Ellen
Appearances
48 Hours
Scripting a Murder
Thank you for saying that, Elway. With lots and lots of laughs. So everybody knows. I only told Mandy. I only told Mom and Dad. That's everybody.
48 Hours
Scripting a Murder
Hmm, OK. Can we just say it's great? Thank you for saying that, Ellen. With lots and lots of laughs. So everybody knows. I only told Mandy. Well, I only told Mom and Dad. That's everybody.
48 Hours
Scripting a Murder
Thank you for saying that. With lots and lots of laughs. So everybody knows. I only told Mandy. I only told Mom and Dad. That's everybody.
48 Hours
The Footprint
Thank you for saying that out loud. With lots and lots of laughs. So everybody knows? I only told Mandy. I only told Mom and Dad.
48 Hours
The Footprint
Can we just say it's great? Thank you for saying that, Ellen. With lots and lots of laughs. So everybody knows. I only told Mandy. Well, I only told Mom and Dad. That's everybody.
48 Hours
The Footprint
Thank you for saying that, Ellen. With lots and lots of laughs. So everybody knows. I only told Mandy. I only told Mom and Dad. That's everybody.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
I guess I'll start. I was the one who initially called in.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
So my question, my broad question is, how do I kind of let go and stop obsessing over my father-in-law's abuse to my husband and my husband's siblings? And just why I feel the need, like I've taken on this role of like, the person who needs to make him pay or that calls him to the carpet. And I'm obsessing about it. I've basically broken every relationship with his siblings.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
He and I have had issues over it. And I don't know how to get past his bad behavior because I feel like he's never had to be called out for it. He's just got to live his life normally while I've just over the years learned about all these like awful things he's done.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
I, you know, two parent households, um, still very involved. They live next door to us. So, um, Oh God help you, Drew.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
It is in a lot of ways. Yeah. So yeah, I think that's why like learning all of this is even more frustrating. Like I got glimpses of it. He and I met in third grade, so we've known each other forever and ever. And so I've known his family forever and ever. And I knew his parents were like stricter as we were dating in high school, but like
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
it kind of all came to a head a couple of years ago with a text that really just like triggered my husband. And then I started, what was the text hearing? It was silly. We were at a Packer game and his dad is a Dallas fan because he grew up in Mexico and that's what they had for NFL. And he was just, he was just kind of being like nasty. Like, Oh, you have your sons at this game, the Packers.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
stink like it was silly but it just really it it got to drew badly um and then it he just kind of exploded over text and then since then i've just been getting more and more stories of just experiences he's had um and it's just where did your sense of justice and protection come from
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
Or your mom like... He is a lawyer, yeah. He's a defense attorney, yeah.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
I think it's also because I knew him at like 10. So like when he tells me a story about like, yeah, I couldn't sit down in fifth grade because I was, you know, beaten on the back of my leg so bad. I'm like, I was like... sitting next to you and like, didn't know that. Like, I wish I could have, I don't know what 10 year old me would have done, but.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
I know, so I'm not trying to, yeah.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
I was going to say it's harder. There's an extra layer, too, just because of the type of community we live in. Like, we all belong to the same church. Like, we see them on Sundays.
The Dr. John Delony Show
How Do I Tell My Kids He’s Not Their Father?
Yeah, that's the hard part, too, because they wonder, like, why haven't we seen Papa or what's going on? And it's just like, I don't really know. Obviously, I wouldn't drag them into this drama, but the kids haven't seen him besides, like, church or, you know, we all go to the same grocery store or whatever in months.