Andrea Dunlop

And missed the mark, for sure.

Absolutely missed the mark.

And then I also, you know, when I found out that you were not involved, not compensated, that's not, like, just to say to all of my true crime fellow creators, and, you know, we make decisions about, you know, there have been instances where we have, like,

told details about someone's story and they weren't involved.

That is one of the most difficult ethical dilemmas we have on the show.

And the only reasons we've gone forward with it was because we felt like it was important to protect the children in that situation and otherwise I wouldn't do it.

And there was no such argument for the act, right?

That was just taking the most sensational sort of version of that story, dramatizing it for entertainment purposes and-

money right and and none of which went back to you to any survivors like there might have been a net benefit again just like from awareness about munchausen by proxy existing but like there was no intentionality from the creators of the act to do anything more with it than tell us tell us i will say that um i want to say maybe it was two years later after the act was created um

Yeah, I think we can recognize that as an individually ethical choice to right a wrong that probably wasn't entirely his call, but it sounds like that to me speaks to a recognition of why that production was not ethical to begin with.

Right.

Yeah.

And then so you've, you know, you've had some some projects sort of starting, you know, filming when you were sort of towards the end of your prison sentence and then with this Lifetime series that kind of followed you.

So, yeah, I mean, what's what's your experience of that been like and why did you decide that this was the sort of your the next move was was reality television for you?

Yeah.

And, you know, watching that, I'm so glad to hear that you had a good experience with the producers and the production, because I think that makes, you know, that makes all the difference.

Right.

And like and people's intentions and how they want to present the story.

You know, you have I think being on the production side, you recognize that you have a lot of power over how that person's story is presented.

So I'm glad you felt like they they use that well and that it served you well.