deserves an oscar. He really
Speaker 1: deserves an oscar.
Speaker 2: The next morning, Seth was at their front door. He
Speaker 2: needed to pack a bag.
Speaker 1: And that's when I asked, how long have you been
Speaker 1: seeing her? He admitted to four years. He goes, I
Speaker 1: know you knew. I was like, how when you told
Speaker 1: me about that Guardian angel? I knew you knew.
Speaker 2: Then Nancy figured that the dating website she'd seen years
Speaker 2: earlier was connected to this affair, and.
Speaker 1: I said, and who the hell is Peter Walker? He said,
Speaker 1: it's nine of me, and like I was supposed to know?
Speaker 1: I was like, what he said, that's its real name.
Speaker 1: I said, so, what does that have to do with you?
Speaker 1: Because you're not on the inside of man. He said,
Speaker 1: that's my favorite Charita okay Si.
Speaker 2: Seth had been weaving a web of lies for their
Speaker 2: entire marriage, and Nancy was just starting to unravel it.
Speaker 2: She told him to expect divorce papers on Monday.
Speaker 1: You said, you're divorcing me. I said, dude, you're not
Speaker 1: getting it. I told you got to go. Would you
Speaker 1: think I just wanted to go, spend a night somewhere
Speaker 1: and just come back home. No.
Speaker 2: Done with that conversation, their marriage was over. They'd been
Speaker 2: together for fifteen years. Nancy thought she'd heard the worst
Speaker 2: of it, but she'd soon realize his deception was far
Speaker 2: bigger than an affair.
Speaker 1: Ki, you eventually told me the whole story, and I said,
Speaker 1: why me? He said, as my uncle was saying, why
Speaker 1: not you.
Speaker 2: Nancy's fifteen year marriage was blown apart when her husband
Speaker 2: confessed to getting another woman pregnant. But that wasn't the
Speaker 2: whole story. The real story started before Seth and Nancy
Speaker 2: even met. Here's what Seth confessed.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, I came to America with a visa.
Speaker 1: I was only supposed to stay for six months. I
Speaker 1: started a job and I decided I wanted to stay.
Speaker 1: And he said, Marvin told him that you have to
Speaker 1: get your green card, and to get that he would
Speaker 1: have to get married. And I said, oh okay, he goes,
Speaker 1: well it was you. I said, it was me, like
Speaker 1: I was chosen. He said yeah, So our relationship was
Speaker 1: set up from the beginning, and I had no idea.
Speaker 2: The night Nancy first met Seth at the Caribbean Club,
Speaker 2: that wasn't fate. It was orchestrated. She'd been singled out
Speaker 2: by Seth's uncle, Marvin, you know, the guy from work,
Speaker 2: and he invited Nancy there for a purpose.
Speaker 1: His uncle had his eye on me and invited me
Speaker 1: to the club. When I came to Buddy made sure
Speaker 1: his nephew was there, made sure his nephew danced me.
Speaker 2: She felt lucky meeting Seth at the club, But it
Speaker 2: turns out it was all planned for one goal.
Speaker 1: He told me his uncle was like, she looks like
Speaker 1: she has money. He's the one I put us together
Speaker 1: with this crappy green cot.
Speaker 2: When Nancy got pregnant, she knew Seth was still on
Speaker 2: his visa.
Speaker 1: Because I have to go back, and I'm like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I need to have the baby. So I said we
Speaker 1: can't get married thing because I didn't know it goes yeah,
Speaker 1: we can, but that changes everything. I just have to
Speaker 1: go and make it right at the immigration office with
Speaker 1: the certificate called a green.
Speaker 2: Car, she was having a baby. I was scared to
Speaker 2: lose set so back then, Nancy had jumped into action
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, okay, so what do we need to do.
Speaker 1: He was like, well, it's easier and faster if we
Speaker 1: have a lawyer, and I said okay. So I spent
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars of my own money to get the lawyer.
Speaker 2: Nancy saw the green card as another piece of paperwork
Speaker 2: they needed to get married. She had no idea. She
Speaker 2: was part of an elaborate scheme.
Speaker 1: I definitely feel like I was singled out. Fortunately for them,
Speaker 1: it worked out and Seth got his green car. Marvin
Speaker 1: was the mastermind of the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And to add insult to injury, Seth had another reason
Speaker 2: why he chose Nancy, because.
Speaker 1: Well, you told me you couldn't have any children that
Speaker 1: fit into the plan, that I wouldn't have to have
Speaker 1: any connection with you. I said, wow, you guys are evil.
Speaker 1: That is evil.
Speaker 2: This revelation made her feel as if her whole relationship
Speaker 2: was manufactured, that she had been used.
Speaker 1: I was just a pawn in the little game.
Speaker 2: Every day of their marriage, he welcomed her home with
Speaker 2: a glass of wine and a home cooked meal. Nobody
Speaker 2: had ever shown her love like this before. If Nancy
Speaker 2: was just a means to an end, why did Zeth
Speaker 2: father staying with her for fifteen years? Well, Nancy asked
Speaker 2: him that directly.
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, Well, we were married for fifteen years,
Speaker 1: so I don't understand. He said, well, I know, I'm
Speaker 1: going to hell because I had to stay married to
Speaker 1: you a little bit longer because my girlfriend in Jamaica
Speaker 1: wanted to come here, and for me to be able
Speaker 1: to bring her here, I had to show that I
Speaker 1: was economically fit to be able to bring her here.
