Donielle | Featured on ABC's Betrayal: Secrets and Lies
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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Hi, it's Andrea, and we are re-releasing some of our past weekly episodes, and there's a good reason why. For the last year, I have been working with ABC on turning some of your favorite episodes of Betrayal Weekly into a TV show. The show is called Betrayal Secrets and Lies, and it airs every Sunday at 10 p.m. on ABC. This week, we are re-releasing Danielle's story. You may have heard Danielle's story before, or you may be new to her story. A little bit about Danielle. I absolutely adore her. People always ask me when I tell them what I do, how do these people not know? And I'm always protective of my storytellers when I hear that. Danielle's story is such a clear example of what we call betrayal blindness.
You don't assume the worst about the person you love. You assume they're going to work every day. You assume your life is what it appears to be. You don't assume they have a dungeon. And while all of that was happening, Danielle was raising six kids, homeschooling them, running a household, showing up every single day trying to be the best mom and partner she could be. When I was catching up with her recently, her new husband kept popping in and checking in on her as she was talking to me. Just these small tender moments, making sure she was okay, it struck me how different that kind of love feels. It was steady, it was present, it was safe. And that's what makes her story so powerful, because it's not about what she missed.
It's about how much she was holding, how much she was giving, and how deeply she trusted. Danielle, if you're listening, I hope you loved New York City. If you have not heard this story, I won't give any more away. Hearing Danielle's story is fascinating, but seeing it unfold is a whole new experience. So please check out Betrayal, Secrets and Lies on ABC and Hulu to see Danielle and see where the story took place. Enjoy the episode.
One of my children saw his dad dressed all in black. And he said that it seemed like his dad was mad at him because he yelled at him to go back to bed. And the night before that, he had actually told my oldest child to wrap a sledgehammer that we had that had a really bright yellow handle in black electric tape and find a black raincoat for him to wear.
And she was like, okay, dad.
I'm Andrea Gunning, and this is Betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most and the deceptions that change everything. One night in 2017, Danielle Oliver Chauvet was awoken by the FBI and state police. They were pointing guns at her, demanding to know where her husband was. That night, she learned the man she had spent 20 years with was hiding some very big secrets. This is Danielle's first time telling her story. She's been reluctant to share what she went through because, as you'll hear in part two, her husband has other victims. She wants to be respectful of their experience and suffering. But this episode isn't about her husband's crimes. It's about the 20-year marriage Danielle built with him, the ways he deceived and violated her, and the shocking betrayal that ended it all.
It's also the story of being totally in the dark about your partner's double life.
I used to watch Lifetime shows and I used to be that person saying, oh, she had to know something. So I totally understand why people say things like that. But until you are actually walking in those shoes and living with a person who can be completely double-faced, living a completely separate life All I know is the life that he had with me and our kids. That's all I saw. He was able to do everything else completely separate.
Danielle grew up in a happy, tight-knit family in California.
Family is very important to me. We were just over at my parents, all of my siblings, and we all just get along really well. There's hardly ever any arguments within our family. And when there is, it's resolved within the day.
Growing up, Danielle's parents were her role models. They had a respectful and happy marriage. It was an environment that nurtured her easygoing and trusting nature.
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