[YouMeBPD]

They totally took our episode and Tracy's comments out of context as well. Left out many of the real facts. I wrote a blog post about it and they called me to tell me that I have to take my blog down. Sorry not going to do that, I have an email from their company saying it was confidential until the episode airs.

Here is my post: An Open Letter to True Entertainment and @OWN About Our #Unfaithful Shoot http://j.mp/13WlQZc

I totally understand the condensing for time, our was a 4 - 5 month thing, but taking comments totally out of context is wrong.

I don't know about down under, but I was told that it will eventually air in the UK. I read that the previews at OWN aren't working for down under--someone asked (maybe one of you guys) in the comments section. UGH.

But for those who can see the previews, they put up a much longer one that highlights the creative editing.
http://www.oprah.com/own-unfaithful/Chuck-and-Kenda-Ruth-Mistress-Ultimatum-Video
And boy was it creative. It doesn't just imply things, it flat out says things--I needed emergency surgery after an auto accident. Um, surgery was not emergency, it was after breaking my foot falling down the stairs and Chuck was living at home at the time, and the surgery was 4 weeks after the fall. It didn't even mention the real car accident that I was in that totaled our truck, but mentioned a near-miss and implied I needed surgery from it! Though the timing of the near miss was accurate, it was then that I let Chuck come home--and that was when he was home for a year and took the affair underground and it was a few days after that near-miss we called the cops on her.

But the FAKE (it was fake people!, okay sorry for the rant ) pregnancy was a year-and-a-half before that and I did not kick him out until two-and-a-half years after the fake pregnancy. But they made it sound like the fake came after the near-miss and cop calling and that I kicked him out because of it. No one watching that could estimate the timeline. And then they said we went to counseling for 2 years. That would be a good idea, but we did not go for even a full year. And he lived in an apartment at the beginning, not the end. And his affair did not go physical until he had been in his apartment for a month and until about 10 weeks after Bomb Drop.

I know they couldn't say the pregnancy was fake as though that were a fact, but I think it would have been better if they had said it was suspected to be fake to highlight what she was like. And absolutely nothing about Standing--about marriage advocacy. I know they want to leave it to the end to reveal if the couple stayed together or not, but they could have still put in some line about my belief system. As for MLC being mentioned, I thought that would have been a lucky break, but had no expectations other than an expectations that it wouldn't be mentioned.

But I'm still pleased with it. And I was especially pleased with that part where Chuck was saying how he was always thinking about me. Just because I knew that inside, it's nice to hear him say it. Though I don't think either of us could have sugar-coated anything. We were each interviewed for hours and hours and the interviewer was specific about the questions--asking us to describe how or what we felt and then often we repeated answers in different ways.

Then at the end they have you say a series of phrases that they can use to edit in. Things like
a month later
and then
the next day
I'd never felt such pain in my life
it hurt more than anything I had ever felt
That's how they were able to say that the pregnancy was a month later.

[OldPilot]

They totally took our episode and Tracy's comments out of context as well. Left out many of the real facts. I wrote a blog post about it and they called me to tell me that I have to take my blog down. Sorry not going to do that, I have an email from their company saying it was confidential until the episode airs.

Here is my post: An Open Letter to True Entertainment and @OWN About Our #Unfaithful Shoot http://j.mp/13WlQZc

I totally understand the condensing for time, our was a 4 - 5 month thing, but taking comments totally out of context is wrong.

Sorry they did that, are you unhappy that you did the whole episode now?
I think RCR is still happy that it aired and the publicity that it got.

My mother and daughter both are bipolar, and my niece is borderline so I know a thing or two about all of those things.
Thanks for posting the links and I will look around on your blog.

[YouMeBPD]

The fact that they left out the meaningful information regarding why it happened, the negligence and malpractice (not even any mention of over medication, which was a huge part of the interview) was bad enough. But the fact that they took Tracy's comments about her with me and spun it into her with him was the real damaging part that makes me wish we did not do the episode. If you have someone with Borderline then you are familiar with the fact that t feeds off of shame a guilt, by the producers twisting that resulted in a huge amount of shame, which is horribly damaging for someone with her condition.

Had they not twisted the words I would have been disappointed, but still ok for the most part with the episode.