Andrea Dunlop

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.

Yeah.

And I think it seemed very clear to me why it would be important for you after all of that, after the act and all of that kind of thing, to tell your story in your own words and really rest some control over the narrative.

I wanted to just kind of pivot back and ask a couple of questions about your mom and maybe some of the misperceptions that I think will really probably resonate with a lot of fellow survivors.

So you've said in interviews that it's important to you that people don't see or characterize your mother as a monster.

And that's something that really resonates with me.

So how should we see people like your mom?

What's a better framing?

I mean, it's extremely complex.