Speaker 2: Nancy had assumed the affair was from Seth's online dalliances
Speaker 2: as Peter Parker, but it turns out he'd been with
Speaker 2: the other woman for their entire marriage.
Speaker 1: He knew her in Jamaica. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was since they were kids or all their life. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but he brought her here from Jamaica.
Speaker 2: Seth finally confessed his double life to Nancy because he
Speaker 2: was just in too deep. It turns out the pregnancy
Speaker 2: he told Nancy about wasn't the first one. I had
Speaker 2: a whole other family, he.
Speaker 1: Told me that day, because she was pregnant again, so
Speaker 1: there were four. She was pregnant with the fifth. At
Speaker 1: that point, he couldn't take it anymore, like do what
Speaker 1: he was doing financially with me and our daughter. He
Speaker 1: said he had come to a point where it was
Speaker 1: just becoming too much.
Speaker 2: All those years set claimed to be working over time,
Speaker 2: he was actually going over to his other house to
Speaker 2: his other children. It shattered Nancy's reality.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was living the life of the
Speaker 1: Truman Show. And I still feel that way. I don't
Speaker 1: know what was real or not. I feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: cry because I feel so stupid. Everything was fake. Who
Speaker 1: was I living with? Are the walls real? Am I
Speaker 1: going to push them down? And we're in a television program?
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 2: Their daughter was fourteen at the time, and Nancy wanted
Speaker 2: to protect her from the reality of her father's dishonesty.
Speaker 2: She tried to maintain a sense of stability for her
Speaker 2: and her daughter. She moved to a new place while
Speaker 2: they figured out the divorce, divided their assets, and split
Speaker 2: up shared lives.
Speaker 1: I had moved to a smaller townhouse. I was going
Speaker 1: back and forth to the home that we owned together,
Speaker 1: except that I because I had to figure out what
Speaker 1: I was bringing to my new home.
Speaker 2: They were waiting to put the house on the market
Speaker 2: until the divorce was final. In the meantime, clearing out
Speaker 2: the old house was a constant chore.
Speaker 1: And one day I went during the day and I
Speaker 1: went to open the door with my key, but someone
Speaker 1: on the other side of the door opened it for me.
Speaker 1: Someone's in my house. Skid the living cross out of me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, who are you? He's like, who are you?
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is my house.
Speaker 2: Seth Short sold their house without telling Nancy. The person
Speaker 2: who'd opened the door was the new owner.
Speaker 1: I was only on the ded and of the mortgage,
Speaker 1: so I guess I didn't need to be there for
Speaker 1: the sale of the home.
Speaker 2: Since it was a short sale. There wasn't even a
Speaker 2: profit to divide in their divorce, even though she'd paid
Speaker 2: half the mortgage for a decade. It felt like a
Speaker 2: slap in the face. She couldn't move out on her
Speaker 2: own terms. But to make matters worse, some of her
Speaker 2: most prized possessions were still sold with the house and
Speaker 2: she would never see them again.
Speaker 1: My diaries in my ledgers that I been writing in
Speaker 1: since I was twelve thirteen. Up until that point, I
Speaker 1: had like a memory box that I got my daught
Speaker 1: his baby shoes in it. It had hairbows of her something,
Speaker 1: little things that like memory stuff, ornaments that meant some
Speaker 1: you know, babies, first Christmas, things like that. All of
Speaker 1: that was gone, and it was just devastating.
Speaker 2: After they separated, Seth wasted no time stepping into his
Speaker 2: new life. After all, he'd been building it for some time.
Speaker 1: He has this whole other new family to go to,
Speaker 1: as if he didn't have to skip a beat while
Speaker 1: I'm scratching and scrounging to try to move and find
Speaker 1: out where I can live best for me and my daughter,
Speaker 1: and it just didn't seem fair.
Speaker 2: Nancy was left to pick up the pieces. It all
Speaker 2: took an intense toll.
Speaker 1: I don't remember three years of that. After the doors,
Speaker 1: I was like in a bog. I don't know any
Speaker 1: other way to explain it, and I told my mother,
Speaker 1: I lost like two or three years of my life.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even know what happened in between that because
Speaker 1: I was just going.
Speaker 2: Her daughter got her through those difficult ears.
Speaker 1: And she was always my priority. Always. You kind of
Speaker 1: feel ashamed because I started thinking to myself, how stupid
Speaker 1: could I be?
Speaker 2: Nancy is a survivor.
Speaker 1: Even though I was considered ill with the twisted vow
Speaker 1: haunt Murmur. I was born a warrior.
Speaker 2: It took years to recover emotionally and feel like herself again,
Speaker 2: and now, fifteen years post divorce, she's proud of how
Speaker 2: far she's come.
Speaker 1: And after time went on, I can talk about this
Speaker 1: without crying, without being upset like he doesn't deserve my teams.
Speaker 1: That's not my fault. I did survive, and I feel
Speaker 1: stronger now than I did before. The resilience in me.
Speaker 1: Nobody can take that from me.
Speaker 2: We end all of our episodes with the same question,
Speaker 2: why do you want to tell your story?
Speaker 1: It is my story and I want to tell it.
Speaker 1: Maybe somebody's in it right now, And then I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about it because this happens too much and it's somebody's life,
Speaker 1: you know, I have a lot to give from that
Speaker 1: party that can turn into a good thing.
Speaker 2: On the next episode of Betrayal. And I said to
Speaker 2: him on those last few days as I was holding
Speaker 2: his hand in the hospital, I was just like, Man,
Speaker 2: you've got to go up there. You've got to talk
Speaker 2: to mom. You've got to find the answers. If you
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