Mike Boudet

Then you add the alcohol and possibly drugs and poof, you get a certain scale episode.

Lucky you.

Decades later in a cramped Cleveland apartment, a young Michael was beaten, locked in closets, humiliated.

and allegedly forced to eat feces by the very person who was supposed to protect him, his mother, Diane Madison, a woman the public celebrated after her death.

Later, he was allegedly sexually abused by one of her boyfriends.

Michael felt emotionally discarded and shoved through the cracks of a system that barely noticed he was falling.

Then came Tania Plummer, the mother of his child who, according to Michael, belittled him and called him less than a man.

A man's manhood, he said, should never be compromised by a female who's never been a man.

That quote may sound absurd on the surface, but beneath it lies a cold bit of truth.

One that points to a deeper identity crisis, especially among men raised in trauma by women

who are in trauma themselves.

It's a warped belief born in pain and shaped by powerlessness.

It's an endless loop I don't know how the fuck we get out of.

Do you have any ideas?

And then came Jalen, Diane's grandson.

The quiet boy who watched all of this unfold.

Who once lived under the same roof as Michael.

In 2019, Jalen, just 18 years old, would creep into Diane Madison's home and stab her to death in her own bed.

He didn't just kill her, he nearly decapitated her.

He pleaded guilty in 2021 and is serving a life sentence with eligibility for parole in 30 years.