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Brittani Stapleton DEFENDS Husband After 20 Exploitation Counts – She Knew EVERYTHING · The Robbie Harvey Show

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  You better have the most perfect body.
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  I mean, there better not be an ounce of fat.
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  Brittany Stapleton has become a lightning rod on social media.
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  Why? Because she's 100% adamant that
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  her husband, who sits in prison, is innocent of his crimes.
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  What crimes is that? Joshua Stapleton pleaded guilty
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  to 20 counts of Child Exploitation.
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  You know you should not take advice on about who to marry is
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  Brittany Stapleton. But before going to prison,
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  Brittany and Josh Stapleton enjoyed quite the successful
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  online community. They have several 1000 followers
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  and we're doing very well at growing their platforms.
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  But all of a sudden, one day he was gone.
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  He stopped showing up in their videos and Brittany was left all
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  alone to defend her husband's crimes.
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  Some odd sick reason. She proudly supports him on her
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  social media accounts. She continues to support and
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  defend her husband, who is turned on by children getting S
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  aid. I went to Oh my God, it's still
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  on fire. OK, I went in front of the grill
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  and I caught my hair on fire. I don't know what I'm going to
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  do. So in this week's episode, I
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  asked Brittany to sit down with me and to talk about why she
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  stands by his side despite the evidence, despite him sitting in
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  prison right now. As you're listening to this
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  Though, she can't go into details about the evidence she
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  claims to have that will prove his innocence.
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  She is willing to talk about their relationship, the alleged
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  crimes, well, not alleged, but the crimes he's charged of and
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  pled guilty to the hate that she endures for standing by his
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  side. And what's next for her and her
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  convicted husband? Let's start from the beginning,
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  Brittany. How did you 2 meet and and how
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  did you 2 become, you know, husband and wife?
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  So we were both State Farm agents.
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  So I was in Birmingham, AL area, Josh was in Cartersville, GA
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  area. We met from being in the even
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  though they're further apart, we're in the same territory,
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  just really good friends. At first.
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  I remember we both dated other people not unlike not crazy to
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  be friends with other agents from your territory.
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  We all chat, collab, a lot, things like that.
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  Became just friends from that and then we both went through
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  breakups around the same time. Became closer friends.
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  We were talking, we started like talking off and on thinking
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  about dating like probably six months after we both went
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  through breakups. So like we started really
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  hanging out around, I don't know, really hanging out around
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  December of 2019. And then it slowly we were off
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  and on. I mean, we lived hours apart, so
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  we didn't really think anything would ever come of it.
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  And then we hung out. We spent like 2020 New Year's
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  together, like from 2019 to 2020.
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  And then we went to Tampa together.
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  We were like, we both love to travel and we both were dating
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  people who didn't like to travel.
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  So we're like, hey, we like to travel now that we're both
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  single, let's travel. So we went on trips together.
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  So I remember one night he, me, Josh, and his friends, like his
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  friend and his girlfriend who had we spent New Year's with, we
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  were all on FaceTime and Josh was like, why don't y'all all
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  just drive down? Because we all live in the same
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  area. So why don't y'all drive down to
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  my place at the coast for the weekend?
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  We're like, OK, we might do that.
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  And then FaceTime ended. Next morning I am on a like I'm
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  out on my boat and another State Farm agent sends me the article
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  where Josh has been arrested. And I was like what?
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  Like this guy has no idea. He's just sending it to me.
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  He just knows I know Josh and I was like, this cannot be right.
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  Like this cannot be it. And it at the time it said child
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  PORN and I was like all I could think in my mind.
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  I was like, this idiot has gotten caught talking to some
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  girl on Instagram. Has to be some girl that's, you
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  know, happens to be underage. That's what I was thinking in my
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  mind. So he ends up having to spend I
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  think 2 nights in jail. The reality is Josh was arrested
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  for content involving minors. And keep in mind, this arrest
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  happened before they even started dating.
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  They were just friends, just talking.
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  At that point I was like, there's no way he would ever
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  harm anyone, whether it be a 16 year old, 18 year old, whatever.
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  Definitely wouldn't harm anyone. Something's wrong, somebody's
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  called on him, something's wrong.
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  So I remember I'd reached out and he wasn't replying.
