Madelaine Petsch

And I'm like, hmm, well, you did.

And then it's almost like there's a lot of like, because we for a long time didn't talk about it as a family, like any of that stuff.

Sorry, did you and your brother talk about it at the time?

No one was home but my dad and I. My parents, my mom and my brother were in South Africa visiting family.

So I was alone with my dad for two weeks.

And so I called my mom and told her in the moment, but it's like, you don't have any witnesses.

Right, proof.

No evidence.

So it's like if the adult is saying, I would never say that.

Obviously my mom deep down knows he probably did because she knows him.

Right, but you were gaslit.

I was gaslit at a young age.

I got comfortable with gaslighting at a young age.

It's a really interesting way of putting it.

So it was kind of a constant issue.

We would never speak about it because, okay, he's good now.

So let's just not even rock the boat.

And then as an adult, I was like, hey, if you guys want a relationship with me, we're all sitting down and we're talking about it.

And I'm looking my father in the eye and saying all the things that really upset me and have traumatized me as an adult.

And you need to sit there and say you did do those things.