Is Sherri Papini Finally Telling the Truth?

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00:00Hey, I'm a person. I'm here. I get to use my voice now. I get to participate in the process

00:05now because I'm free. And why not? Why not?

00:15For nearly a decade, the story has ran without me and without my voice. And I've watched it.

00:22And there's a responsibility on my part as well. You know, I've watched it spin out of control

00:28and watched a lot of facts be taken, not just out of context, but get gotten really wrong.

00:34And because I didn't speak up because I didn't have a voice and watching all these stories run

00:39without me, the only way to meet it is to be head on and be transparent and continue

00:45putting myself out there, you know? And now I really, I'm working with Tim's story and I'm

00:53working on rebuilding my life and I'm working on continuing to try and take this mess and make

00:58some kind of a message out of it. If that's, if, if, you know, that's even possible. Cause I've had

01:04some really bad interviews. They all haven't been good. So it's really just about, I feel proud of

01:12what I did in the film. It's about continuing to just be authentic and be out there. And if somebody

01:18doesn't like it, you're not going to be liked by everybody and certainly not going to be believed

01:25by everybody. And I understand that, but it's time to participate in the process. You know, given when

01:31you have someone that's experienced trauma in their childhood, it can go two ways. It can go

01:36in a way that, um, you know, you might not want to be a parent, or it can go in a way where you really

01:43learn all the things not to do. I feel like I learned a lot and I have a very deep understanding

01:50and a better, much clearer and better relationship to my childhood trauma. And so that gives me these,

01:57um, this foundation of how to emotionally support my children. You know, I taught them growing up a lot

02:03about emotional intelligence, which is not something that I necessarily had, um, growing up as a child.

02:09And I really immersed my kids a lot in learning about emotional intelligence. And, um, so I feel

02:16like it's, it's been a cornerstone of my parenting. You know, I learned a lot from my childhood of

02:23what I knew was deeply traumatizing. And I think the main thing with my kids is I,

02:31I raised them in a way that, um, it's a very open environment. There's no secrets and there's no,

02:40um, you know, I don't neglect my children in any way. I give them a lot of open space. And when I

02:45still had custody of them, we had this routine of nighttime before bed, I would alternate each day

02:51with each kid. And it would be like the judge, the no judgment space where they could tell me

02:56anything and we could talk about anything and they could cry and they could be angry and they could

03:02have that environment where, you know, mommy's not going to judge you about anything. Because I think

03:07what you want to do as a parent is you want to be that safety for them. So if something happens, they

03:13come to you for that and not go somewhere else. And I really became that for my children. And, um, you

03:21know, I didn't imagine that it's very difficult being without mama now.