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  Finally I messaged him. I was like, look, I have no
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  judgement towards you. I don't want you to off
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  yourself. I want to come make sure you're
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  OK. Can I come to you?
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  He was like, please do. I met him at the he got out of
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  jail. He went to the coast to get
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  away. I met him there.
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  He told me everything. I mean, from start to finish,
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  he's like, this is what I've been arrested for.
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  This is what they came in for. I'm clueless on what's going on.
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  He's like, I know, I know where this could have happened.
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  I can't say too much, but he's like I this, I promise to God I
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  didn't do this and I'll provide proof.
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  And if I were you, I would stay far away from me because this
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  isn't going to end nicely. But Brittany didn't go away.
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  She stayed by his side, stayed his friend, began dating him and
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  then eventually they got married.
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  And then he was indicted in Georgia on 40 counts, eventually
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  took a plea where he pled guilty to 20 counts and sentenced to
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  five years in prison, followed by 15 years probation.
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  I want to be clear to the people in the comments.
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  And Brittany, I'm not, I'm not breaking anything to her because
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  she knows this. And but I want everyone else to
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  know this. I don't believe Brittany.
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  And I've told you this, I don't believe you.
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  So I want people to understand that I've been very honest with
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  Brittany from the very beginning when this story first broke,
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  that I do not believe her at all.
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  And I find it really interesting that even after this, Brittany,
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  I mean, you still married him even after the accusations.
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  Let let me ask you this. Why do you believe him?
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  Why do you do you believe you might be lied to?
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  No, because I am very investigative, so I didn't just
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  take Josh's word for it. I'm not that naive.
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  I made sure I spoke to everyone, and I still have, even after
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  sentencing. I went far.
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  I mean, I went pretty damn far. I've done everything as far as
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  paying out of my own pocket for forensics.
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  You know, I've done everything. So I've seen the forensics that
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  not everybody else gets a chance to see.
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  And there's kind of have to be careful or I'll say something
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  that I'm not allowed to. But I wouldn't just naively
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  believe a guy. I mean, honestly, I have too
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  much to lose. I would not just believe
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  someone. I had to see proof.
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  I had to speak to attorney. I even asked to speak to the DA
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  on my own. Like I asked to speak to the DA
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  before I spoke to his attorney. I asked for all this evidence.
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  I've read through his entire psychosexual analysis.
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  I mean, word for word, every damn word of it.
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  I've read through that. I've read through all the lie
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  detectors. I've read through everything.
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  And my view, the psychosexual analysis was like, the lady's
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  like, I'm going to stand up for you.
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  Like I've got your back because she knew, you know?
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  So like, I didn't just blindly say, Oh my gosh, this guy's so
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  attractive. Like I guess what people fail to
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  understand is that I am aside from looks because I'm just
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  going to be honest. I'm not some ugly troll.
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  I am very successful. I am very well like mannered and
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  I'm very nice to others. I'm kind of humane, but also I'm
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  just not a dumb ass. I mean, I'm pretty blatant.
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  Like I say everything I need to say.
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  I do my due diligence. I think of myself as being
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  pretty intelligent. I opened a business at age 21.
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  You know, I've done all these things for myself.
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  I've never relied on anyone. I don't need a man.
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  There's no like, I don't need Josh at all.
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  I choose to be with Josh. But I could go out tomorrow and
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  find another guy who looks just like Josh, has triple the money
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  of Josh. If I cared about that, I would
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  have left a long time ago. I chose to put myself in the
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  fire of losing my everything I have.
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  I've lost my business, everything I've worked for.
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  And it's because I stick up for people that I know have or been
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  done have been done wrongly. But you do you do understand
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  what you just said there? You understand why how that
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  comes across, right? Yeah.
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  And so. And I'm just being candid
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  though, like I, I think because so many people, I see the
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  comments that say she's with him for money, she's blindly in
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  love. And it's like, I just want to, I
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  have to watch my mouth, but I just want to like really like, I
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  could move on tomorrow if I wanted to.
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  I choose to stay because I know the truth and I stand up for
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  what's right. Like I stand up.
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  I'm loyal to those that I love. And this is where Brittany
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  becomes a target herself because of the attitude she carries
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  while defending her husband. It comes off as if she's
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  dismissing victims, specifically the victims in his case.
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  Let me ask you this and, and, and again, we can't go into
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  details, but the, the truth is there are victims to this story.
