'My Sister Is My Mum'... Callers Tell Us Their Jaw-Dropping Family Secrets

'My Sister Is My Mum'... Callers Tell Us Their Jaw-Dropping Family Secrets

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Jodi has a family secret story to share with us,
something from your childhood. What happened, Jody?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
My twin cousins? And are actually my sister's full own sisters?
Are they full siblings?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
How much older?

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Were they?

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Six years? And what had happened was she was only
sixteen when my mother and father had the twins, So
back then it was pretty taboo, nothing married and everything,
and my grandmother had a very stronghold on the situation.
So my auntie stepped in and adopted them. So that's

(01:07):
my mom's sister.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yes, so it's keeping up appearances. The grandma said, no, no, no, no,
you can't be a sixteen year old mom. Your sister's
going to have to pretend to be their mum.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Basically, yes, oh wow, and its legal to be quite honest.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
So were they raised in a separate house with your
auntie or were they Were you all in the same
house together?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
No? Separate? Oh, my auntie had had a daughter biologically
the same age as my mother, So my mother was sixteen,
her daughter was sixteen, and then all of a sudden
they had twin twins going to their family.

Speaker 6 (01:44):
Yeah, if your father you know, and stayed around and
then you were born. What did he feel about the
fact that his children were being raised by someone else.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
I don't really know how he felt. I don't think
he liked it. But he was also at a eight
he was nineteen, I think where he wasn't ready to
and financially to raise the twins.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
And so how's your relationship with your your sisters?

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Now?

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Oh? Very close. We always were brought up very close.
And I used to always say when we used to
go on outings, I wish you were my sisters, And
little did I know they actually were.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
So where did it all come out?

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Would you believe? When my grandmother passed away, my mother
sat me down and I'm an adult, and she said,
I've got a secret to tell you, but you can't
tell anyone. And she told me there and then after
my grandmother passed away, I think she just had that
strong the family. Did she tell the other kids? I

(02:50):
just went, how am I going to keep this is
a secret? This is crazy. So a few years later,
one of the sisters came up to me. We're at
a family gathering. She came up to me and said, hi, sister,
and I went, what was going on? And then she
said I just found out and I went, oh, people,
that was there a shift?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Was there a shift in your relationship because obviously that
some cousins are very very close anyway, But did you
feel different once it was all out that they were
your sisters?

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Not really, I didn't, but I think it was a
little bit different with my mum. Oh, I bet, yeah,
you know, she she had at seventeen. She had a
nervous breakdown. She didn't want to do it like she obviously,
you know, saw them every day and with another family
with her sister, so it's so hard. That was hard. Yeah,

(03:40):
she said, yeah, it was very tough. But I think
that sort of shifted a little bit because oh, wow,
you're not my auntie, you're my mum. That is a
doozy crazy so nice, no worry, thank you.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Have you got one of your own? Thirteen one oh
sixty five is our number family secrets.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
I do wonder how many secrets then get revealed when
someone dies, Like there's a matriarch or a patriarch. That's
kind of dictated the terms yes, and when that goes,
it feels like, okay, maybe we can actually be honest now.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, that's yeah.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
It's weird that that makes people want to do that
I don't. But also the mom, like the mom knowing
that her children were being raised by her sister and
still didn't, like, didn't stand up to her mother, going no,
you actually made a mistake.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
This is awful.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, thirt six fives out number. If you've got a
family secret you want to share with us, let's go.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
Julie of North Lakes, Hi, Hello, what is your secret?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, when I was sixteen, my mom my grandma, I
thought it was my mom told me that my sister
was actually my mother.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh wow, okay, so your grandma was raising you both
as daughters, but you were actually so how much how
much older was your sister?

Speaker 7 (05:05):
Sixteen?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Wow? Wow?

Speaker 6 (05:09):
What did that do to your relationships?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, it really destroyed it for a long time because
we were so close, and I couldn't understand why I
didn't kill me in so many like teen years and
years and years, like I'd just been weekend at her house.
I couldn't understand it. You know, we were so close
and we had a big family. I was one of us.
I was second to youngest of nine children, so I

(05:33):
it was totally bloody younger sister who actually was my auntie.
So it's yeah, destroyed. It destroyed that relationship for a
long time, and she kept it a secret. So my
mother had children of her own, had more children, and
they were my nieces by a daughters, and she wouldn't

(05:54):
let them know all that either. So they were I
think nineteen and seventeen when I told them myself that
they are actually my God. Wow, yeah, it really effect
it really affected the family for a long time. So
you know my parents, why was my mom and dad?
I never called my sister my mother, you know mum

(06:15):
like that. But yeah, they just keep on the secrets.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
How do you feel about it now?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I just think they should have told me from the start,
and I was. They still have brought me up, but
I was known, and and I guess it's had doesn't
suspect my whole life that I just don't even like me,
like you like me if you did me, So yeah,
I just don't like live.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
And yeah, because you can see why as a young
child they would have might have kept the secret, but
then as it got and further, then the longer it goes,
the longer, the bigger the lie gets, doesn't it correct?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
And he continues on and on and on to generate
it's not great.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
And is there what your relationship like with your mom
now or your system?

Speaker 2 (07:02):
I don't I don't need to do with it. I
still I still talk to my well, my sisters. Yeah,
I don't do with my My mum has been lots
of cases being close and she didn't have my daughters.
But it's just it's yeah, too much, it's hard yet.

Speaker 6 (07:27):
Too much water under the bridge. Thanks for telling us, Julie. Wow,
what a story.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Oh look, I know we've got to get to news,
but I just want to get to Chelsea quickly because
she's got a funny family secret, Chelsea out of Red
Bank Planes. What's the secret?

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Chelsea?

Speaker 7 (07:48):
So growing up, I basically was terrified of the pool
cleaners or the creepy crawlies in the pool. Yes, obviously
my family growing up obviously thought I grew out of it. No,
I'm still absolutely terrified.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
When you see one. What happens.

Speaker 7 (08:11):
Well, if I'm in the pool like and it gets closed,
I just sort of duo into the corner and I'm
just like, yeah, I'm not scared.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm fine. It's such a great party, don't you just
throw it.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
You feel better for getting out of Chelsea.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
I do definitely better.