Em Gessen
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Podcast Appearances
Both Priscilla and Alan accused each other of bad behaviors.
It's a pretty typical complement of transgressions.
Whether either of them was right, or whoever was right first, it's clear that things got bad fast.
But much of what she told me, she has also laid out in legal records, there are a lot, in both U.S.
and Zimbabwean courts, and in testimony related to her custody cases, and eventually, her testimony in Allen's murder-for-hire trial.
In the first year of their marriage, their son was born, whom again I'm calling O, or when needed, I'll beep his name in the tape.
Soon after O was born, Priscilla and Allen broke up, the first time.
Alan was no longer living in Zimbabwe full-time.
He was spending more and more time in Russia.
So their relationship now came in a series of bursts.
Separations, intense reconciliations, awful it's really over, this time fights.
But six months into the pregnancy, she had a miscarriage.