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  There are. How do you how do you process
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  process that in your mind? I would be out there in advocacy
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  programs today. We would have done it five years
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  ago. We were we asked multiple times
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  to be in advocacy programs because it's sick.
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  Listen, the day that the day that Josh got the indictment,
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  three years later, I remember us just falling to pieces, like
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  reading detail for detail. I think people just think that I
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  would, that I just brush those charges off.
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  I'm disgusted. I, you know, I would never want
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  a child harmed. I would never want anyone
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  harmed, an adult anyone, but especially children.
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  And I think that people just blindly assume that I am OK with
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  it. And I would never want that.
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  I would never allow that. I would never have anyone in my
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  life who were capable of that. Because you have to think, at
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  the time I had very young cousins and a 15 year old
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  sister. So I would never in my life
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  surround myself with someone that would harm children.
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  That's sick. But there's just one problem
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  with that, and Brittany knows this.
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  If her husband is innocent, then why plead guilty?
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  Naturally, you plead guilty. His attorney advised him to
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  because he said if you don't, they're going to put you on
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  trial and you'll be facing up to 20 years.
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  And Josh wanted to plead not guilty.
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  I mean, yeah, he wanted to plead not guilty.
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  And I said, listen, five years or 20 years, I'm at the time,
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  I'm 31 years old. I mean, think about it, that's I
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  would be 51 and he would be 59 or I would be 51 and he'd be
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  like 59 by the time he got out. Like am I supposed to waste away
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  my entire life and just be, I mean, he wanted to, but I'm just
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  being, I was just candid with him.
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  I was like, do you want me to waste away all of my years for
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  you to sit in prison for 20 years when the chance?
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  I mean, they're like 5% of people are actually like go to
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  trial. Most people don't go to trial.
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  Usually a lot of people plead not guilty to get out on lesser
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  time. I'm going to give you a scenario
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  and you comment however you feel.
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  Is it possible that he didn't want this to go to trial because
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  pleading guilty, the evidence doesn't come out?
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  Is it possible he didn't want it to go to trial to hide what he
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  actually did? Well, if he did it, I would I
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  would agree. But no, he that's not at all
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  that he was OK with going to trial.
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  His attorney overly advised he was like, I wouldn't do that.
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  You're going to, they're going to waste all this money on this
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  trial. You just need to do a non guilty
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  plea. You know, his attorney down to
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  the last minute also had us not thinking he was serving,
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  thinking he was not serving time.
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  And I mean, I will say the judge even told us had this happened 2
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  counties over in Jones County or wherever, you'd be out on
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  probation, whatever. I asked Brittany if her husband
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  was fairly represented that if the advice given to them by his
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  attorney was the right advice. I don't want to put you on the
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  spot, but do you feel he was fairly represented?
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  No, absolutely not. No, we've stood by that.
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  I, I think, listen, I don't think that it was malicious
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  intent. I think that this attorney was
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  originally paid 5 plus years ago at this point.
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  Josh was arrested in April of 2020.
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  We went to trial on what, June? We're not trial.
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  I'm sorry. I went to sentencing in June of
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  2025. I think he was just ready to
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  throw this because I was driving this man crazy down to the wire.
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  I mean, like all the way down to the final minute, I was driving
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  this man crazy. And I think he was just ready to
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  be done with it. And if I'm being honest, I do
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  think that there was some correlation between him and the
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  DA. He's he's been ADA before and we
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  found it, we found out a lot of things afterwards.
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  So yeah, I don't, I don't think he was.
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  He was fairly represented at all.
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  Brittany isn't afraid to stand up for herself, and she does so
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  in quite the brash way. And that attracts controversy.
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  And the online community has been relentless at going after
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  Brittany Stapleton. I'll say this, if I were on the
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  outside and I were you or anyone else looking in and not knowing
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  the things I do, I would be like, that girl has lost her
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  mind. I would wonder.
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  I would probably wonder if there was more to it.
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  But yeah, I mean, at first glance, I would think that I'm
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  full of, I mean, I even said that to you.
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  You know, I think I would think that a lot of people, they push
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  it too far. And I think that at least I'll
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  at least say this about you. You have not been out there
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  accusing me of doing anything. You haven't been out there like
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  some of them saying, Oh, well, Brittany was looking at images,
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  too. Brittany was doing things like
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  that. I think that when they go that
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  far, they're really pushing it. Like to an extent, they can say
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  what they want to say about Josh's charges.
