Family Secrets: Season 5 Trailer

Join us for more incredible stories about what happens when long-held family secrets come to light. The new season of Family Secrets launches Thursday, April 1. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
I knew as a boy that my father had fought
in World War Two, just as so many fathers of
so many of my playmate friends had fought in World
War Two. And I knew all along that he had
been on the other side, and very quickly knew that
you've been on the wrong side. Every family has its secrets.
They had a compact that they were not going to

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confront the truth of their situation, and then I came
along and threw it down on the floor like a gauntlet.
Secrets that are kept for all kinds of reasons, because
there are sources of shame, because we don't want to
cause others pain, because of unspoken agreements that it's just
better this way. That drive back home was when I

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had to make a choice. If I called my parents
and tell them what happened, I would have to say
goodbye to my grand school, to my life as a
working woman in Mexico, to all of these things. I
would have to say goodbye. But the ripple effects of
holding onto those secrets can last for years, sometimes generations

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to come. My family didn't deny that it happened. They
just denied that it should hurt that it happened. They
just denied that it should have any effect, or it
was very much. If this bothers you, that is your problem,
your fault. When the truth finally does come out, even
if we're older, wiser, even if we think we've moved on,

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it can send us reeling. Both my mother and my
aunt were there that day, and I had said, I
had just saw Tony Costa in the dream with a
gun to my head. What do you know about him?
Why would I be thinking about that? And she said,
I know he became a serial killer, as if I
know he became a pediatrician. I'm Danny Shapiro, host of

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the hit podcast Family's Secrets. Join me for an all
new season of incredible stories that show what happens when
long held secrets come to light and how even the
most painful discoveries have the power to liberate, heal, and
even uplift us. Season five of Family Secrets premiers Thursday,

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April one. Listen and subscribe on the I Heart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.