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  He's been convicted. They can say all they want to
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  say about him. But to like put me into it and
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  say that I would ever harm a child or look at images of
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  children being harmed or anything like that, that's just
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  pushing it. I mean that's that's so far
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  fetched. Listen, you kind of embrace the
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  drama a little bit, don't you? Yeah, I used to not be like that
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  either. Like if you go back to our page
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  beforehand, you would probably never see anything hateful about
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  anyone ever. But when they came after my
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  career, and, you know, I had a massive career to uphold too.
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  So whenever all this came out, I had to watch what I say, what I
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  said. And, you know, I just don't play
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  when it comes to people. I'm not.
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  I'm not playing with people anymore because no one has the
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  most perfect past. To be honest.
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  I don't have anything they can come after.
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  If you, you can say so many things about me, but it can't
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  get much worse than being known as being a pedo.
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  So it can't get much worse. So I just like, I don't care.
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  I just go after people now if they come after me, if I can
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  deal with that every day, wake up immediately, look at my phone
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  and be just getting destroyed every day, then you can get
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  through whatever hard time you're going through.
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  And that's been my biggest thing.
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  And you know, the messages I get every morning when I wake up on
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  top of all those awful ones are really good ones like, hey, you
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  inspired me to get up, do my hair, do my makeup so that I
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  would feel better about myself and keep going.
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  And I'm like, those are the ones that matter.
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  Those are the only ones that matter.
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  The rest don't. But what what about those
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  children that go through this? You get what I mean?
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  Like I guess my question is, why is he worth it to put him above
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  the children that go through this?
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  Does that make sense? No, that's a great question.
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  He no one is worth going through that for.
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  And I think if anything, that's why I wouldn't stand by someone
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  who would harm children. There is not a soul out there.
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  My listen, I always say my baby sister, if you follow me, you
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  know, is my pride and my joy. I would absolutely in her life
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  if she were involved in something that harm children,
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  like I, I mean, I, I wouldn't stand for that.
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  I wouldn't. So no, no one would be ever
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  worth anyone like defending anyone over people who harm
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  children. No one.
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  And I mean, listen, even Josh agrees on that.
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  Like we have tried and tried. We were going to join these
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  advocacy groups and things to help during, but we were advised
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  not to do that. Wouldn't be a good luck.
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  You don't want to be involved in anything that has to do with
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  children when you're going through this stuff.
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  I would do anything in the world to join advocacy groups to help
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  this, to help these kids get off the Internet, like to shut down
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  these discords and all these things that like people say that
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  they're on. That's brutal.
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  I don't want any child to be harmed.
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  So no, if I thought Josh were guilty, I wouldn't be standing
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  by. I've I've said that from day
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  one. And here's where a little bit of
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  my personal opinion comes in. I believe her husband is lying
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  to her specifically. I think Brittany believes what
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  she believes, but I don't think she has the entire truth.
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  So I asked her about that. Do you ever question yourself
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  that just maybe he is lying? The beginning.
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  I did in the beginning. I for sure did.
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  I There were times where I was, like they said, for real right
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  now. I mean, I wasn't Again, I wasn't
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  blindly going into it. I was like, I want proof of
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  this. I want proof of this.
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  I would call the attorney. I made him give me access
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  because the attorney couldn't talk to me for a while.
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  I was like, now I want access to talk to the attorney and ask him
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  everything. I want all the details.
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  And so he get, he promised that was one condition of getting
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  married. I want full access to attorney,
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  any documents, anything because I guess the indictment came
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  after we got married. So you know, that was a lot.
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  That was a whole lot for us both to take in.
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  So I just made sure I had access to everything from the discovery
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  to all the reports, everything. And you know, what's next is
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  going to be, you know, it's a lot.
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  It's a lot to think of. You know, you have to know that
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  the rest of your life, whether he's cleared of this or he's
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  not, he will always, always be known as a pedophile.
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  Brittany has accepted that her life is never going to be the
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  same again. And so that makes you wonder, is
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  there a truth out there that we have yet to see?
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  There's a woman who's willing to literally sacrifice everything
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  for this man, the man who sits in prison right now?
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  Or is this just simply blind love going down a very, very
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  dark path?